Self-maintenance of Teachers' Mental Health _ Characteristics of Teachers' Self-consciousness

Mental health, like physical health, is the basic condition for people to live, work and study normally. Unhealthy psychology, like unhealthy body, will directly affect people's normal activities. For teachers who deal with people, their mental health will directly affect the healthy growth of the younger generation. In fact, teachers' psychology is not healthier than that of people in other industries, which is because of the sacredness and particularity of their profession. On the contrary, their mental health problems are more and more complicated. So, how should teachers keep their mental health? The author makes an inquiry from the following aspects.

First, know yourself correctly and accept yourself.

It is the characteristic of mental health teachers to know themselves correctly and accept themselves. Only by frankly admitting your own shortcomings, affirming yourself and respecting your own advantages can you gain the corresponding respect from others. Understanding and accepting oneself mainly includes two aspects: one is to make a correct self-evaluation of one's own ability, behavior and personality, to admit and accept one's own advantages and disadvantages, and not to be influenced by others; The second is the recognition of their professional roles, so as to love education and students. Teachers' affirmation of their professional roles can turn negative working attitudes into positive working attitudes, and they are not afraid of external shocks and challenges, but also bring a strong sense of mission to their work and finish the work happily and effectively.

Second, work hard and learn to relax.

The teacher's work is very busy. In addition to preparing lessons, attending classes, tutoring and correcting homework every day, they also carry out ideological and political education for students and organize students to carry out extracurricular activities. It can be said that teachers spend most of their time with students. In this case, you should arrange your spare time flexibly, leave some time for yourself to cultivate various hobbies, make your spare time as colorful as possible, enrich your spiritual life, exercise your physical fitness, nourish your mind and improve your mental health.

Third, establish good interpersonal relationships.

Teachers, like others, all live in certain interpersonal relationships. Good interpersonal relationship is the basis of teachers' smooth work and one of the important conditions for teachers' mental health. Nervous and unfriendly interpersonal relationships bring a certain psychological burden and pressure, which will cause teachers' unpleasant emotional experience and lead to a certain degree of psychological depression. Only when teachers give up their authoritative position, treat students in an equal, friendly and harmonious manner, accept students, and respect the personality of others or students without imposing their own standards on them, can they get the interpersonal help they need and join hands with others to devote themselves happily to their work and life.

Fourth, cultivate an optimistic attitude towards life

Optimism is a good medicine to promote physical and mental health. Positive and stable emotions and optimistic attitude towards life are important signs of teachers' mental health and important conditions for promoting teachers' mental health. Teachers are a member of society, so it is inevitable that they will encounter difficulties of one kind or another in their lives and work, resulting in various psychological contradictions; Sometimes it is inevitable to be surrounded by troubles and worries. If the psychology is not adjusted and channeled in time, under certain conditions, it may cause strong psychological conflicts and cause some psychological diseases. At this time, only when we face difficulties with an optimistic attitude can we regain psychological balance and face life with a healthy attitude.

Fifth, cultivate good will quality.

Teachers' good will quality is not innate, but gradually formed and developed by overcoming difficulties in work practice. Therefore, teachers should pay attention to cultivating their excellent will quality in their daily work and life. Good will quality can make teachers remain optimistic and calm in the face of various difficulties and setbacks, maintain a positive and stable mood, and calmly solve all unpleasant problems.

Six, to maintain a healthy body

A healthy spirit resides in a healthy body. Professional characteristics require teachers to have enough physical strength and energy to cope with the heavy daily education and teaching work. To stay healthy, we must pay attention to: first, actively prevent brain fatigue. Teachers' work belongs to high-intensity mental work, and the working energy of the brain is limited. We should pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and pay attention to the replacement of the brain's excitement process and inhibition process to prevent the brain from being overtired. The second is to strengthen brain nutrition. Nutrition is the material basis of brain activity, and mental work needs to consume a lot of energy, so we should pay attention to the nutrition supply of the brain; Third, strengthen physical exercise. Mental work is different from manual work. If teachers want to maintain abundant physical strength and energy in their work, they also need to keep exercising to keep themselves healthy.

Seven, learn to control occupational stress.

When teachers are under professional pressure, a series of physical and mental changes will occur. Occupational stress will affect teachers' physical and mental activities, and physical and mental activities will also affect or change occupational stress and play a regulatory role. First, actively adapt to the environment, be brave to change yourself and adopt a positive cognitive style. Everything has two sides. Positive cognition means seeing both the negative side and the positive side of things, learning to look at problems comprehensively and objectively, correctly understanding and evaluating yourself, forming a positive and correct self-concept, and fostering strengths and avoiding weaknesses. The second is to be good at adjusting emotions and mastering methods to relieve stress. For example, some teachers are stressed because they can't deal with their colleagues effectively, so negative emotions such as tension and anxiety can be avoided by improving their relationships; Another example: when bad mood has occurred, you can take part in cultural and sports activities, listen to music, take a walk, do muscle relaxation training, chat with friends and so on. Eliminating tension and relieving anxiety, long-term use can enhance your self-control ability of emotions and improve your physical and mental health.