Family problems, emotional problems, substance abuse, suicides and homicides have been heard from time to time, showing disturbing events of various adaptation obstacles caused by people's lack of brain power and excessive pressure in today's society.
Many people's lifestyles in life are not suitable; Psychologically, we lack effective coping skills; The biological brain function also ignores the protection and exercise of our brain, resulting in many mental health problems.
The society in Taiwan Province Province really needs to promote the way of maintaining mental health in Taiwan Province Province, which is called mental health way (referred to as strengthening health way). The connotation of this method lies in:
(1) Replace the narrower concept of mental health with a broader one;
(2) Keep your mind and build life skills free from troubles;
(3) Live with your heart and accumulate useful life experience;
(4) Form a mental health social movement in which everyone participates in daily life.
Understand the principles of mental health
The so-called mental distress is mainly caused by problems in the four functions of the brain, namely, emotion, behavior, cognition and drive, which makes it difficult for the parties to adapt to life. People with poor physique will also form mental troubles under mild pressure of life; However, people with excellent congenital constitution may still form mental troubles if they are in a stressful environment.
People live in a living world. In the process of hard work, everyone may experience different degrees of mental distress due to excessive pressure, that is, emotional, behavioral, thinking or physiological driving functions.
The principles of pursuing mental health and avoiding mental distress are: we should try our best to maintain the brain, make good use of the brain, learn life skills, increase the buffering capacity of the brain, reduce unhealthy stress, and pursue a wonderful mental health life within the scope of brain safety.
Another main principle is to detect the stress mental reaction caused by the lack of personal brain power to meet the requirements of life at any time, so as to adjust the lifestyle immediately and reduce the source of stress.
Under this principle, patients with special mental illness can establish a mental health lifestyle and improve their mental health level, so as not to cause neuropsychological and neurophysiological dysfunction, and can effectively prevent mental distress. In other words, through the management of mental health, even patients with mental illness will not have mental distress, that is, mental illness can be effectively prevented.
Mental health promotion: the road to mental health (strengthening health)
How to promote mental health? Basically, we should start with the maintenance of the brain, practice the brain and strengthen our brain structure and function. Only with a strong and flexible mind can the beautiful state of the brain be fully displayed.
If you want to live a high-quality life, you have to rely on your own efforts to pursue mental health, and you can't just talk without practice. So we must think about how to do it, or how to understand its specific methods. Next, Jing Kendo 12 drill method:
1, recognizing the limitations of brain power, and timely detecting the psychological functional response of stress;
2. Do basic exercises to calm your mind and brain;
3. The perfect way to keep your mind includes (1) regular daily life (2) doing things seriously every day (3) having at least a relaxing time every day (4) waking up in the morning full of energy (5) sleeping regularly at night (6) feeling that you have spent the whole day before going to bed (7) having the opportunity to chat with others every week (8) having the opportunity to participate in various activities every week.
4. The source of high-quality life lies in (1) experiencing that the present moment is calm but not chaotic (2) the rhythm of the day is full but not busy (3) students are concerned but not confused;
5. Find the source of happiness: care for yourself, care for others, and feel the meaning derived from caring for others;
6. Self-awareness-make good use of pressure and avoid bearing pressure;
7. Check your mental health level regularly and adjust your life in time;
8. Look at life from another angle and create multiple thinking;
9. Enrich yourself: experience life experience and improve brain function;
10, ten minutes a week, taking care of family members or relatives;
1 1, always engaged in mutual care among colleagues, relatives and friends, and neighbors;
12, strive to find their own sense of belonging, in order to strengthen the cherish of life.
Brain protection? Fu Yisheng
If everyone wants to carry out mental health activities in their lives, they must first understand their stress reactions. Because everyone's brain power is limited, knowing the limit of your brain power can adjust your lifestyle so that your brain power will not be overburdened.
Then, calm down and practice your brain's homework to protect your brain and avoid abuse; Furthermore, we should live in the present without being confused, not busy on the same day, and not be confused when we live. This kind of life that is neither busy nor confused is the source of quality life.
Self-awareness is to be able to calmly examine the rich connotation of self, so as to deeply realize the limitation of one's ability, and then to pursue oneself, reveal oneself and realize oneself. Understanding the environment means understanding everyone's different situations, living their own lives with heart, accepting and experiencing life situations, making good use of their own environmental resources, learning from each other's strengths, and pursuing happiness, happiness and happiness.
In addition, the attitude towards life should be changed from reactive, instrumental and applied orientation to empirical, purposeful and basic attitude towards life; In the content of self-thinking, it has changed from one-way, lack and insipid to diversified, rich and humorous, which makes the daily life situation dark into a bright realm.
In addition, mental health index, life satisfaction, brain maintenance activities, pathological stress reaction, mental health examination and other psychological function assessments should be carried out regularly to understand and master their mental health status in time. Can be tested online, so that you have self-knowledge and master the methods and points of mental health.
The relationship between people needs to be connected with heart. A very important exercise to improve mental health is to care for others. Modern people are so busy that they often feel exhausted when they get home. They just want to lie on the sofa and watch TV, but in fact, as long as we are willing to spend more time sharing things in our lives with friends and relatives, it can not only relieve the pressure, but also narrow the distance between us.
The specific way to care about others is to arrange 10 minutes a week to call family, good friends or good colleagues who haven't seen you for a long time. Actually, it doesn't need too many people As long as we call the people we know best every week and keep in touch with our closest people or friends, we can improve the increasingly alienated family and interpersonal relationships and enhance the sense of belonging between people.
When we take good care of our mental health, we can enter a higher level of mental health and carry out life construction projects for ourselves and society.
At present, although the neighborhood friendship in Taiwan Province Province still exists, it has been washed away. It is suggested that through the mental health experience of "sharing happiness", "sharing troubles", "supporting vulnerability" and "helping difficulties", we should actually give care to our colleagues, neighbors and friends around us. This is a life construction project of neighborhood care activities.
Suggest and encourage everyone to join the ranks of mental health volunteers in their own minds, do intensive volunteer work for themselves, serve themselves, carry out mental health activities every day, and experience mental health in depth. In this way, they can pay attention to themselves and care for others at any time and place in a life scene that does not take up time, so as to superimpose the happiness in life.
Contemporary psychiatry focuses on the treatment and research of biological brain dysfunction and psychological adjustment, and then develops into heart-brain therapy and heart-brain exercise, which are used for spiritual maintenance, positive adjustment, self-enrichment and life construction. The above 12 psychological exercises can help you maintain and improve your mental health at any time, hoping to ensure your mental health and cope with the ever-changing social environment, so as to gain rich life experience in the complex challenges of modern life and make yourself feel happy about quality life every day.
& lt The writer is the chairman of the consortium legal person mental health foundation and the honorary professor of the Medical College of Taiwan Province Provincial University & gt；;
& lt This article was published in the Mental Health Foundation, a consortium legal person, and authorized the magazine to use it. & gt
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