We’ve discussed diet and sleep, sleeping problems, sleep and digestion and numerous methods to get better sleep. Most recently we discussed sleep and energy levels. In this post, we’ll mental health and how it relates to getting healthy sleep.
It is easy to overlook this area of overall wellness as it is always more difficult to discuss those things we cannot see. However, mental health is every bit as important to achieving our best rest as any other factor.
What is mental health?
Mental health is basically your outlook or perspective; the general mindset that frames the world around you. Your individual view affects your ability to be optimistic as it is the constant filter for your everyday life.
When we have poor mental health, we find ourselves more pessimistic, negative, unmotivated, or simply incapable of experiencing true happiness.
How do we maintain our best mental health?
This is a difficult question. Entire aisles of the bookstore are dedicated to digging deeper than I could ever hope to delve in a single measly chapter. However, I can say that how you choose to view your environment greatly affects how you will view things in the future. If you choose to see everything cast in the shadow of a negative light, you will likely continue to do so. If you choose to see the cup as half full, you will find this mindset eventually becomes second nature.
For most people, barring those who struggle with clinical depression of course, our mindset slowly develops as our mental picture of the way we see our world. Though our personalities might make us more or less susceptible to a positive or negative mindset, we have enormous control over the way we think. Much more so than most of us ever realize.
THINK POSITIVE!
How we treat our brain plays a tremendous role in your mental health. If you sit in front of the TV all day, never challenging your mind, then your sending your brain on a trip to mush city. There’s nothing wrong with watching television, but everything in small doses. If you don’t balance TV with a series of other mentally stimulating activities, you will pay the non negotiable consequence of poor mental health.
Bad Habits can have a major effect. If you feel yourself engaged in certain activities that are casting a pall across your life, yet you continue to do them over and over, you are only contributing to the detritus of your mental well being. Your mind wants to feel its best, and know it’s doing as it should. When we have bad habits, we subconsciously know we are failing ourselves in some fundamental way.
It is destructive to hang onto our bad habits once we know they are there.
Find your center and find your best sleep.
If I can find my best sleep, so can you!
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