5 Tips for Maintaining Mental and Emotional Health

    Mental and emotional health are often challenging to preserve in our modern-day, busy and hectic lives.
To lessen the impact of stressful wear and tear, consider implementing some of these helpful strategies into your daily routine.
Some of these tips have been also been touched upon in other articles, however this only underlines their importance.

1. Maintain good physical health. This point is so basic it's often overlooked. Our physical health affects our emotional health much more than we realize. Make sure to eat well, exercise and get plenty of sleep. As Virgil said: "The greatest wealth is health."


2. Learn to release anger and let go of grudges. Vent if you have to. Shake it off. Walk it off. Harboring anger or ill feelings builds emotional toxicity, which ultimately affects your overall health. "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness". Anonymous
   
3. Be aware. Look for the hidden message in negative or difficult situations. Learn from them. Experiencing adversity is meant to alert you to something or teach you a new skill. "Life deals you a lot of lessons, some people learn from them, some people don't." 
   
4. Keep your brain active. Don't let complacency or boredom set in. In order to feel alive and vibrant we need to keep our minds active by learning new things and challenging ourselves
5. Stimulate your senses. As well as keeping your mind active, enjoy beautiful art, listen to music that lifts your spirits or try a new gourmet dish. Our senses need to be reawakened every now and then too. "Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."