What Is Mental And Emotional Health?

      What is mental and emotional well being? Well its when you are usually both mentally and emotionally stable. So basically your not having emotional breakdowns everyday.

       Mental and emotional well-being is essential to overall health. Positive  mental health allows people to realize their full potential,cope with the stresses of life,and make meaningful gestures or contributions to their community.

     



 







If you are having breakdowns everyday or if you just want to improve upon your mental and emotional well being I suggest reading on. 

       Positive mental and emotion health relies on many factors. This is what I would recommend doing to improve or ensure that you're mentally and emotionally healthy.

      First off create or insure that you have healthy relationships with family, friends, boyfriends or girlfriends. Healthy relationships are a vital component of your health and well being  There is compelling evidence that strong relationships contribute to a long, healthy, and happy life. 

     

   Research shows that healthy relationships can help you live longer, make it easier to cope with stress, and become healthier. According to Dr. James Martin from the Academy of Family Physicians, families who balance their time more effectively have better overall relationships, and consequently better health.

    On the other hand unhealthy relationships can cause depression, a decrease in your immune system's functionality, and even high blood pressure. Also, the health risks from being alone or isolated in one's life are comparable to the risks associated with cigarette smoking and obesity. Research supports the idea that a lack of strong relationships can cause multiple problems with physical, mental and emotional, and spiritual health. The research is clear and devastating: isolation is fatal.        

   Sorry to end on such a negative note but anyway... In conclusion,mental and emotional well being is important to to live a healthy life. When you isolate yourself from others or have negative relationship it can cause countless problems to your health and people around you. But,with healthy relationships great things will happen such as better health, improvements on social skills and self-esteem, and your friends and family will think you are great. 

Sorry not great at drawing on the computer :)

  Speaking of (or writing of or reading of whatever works for you) social my next post will be on social well being. Thanks for reading :)

P.S. All of my drawings were created using the app didlr (yes that's how you spell it). Also follow meon Facebook AdventureGirlGiiGii

What Is Health?

        So you want to learn how to live healthier do ya? Lets start off with a simple question. What is  Health? Well c'mon, what is health? I'll hand it to ya, its not easy to answer this question correctly. 
     
      Don't feel stupid, even I couldn't answer this question at first. Now don't go looking it up on Google, that's what I'm here for.
   
     The answer I was looking for is that health is a state of complete mental and emotional,  social, and physical well being and not based on infirmity or disease.                                                                                                                                                                                Some may answer the previous question as "Health is having balance throughout your life".

    This is partially correct for I envision that a healthy person should have a lifestyle composed of pretty equal shares of mental, social,and physical well being.
    
    But then again I would not say that to be healthy these "shares" always need to be exactly equal. Everyone of us has our bad days or everyone in a while we eat junk food. This doesn't mean that we are unhealthy, just normal. So don't consistently strive to be perfectly healthy,then people would think you are weird :). Just read the blog and you should began to share these ways to be healthier with your family andfriends. 

   Well to make it easier In the next three posts I'll break down how I envision a healthy lifestyle into three parts. Just imagine a health triangle ( if your imagination does not seem to be working look at the terrible drawing i have created for you below).  The triangle is in fact the best shape due to how its equal and has three sides (obviously) for mental, social, and physical health. In the next post I will start off blogging about how important it is to have mental and emotional well being included in your healthy lifestyle (or triangle).

Its Never Too Late To Start Living Healthy (Introduction)

     You might ask yourself "What is healthy living exactly? Most students around the country are taught about healthy living at school, but usually don't take it seriously. Students think "oh, as long as I don't eat junk food everyday I'm being healthy". This is so incredibly wrong. Students around the world haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what healthy living is. However, it is never too late to start living healthier.