I have noticed that most of the posts here on The Health Blog is focused physical health. While aiming for a healthy lifestyle that will result in a healthy body is indeed important, I think we sometimes fail to emphasize the importance of having good mental health.
Good mental health is not just being free of mental illnesses that would require you to see a doctor. Instead, you can look at it as having the "ability to enjoy life, and create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience." In short, it is important because it is a prerequisite to being able to live your life to the fullest.
Just because you are an achiever doesn't mean that you have sound mental health. Indeed, we only need look at the number of famous people in history who have taken their ...
Do you find yourself starting to forget things more easily? Are you blaming your memory blanks on age? If so, then you just might have to get off your bum and get moving.
A new research conducted in Australia has found out that age related memory loss could be treated by exercise, at least to a certain degree. What the researchers did was to study 138 people who were 50 years old and above. The people were experiencing memory problems but were not classified as being at risk for dementia. The group was divided into two – the exercise group and the control group. The people in the exercise group were asked to engage in physical activity for 150 minutes per week. This meant three 50-minute sessions within the week.
Their findings? ...
Tags: exercise, memory, Mental Health
Are you paranoid? Studies show that the average person experiences paranoia on a
daily basis. It’s just that some people are more prone to episodes of paranoia than others. The difference in paranoia’s effects lies in how the person deals with his thoughts and feelings. Here are some tips to help you deal with everyday paranoia and NOT let it get in the way of having a healthy life.
Do not dwell
Worrying and dwelling on one’s worries is a surefire way of building up paranoia. When you have worries, allow yourself to think about them for a limited period of time, say 20 minutes in a day. After that, brush them away and deal with reality. Deal with what you ...
Tags: Mental Health, paranoia
People are now more health conscious than ever before and who wouldn't with the dozens of infectious diseases and health risks that we face each and everyday. Life has gotten a lot healthier with respect to how commerce has changed and adjusted preferences to make them healthier. More and more people are opting for the healthy lifestyle as they begin to realize the advantages of good health that can take them well after their prime.
From proper exercise, diet and living, seems we all been bit by the health bug. Mother nature has produced for us some of the healthiest and most powerful healing plants that are enough to rival a pharmacy.
Herbal cures for aches and pains have long been known to ...
Tags: Alternative Medicine, nuts
Stress is very much part of my life. I thought I realized the full extent of what it did to me. I thought that it was just normal and that it will not do anything “bad” to me. In fact, I used to take pride in the fact that I worked better under duress. Then suddenly, everything just seemed to fall apart. I would get all sorts of illnesses. I would feel bad in general. I would even get depressed and too distracted.
Bottom line: s
tress is NOT good. Too much of it can mess up your life so bad you’d wish you were never born!
The good news is that stress can be managed – for real. Even the busiest and richest person in this world can keep his stress levels down. ...
Tags: emotional health, exercise, Health, Mental Health, Stress
When most people think "health" they think in terms of heart, muscle and fat. However, one of the most important parts of our body often gets neglected:
the brain.
The good news is that the health of our brain often is impacted by the very same things that affect our bodies: the food we eat, exercise, etc. But our brains are also different: they get exercised through mental activities as well. So it is important keep your brain healthy in both ways.
Here are 10 tips to keep your brain healthy and
minimize headaches:
Tags: brain, headaches, Mental Health
It is commonplace for several people to suffer at least an occasional night of almost non-existent sleep. The causes of insomnia differ from person to person. What made a student insomniac varies from what caused a shift worker or a traveler or an employee to acquire such sleeping disorder.
Insomnia, which is the inability to sleep satisfactorily or to have any sleep at all, is one of the most common sleep disorders. It is characterized by restlessness, sleep interruptions, decreased sleeping time than the usual, or sometimes complete wakefulness.
Aside from the annoyance that insomnia can cause to its sufferers, this sleep disorder causes those afflicted to lose enthusiasm and energy, acquire memory and concentration problems, feel lethargic, frustrated, and of course sleepy. Worse cases that may be induced by insomnia is one's being prone to accidents, reduced work productivity ...
While we’re on the topic of the power of thoughts, why don’t we take a deeper look into this? I know that a lot of people think that placing emphasis on one’s mental power is nothing but drivel. Trust me – I used to lean towards that way of thinking in the past. On the one hand, I believe that we are what we think, to a certain degree at least. On the other hand, I also realize that there are certain things that are out of our control and sometimes, no matter how much we think about a certain outcome, it just doesn’t happen.
Then again, I have experienced for myself just how powerful thoughts can be. It is when I let my mind wander and think about whatever it wants that I find ...
Tags: brain power, Mental Health, positive thinking
I know what you’re thinking - you’ve heard of this before; but have you really tried to tap into the power of your thoughts? I cannot tell you that that thoughts can cure everything, but I can tell you that positive thinking really does help. Here are some ways by which you can harness this power.
Think about this scenario: You toss and turn all throughout the night because you have a presentation the next day. You have prepared for this presentation for weeks, and you know the details in and out. You have anticipated possible questions that may raised. Still, you are afraid that things might become a mess. What if you forget the words? What if you overlook a detail?
This is just one scenario, but you can very well change ...
Tags: Mental Health, positive thinking, Stress
We all know that alcohol is not good for the health, at least too much of it. Every time I think about this topic, I remember that line from an old Star Trek book I read as a teenager; something about alcohol being a poison that man imbibes voluntarily. I think it was from the book about Spock dying….
Anyhow, this knowledge has not sunk in for so many people. Even with hard scientific facts, hard drinking seems to be prevalent in many nations. There is even this recent study about how heavy drinking is the cause in 1 out of 4 cases of dementia.
MSN Health has the story:
Three UK newspapers, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph and The Guardian, reported on Monday that excessive alcohol consumption could be to blame for one in four ...
