HOW TO ACHIEVE EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Emotions are an integral part of being human. The capacity to feel is what makes us human, and what connects us to one another.   So, the more we refine our emotions, the more we are able to enjoy relationships, realize our deepest feelings, manage life’s conflicts with grace and create peace.

Emotional health and wellbeing is the experience of healthy self-esteem, self-respect and resilience.    It includes the way you feel about yourself, the quality of your relationships with family or friends, your ability to manage various feelings and deal with difficulties.

Emotional health is doing your best to be proactive instead of reactive to the feelings that move through you in a given hour or day. Anger, jealous, grief, contentment and love, help you respond and interact with life and living. They have great impact on how you think and behave.

Emotional health refers to the presence of positive characteristics rather than the absence of physical or mental illness. Similarly, not feeling bad is not the same as feeling good. While some people may not possess negative feelings, they still require working out things that make them feel positive in order to achieve balanced mental and emotional health.

One can opt for following habits to be emotionally healthy -

• Be optimistic.
• Always have hope.
• Stay connected with society.
• Accept yourself as you are. Do not have over expectations from yourself.
• Express gratitude. Be thankful for what you have.
• Set your goals (Even fulfill small targets daily)
• Exercise regularly.
• Adopt mindfulness. It means that you are actively paying attention to the present moment 

Persons who are emotionally healthy have:

• A sense of contentment
• A craze for life
• Ability to have fun
• Ability to fight stress
• A meaning and purpose in their activities and relationships
• The flexibility to learn new things  
• A balance between work and play or rest and activity 
• The ability to build and fulfill relationships
• Self-confidence 
• High self-esteem

Childhood has a profound influence on how we relate to each other as adults. Many of the experiences we have in childhood leave a lasting emotional impression. So, if we are parents, we should try our best to provide our child a healthy childhood.

Nurturing our emotional health can transform our relationships. It can change the world for us.