Individual mental health is intimately connected to physical health and social and collective health. Without healthy minds, we cannot flourish and participate fully in society.
What is mental health?
Finding an inner source of well-being that we can rely on independent of the changing external factors that impact us.
The School of Life has a whole suite of beneficial articles addressing many mental health questions and concerns that we may have.
Mental health involves connecting to others so that we do not feel isolated. It can also involve recognizing that we are not the only ones facing difficulties. Practicing open vulnerability by sharing our difficulties so that we can connect with others who face similar challenges and who can support us along the way. By recognizing the challenges others face, we open to compassion for them as they work with their own difficulties.
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Ideas
- connection with others
- meaning, values, purpose
- meditation & why meditate
- chronic dopamine deficit
- balancing joy and compassion
- Christina Feldman’s notion of resourcing ourselves.
- When we are well-resourced, we are able to be of service and benefit to others. If we are severely lacking resources, time, care (or even if we are imagining we are lacking) we cannot be of benefit to ourselves or others.