Mental Health and Mindfulness By Heléna Szöllősy MRN Naturopath, Phyto-Therapist
How to practise mindfulness ? • Breathing methods • Guided imagery • Meditation • Yoga • Spend some quietmindful time every day • Find joy in simplepleasures • Live in the moment • Breathe and smile • Accept yourself • Nurturing yourself
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The development and maintenance of mental health is not an automatic process, but a diverse, complex set of tasks that must be learned and practiced.
harmony of everyday life. • What is mental hygiene? The simplest way would be to put it this way: mental hygiene is mental health protection. The term “mental hygiene” is used to describe any activity that aims to develop and maintain mental health and wellbeing.
Many people think this is a natural, self-evident activity like breathing and should only be taken care of if you stumble when there is trouble. But the human soul is such a complex, sensitive, mysterious thing - it would be • When can we call our more surprising if everything were mental wellbeing healthy? successful on its own. If we are constantly smiling from The foundation of maintaining waking up to falling asleep - even mental health and wellbeing in our dreams - are we balanced? successfully is mental hygiene No. Life is not a continuous which is on the one hand, theory celebration of joy, but rather a - science - that defines “what” and ceaseless alternation of joy and “how”, and on the other hand, sadness, sometimes a strange practice with which we realise mixture - full of pitfalls and everything that is necessary for the difficulties.
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