What is Mental Health?
Mental health is the level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental problem. It is the condition of someone who is « functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment ». From the perspectives of positive psychology, mental health may include an individual’s ability to enjoy life and to create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.
Many famous people leave quotes about mental health. Lady gaga said « Individual acts of bravery and compassion can change the world. It is time to do the same for mental health. » as she said, it is the time for us to change our mind for our mental health. but how to change our mind? until now, it has been hard for human to find the best way to establish great mental health. we thought that traveling, making relationships, drinking, getting hobbies, sports would be a good way to improve mental health. but, these stuffs cannot always solve our mental problem, some stuffs make it even worse and some mental quotes said we have to accept our mind deeply and honestly but how we can meet our real mind? we don’t even understand how to make our mind deep. so, what do we need to do?
Meditation is the key solution
Meditation is the key for our mental health. By meditating, we can focus on only our inside and can meet the real minds we have in ourselves. when we get rid of our deep and strong negative minds sincerely, we can realize our inside original minds. then from that perspective, we can let go of our minds which make us anxious, nervous, sad, depressed, angry, overthinking. and we can get real happiness.
Research about Meditation Effects
Here is research about effects of our meditation for mental health. you can recognize that meditation is the perfect way to build a great mental health.
Research Date
2013/02/19
Research Title
The effects of this meditation on adult mental health
Researchers
Mi-ra Yoon (the Department of Nursing Science, Seoul University)
Yang-kyung Yu (Professor, School of Nursing, Kunsan University)
En-hee Choi (Researcher, the graduate school of public health, Catholic University of Korea)
Kyung-ah Kim (Doctor, comparison family medicine)
Research Aim
The purpose of the research is to identify the effects of this meditation on the mental health of the adults who suffer from psychiatric disorders. The research was conducted between July 2011 to September 2012, in the form of surveying psychiatric patients after attending the special meditation sessions. These sessions are specially designed to tailor the needs of the individual adults with psychiatric disorders
Results
Amongst the participants, 88.3% of them replied that this meditation improved their mental health, 44.1% stopped taking psychiatric medication after experiencing positive improvements on their mental health, and 38.2% reduced their psychiatric medication intake. This research demonstrates that this meditation can bring about significant positive improvements on mental health by eliminating the root cause of minds that create depression, anger, anxiety and many other negative sentiments. This achievement is meaningful especially considering that the dramatic improvements brought by this meditation on the psychiatric patients’ mental health can dispense their needs to rely on psychiatric drugs. Today, where mental health issues have become the most serious pain that society suffers, an effective programme that provides healing of the mind is needed more than ever before. This research strongly recommends that a good healing programme like this meditation should be actively sought by various sectors in society to overcome this challenge.
Mental Health Europe
Nowadays, in many European countries, Human Mental Health have been a big topic to every single person. many people start to think that strong mental health is the most important thing in their life. under such effect, in many societies, ‘Mental Health Day’ Campaign have been prevailed.people recognize the importance of establishing strong mental health. Many companies start to think that mental health of their employee affects effectiveness of their production.
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