Your mental health has a huge impact on every aspect of your life. Good mental health means appreciating your achievements and accepting your shortcomings. A mental illness can cause an inferiority complex, a negative body image, and intense feelings of self-hate, anger, disgust, and uselessness, which could mutate into extreme depression, psycho-social disorders, or eating disorders. Students with mental problems socially isolate themselves, and develop anxiety disorders and concentration problems. Good mental health ensures an all-round educational experience that enhances social and intellectual skills that lead to self-confidence and better grades. Mental health largely contributes to the functioning of human relationships. Mental illness can hamper even basic interactions with family, friends, and colleagues. Most people suffering from mental illness find it difficult to nurture relationships, have problems with commitment or intimacy, and frequently encounter sexual health issues.

An inability to handle stress or anxiety can cause insomnia. Even if you mange to fall asleep, you may wake up a dozen times during the night with thoughts of what went wrong the day before or how bad tomorrow is going to be. You may develop severe sleeping disorders which leave you exhausted and less productive. People with mental disorders are more prone to indulging in comfort eating or emotional binges. Finding comfort in food is something we all do from time to time. But with a mental illness, it becomes difficult to control yourself. Overeating can lead to obesity, which puts you at a risk for heart disease and diabetes, in addition to creating an unhealthy body-image. Your mental state directly affects your body. For example, stress can lead to hypertension or stomach ulcers. People who are mentally healthy are at a lower risk for many health complications.

Here are some simple tips and you can also do gymnastics at your home by applying them. For practicing the gymnastic it is better that you do it in grassy area and in fresh place. Otherwise, if you prefer indoor practice, there needs to be enough space in your room that you can move easily here and there.

One of the gymnastic that is easy to do at home is the head stand. In head stand you have to stand on head. In the beginning you would feel uncomfortable while doing it. But you only have to put a pillow on your exercise mat against the wall and keep your head on it and pull up your legs straight against the wall. This gymnastic is good for brain and the circulation of the blood becomes normal while doing it. And with some practice if you feel comfortable with it then just try to move away from the wall.

The other gymnastic you can do is the cartwheel. Cartwheel is hard to do. But with lot more practice you can do it easily. It depends on the hand which you use in your normal life like some are left-handed and some are right-handed. Just stand with your legs and shoulders wide apart then put your hands above the head. Try to lean slightly towards your left side then try to use that energy to propel your right hand to the ground. When your head is near the ground, first bring your left leg in a swirl position and then the right leg into a handstand position.

Mental disorders are health conditions that are characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior associated with distress or impaired functioning. This notion of a continuum sees mental health on one end as “successful mental functioning” compared to mental illness on the other end as “impaired functioning.”

Mental health is how we think, feel, and act as we cope with life. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Like physical health, mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.

Everyone feels worried, anxious, sad or stressed sometimes. But with a mental illness, these feelings do not go away and are severe enough to interfere with daily life. It can make it hard to meet and keep friends, hold a job, or enjoy life.

Mental illnesses are quite common and affect about one in five families in the U.S. These disorders such as depression, phobias, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and many others are real diseases that one cannot get away from. Fortunately, they are often treatable. Medicines and therapy can improve the life of most people with mental illnesses. But, it is more cost-effective to have a physician prescribe mood stabilizers instead of seeing a psychiatrist. However, follow doctor’s instructions on counseling and referrals to mental health professionals.

People who are emotionally and mentally healthy are in control of their thoughts, feelings and behaviors. They feel good about themselves and have good relationships. They can keep problems in perspective. It’s important to remember that people who have good emotional health sometimes have emotional problems or mental illness. Mental illness often has a physical cause, such as a chemical imbalance in the brain. Stress and problems with family, work, or school can sometimes trigger mental illness or make it worse. If you feel that you or someone you care about is at risk, ask for help, it may not be easy at first, but there are ways and steps that may save your own or someone else’s life.

Holistic complementary medicine views the soul as a part of the body that is impossible to examine or measure separately from the whole. A complete human being is the sum total of his parts that are connected together from the time of his creation until his death.

When I examine a person, I have to remember that there is no such different thing as ‘soul’. Rather there is bodily energy or a certain bodily power connected with the body itself that influences or is influenced by every event in the person’s life. From this, I have learned that every event in life has a strong impact on the body and mind, which constitute a person’s whole that is in a continual state of flux.

One of the ways to find the source’s of a problem is to look at a person as a totality of emotions, feelings, energy, and a body then to try and examine how certain feelings and emotions

are expressed within this totality, for example, if I feel sadness, what is this sadness? Where is it expressed in the body, and can I get in touch with it in order to examine its source? How can I assist it? What is it trying to tell me?

As another example we can use stomach ache. We would try and talk with the stomach area to find out what it is trying to tell us. Listening to the area that hurts can provide answers to the source of the pain: What caused the pain? How can we treat it etc.? In actual fact, listening prepares the gateway for healing. We are the body; we do not distinguish between the body parts. On the contrary, we create a therapeutic conversation which can reveal a great deal about ourselves and how we can treat ourselves. We discover that there is no single soul in any one place, rather there is a complex of feelings through all our sensory organs creating one perfect totality which is constantly changing, every moment of our lives. It is therefore this that provides the possibility for change and recovery.

My experience as a therapist, the diagnostic tools and treatment that I use such as communication, bio-energy, and healing can help me tremendously in locating the source of the problem (where it is expressed in the body), and ‘conversing’ with the body. Sometimes, the conversation itself provides immense relief, and the patient’s overall energy increases. Sometimes, this is the beginning of a lengthier process in which the sources of the problem are investigated: past cycles or dimensions, childhood, adolescence, family etc. At each stage, we can check which genetic effects or event ‘created’ the ‘energy block’ (pain, distress, or fear) making it easier to find the true source of the problem and to treat it using appropriate methods including the giving of suitable medicines.

It should be remembered that this treatment requires plenty of self-awareness and the ability to cope with the weight of emotions or feelings that surface during therapy. It does not suit all people at all stages of life since there are times when it is hard for us to cope with certain feelings and emotions. Consequently, the therapist must make a diagnosis and only use this method when he is certain the patient can be helped without coming to any harm.