Mental Health and Well-Being

Mental health and well being: a step towards perfection.

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Hey fellas, this blog is all about the mental health and effects in our day to day life. Mental health is not a new concept that needs to be reflected upon but still, every day the suicides rates or even attempts towards it, has been increasing for the past two decades. This indicates poor mental health. 

The people around us might be going through some serious problems; maybe we can’t solve the problem for them but we can be there for them as a supportive friend. Even to know that they are not alone can be of great help or at least help them for refraining from such evil practice like suicide.

As it was told in the beginning, this blog is nothing about suicides but it’s all about, “how to maintain mental health” which indirectly helps in controlling the suicides rates. 

here is a video by Dr. Machael Raab on "keeping your brain young"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfu_zct4ebA

I am going to show 6 different scientifically proven simple ways in maintaining proper mental health and on which I have secretly working for the past 3-4 years of my life.

The 6 ways are as follows:

1.      Brain training.

2.      Maintaining high levels of mental activities.

3.      Meditation.

4.      Elimination of negative people from life.

5.      Quality sleep.

6.      Maintaining a proper diet and regular exercise.

Brain training

There are two different ways in brain training which includes: creating a memory palace and mind mapping.

Mind mapping:

This method needs you to correlates a specific part of a location. A good starting point is your own house because it is familiar territory. For best results, draw out the floor-plan of your first memory palace by hand, like this:

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But before you start drawing, it is recommended to walk around your house first, then, once you are done, assign various memories to various rooms.

To take it one step further, do the same thing but using objects within the same space. Fill your memory palace with everything you think is worth remembering, but make sure that you build a strong mental route in the process.

When the time to remember the information comes, simply retrace your steps along the path. It will take some time getting used to it, and surely you will fumble at first. Nobody is born perfect, and when you are dealing with cognition-impairing mental illness, it might be even harder. But practice makes a man perfect, and it keeps your mind sharp too.

    Mind mapping:

The concept of mind mapping is a slightly similar to mind palace, but it is far more systematic and two-dimensional. In-fact, it consists of a visual outline that starts with one core concept and then branches out into information that relates to it.

Some people prefer to do this on paper because they find it stimulates their assimilation of the notions even better.

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Such diagram can represent anything, from words and concepts to more specialized information such as tasks that needs accomplishing.

Final thoughts: 

The Memory Palace:

This famous approach is based on making associations between physical locations and various pieces of information. The best way to build the memory palace is by correlating them with specific spots around your home. The familiarity of the territory is prolific for this purpose.

Mind mapping:

It consists of a series of diagrams that represent two-dimensional connections between concepts.

Creating mental maps works best when used in combination with the memory palace. This activates more areas of the brain than the two would alone, thus preventing decay and enhancing performance.

Reference:

https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/brain-training-exercises-mental-illness/

Name: Alexius Thomas

Roll No: SU180021

Class: F.Y.B.Sc Chemistry