Improving Emotional Health
We want you to improve your emotional health, but to do so, you may need to utilise tools and tactics that you have never even thought of before.
Below we have outlined five simple ways for you to improve your emotional health on a daily basis.
Remember it’s these small actions over extended periods of time that will create lasting change and huge impact on your life.
5 ways to Improve your emotional health:
1. Identifying personal strengths: we all have aspects of our personality that work well for us and make us special, you need to understand these and utilise these daily.
2. When faced with challenges, see them as opportunities: everyday you’ll be faced with challenges, some small and some life changing. The question is, how do you look at these challenges? With negativity, pessimism, blame and frustration. Can you shift your perspective to see each challenge as an opportunity to showcase your skills, strength and resilience to life, positivity and be grateful for the lesson being taught to you?
3. Knowing who you are, what your values are and holding yourself and others to those values: If I asked you to give me your values, tell me who you are and/or what is important to you in relationships, could you definitively answer my question? The way people treat you is a reflection of how you treat yourself and also the culture you allow in your presence. If you want it to change, you need to know who you are first? Then, have integrity, by that I mean follow through and do what you say you are going to do. in your actions that magnify and personify your values and hold those around you accountable, if they (friends, family, partners etc) don’t honour this, then un-friend in real life.
4. Developing resilience - the ability to come back from setbacks: Life is going to beat you down, if you let it. We want resilience, just like you’d teach a 5 year old child when learning to ride a bike, to get back up, dust yourself off, go again. Well as an adult, you need to listen to the same advice. Their is no such thing as failure, just lessons, learn from them, grow, evolve and every lesson you learn should make you a better person.
5. Self Care - self-love, self-talk, self-esteem and self-confidence: You see the common theme in all these words “SELF”, all these have to come from within you - to hit that home, indulge my role play below.
Imagine you are stood holding the hand of 3 year old child, that child is you at 3 years old.
How would you take care of that child?
The words you use, the tonality you deliver them, the encouragement, the positivity, the love, the affection, the support, the guidance, the belief and the resilience that anything is possible.
This 3 year old version of you is your inner you.
So next time you talk to them, think and act appropriately, because their behaviour will be a direct reflection of your ability to nurture, love and care for them daily.
