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7. Pillars of Health: Time to take care of your Mental & Physical Wellbeing

Emotional health is as significant as physical health when it comes to a person’s overall wellbeing. Our mind health comprises of our psychological, emotional, and social wellbeing. This can have an impact on how we think, feel, and act on an everyday basis. Kanchan Rai, Mental & Emotional Wellbeing Coach, Founder - Let Us Talk, explains the health pillars that will help you in nourishing your physical bodies together with shielding your mental health.

Our mental health is an encircling dynamic state of inner equilibrium that allows us to communicate with the world surrounding us. It includes harmonious relationships with others, the skill to identify and express healthy emotions, basic cognitive skills, the flexibility and capacity to deal with life’s traumatic changes, and the ability to take care of our physical bodies in an appropriate way. Our mind health integrates so much more than just limiting to a disorder, an unhappy mood or having low energy. Instead, it encompasses significant pillars like upholding of physical and emotional health, cognitive fitness, and stress management.

Physical health is firmly linked to our mental wellness: When we take care of our bodies, we are also alongside nurturing our emotional health, and when we show negligence towards our bodies, we automatically fall at risk for impairing our minds.

Healthy nutrition is the key towards stress management: First-line treatment modalities for treating anxiety can comprise of medicines and therapy; however, added lifestyle treatments such as diet can have a constructive impact on mind well-being. In order to enhance your emotional state of mind, following a nourishing diet with essential nutrients is vital for a healthy brain function. Individuals who eat healthy tend to function better both physically and emotionally, feel better, and cope healthily in the face of anxiety.

Exercise and the positives on emotional wellness: Moving our body can be linked to improving our mood and overall functioning. For example, physical exercise tends to discharge endorphins and enkephalins, which are the body’s natural feel-good hormones. Over time, steady workouts are known to upsurge particular volumes of brain regions, which recovers oxygen and nutrient delivery that is beneficial for brain growth. Physical movement is also known to surge the levels of dopamine, a hormone known to upturn our ‘feel-good state’ and to facilitate in battling depression. Exercise also has an ability to lessen the odds of depression while maintaining our cognitive health as we age.

Managing chronic physical health conditions and mental health: Long-lasting physical pain often leads to more emotional and lifestyle challenges due to its duration and its impulsiveness. This physical discomfort often tags along chronic stress, which is strongly connected to depression. It has been researched that up to 85% of individuals with lasting body pain are also affected by bouts of depression. Simple yet effective lifestyle modifications like yoga, modified workouts, and physical therapy can aid in managing continuing pain while also helping to deal with anxiety.

Gut health and anxiety: Studies indicate that the regulation of intestinal microbiota can positively treat anxiety symptoms. Hence consumption of foods contributing to a healthy gut is key. Restricting highly processed edibles and substituting them with whole foods that are rich in fiber, collagen and omega-3 fatty acids can facilitate in improving your gut bacteria and indirectly uplifting your mood. These include oats, kale, broccoli, bananas, berries, apple cider vinegar, Kimchi, kefir and yogurt to name a few.

These pillars of physical and mental well-being, will enable you in building a strong foundation for an empowered life. Take a pledge to tend to your emotional state of mind to witness it as a significant aspect of your holistic health. There is no time like the present to construct these pillars to a restored mind health.