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ISSUED FOR PUBLIC WELFARE Mental Health - Tips for Being Emotionally and Mentally Healthy There are a lot of different thoughts on what it means to be healthy. The majority of people equate physical exercise with being healthy, and eating vegetables. When people talk about getting healthy as a New Year's resolution, they usually mean getting a gym membership. Mental health and emotional health quite often have more to do with your health than anything else. Most people look at life, that their health problems give them a reason to worry, rather than the worry could be the cause of their bad health. It is good to look for information that can help you become mentally or emotionally healthier, but don't forget that professionals in the mental health field could give you a lot of advice.

Sleep is important for good health, and getting enough is a must. To keep your body and mind healthy, most people believe that eight hours is the magic number. Some people need more like nine, while others do better on only six or seven. It might take some work to find your personal magic number, but through experimentation, and help from health professionals, it can be done. When you have it figured out, make sure you take the steps you need to take to ensure that you get that amount every night. Sleeping through the night and getting the right number of hours can change the way you feel emotionally and physically.

Get your eyes off of yourself, and do something nice to help someone else. When we feel down or depressed it can be difficult to find the energy to help ourselves. Doing something nice for someone you don't even know, will not only give you a good feeling, but also raise your energy level. The easiest way to improve your emotional health doesn't cost any money, for all you need is to be kind. Just by letting someone go ahead of you in line, with a good heart, will elevate your feelings, and if you don't think it will work, try to do something nice for someone.

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Enjoy yourself in your spare time. Laziness is not something that is good to indulge in, but taking time to enjoy periods of leisure is important, because happiness is important in life or it will turn into nothing but misery. Emotional burnout is one of those things that happen to workaholics, or people who spend all of their time working without taking time for a leisure time break. You need to find reasons to be happy, and doing fun things help. Work is especially hard when you do not enjoy it, but if you have times of fun, you can survive it. The more you can enjoy the hard parts of life the better condition your mind and emotions will be in. Obviously if your emotional and mental health problems are severe, you should be working with a mental health professional. Your mental health, as well as your emotional health can be made better, as long as you are willing to work for improvement. You might think you can't do anything about your emotions, but that's not true. We can do things every day that help us feel happy, calm, stimulated, etc. This article only had a brief glimpse of what you can do to help yourself. You can choose to get help, or not, the same way you can choose what type of food you are going to eat for breakfast, and it is almost that easy to choose to be happy, if you want to be.