Mental Health

 

Throughout this life, an in my opinion, all human beings have a purpose, a goal, which is to be happy. However, life, circumstances do not make it so easy for us, so everything that is presented to us we have to learn to know how to take it.

Like everything in life, no one is born know, no one is born and already knows what solutions are for the different problems that this life presents us, and I am convinced that this life will end and without knowing how to solve many of the problems that we will  have at that time. Nevertheless, for that reason, and from my point of view, we should not settle for that we already have and that is resolved, but we must look for a series of tools or places where we feel safe and that help us to be as happy as possible.

To achieve that happiness and that goal, it is very important that our health is well-kept, and not only physics, which we stop most of the time, but that mental health that is equally dispensable. For this reason, I am going to talk to you about the five most important pillars of my day-to-day life in order to achieve this.

One of those pillars, and I will start talking about is the family. I think having a warm and pleasant atmosphere in our home is fundamental. If we stop to think, when we are comfortable with a group of friends, companions… we are always usually nicknamed family, because it is that refuge where you are comfortable. That is why, for me, it is one of my fundamental pillars. I am also grateful for the importance, in which my parents have educated my sisters and me, in the importance of union it, the affection and pride of all the goals we achieve together or individually, as from the support of when something does not go well, but striving to help us get everything we want. (Drawing by Pablo Rosendo).

On the other hand, the importance of a good social group. As I commented earlier from the family, I think friendship relationships are a very important pillar and that you have to know how to take care of very well. Since unlike family it is something you give, a very typical phrase says “friends that family you choose.” That is why, as in the previous one, I think a good healthy pillar of friendship, which will help you achieve that final goal that life presents and that, therefore, will achieve that mental health that everyone needs is friendship. Recognise your friends achievements, helps when the other need it, laugh, and accompany in the life process those who present themselves next to us.

To continue with the third and important to achieve that happiness of it is own to do what we really like, so in my case it is to educate. Thanks to life, I can study something I really like and that I do with affection and enthusiasm, which makes me happy. Throughout my life, I have had opportunities and experiences in which I have been able to meet and realise that this is something that really makes me happy. Not only thinking about educating only in the academic sphere, but also doing so, in the field of free time, accompanying teenagers in their process, growing with them and helping them in what I needed, being a guide. 

The fourth pillar, and very fundamental in my day life for a few years is to be aware of what surround us. Meditation is a tool that I have incorporated into my life for a few years, which helps me to be aware of what surrounds me, stop breathing and listen to what I have next to me. This tool has helped me a lot to keep my mind calm, namely, to identify what overwhelms me or is slowing me from moving forward, giving greater or less weight to my thoughts and concerns, and knowing how to value what other people were offended me. Therefore, meditation or mindfulness, even if they are not the same, make it achieve that mental health.

Finally, very related to the previous pillar, something that helps me a lot is space and music, and that space is the sea. Being aware of those needs I have, I have sought a place where I feel clam with something and myself that helps me connect with my inner self. So when I need to disconnect or when I feel more nervous, I am looking for that moment to go to the beach or the sea, put on music and relax, connect with myself.