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Mental Health and Spiritual Living

By Dr. Sheena - November 07, 2023

Spirituality and Mental Health Contents The Modern World Spirituality Link between Spirituality and Mental Health A Mutually Beneficial Relationship Mental Health Disorders are not Life Style Disorders Symptoms of Disturbed Mental Wellbeing Bottom Line The Modern World The world had a history of believing the earth was flat, once upon a time. It had even believed that earth was at the centre of Solar system. Science based expeditions have grown far and wide and evolved over centuries to prove multiple dimensions of unseen but existential and potential truths of world such as radio waves , photons, viruses, microbes and many more around us. The internet which is a network of all the computers across the world connected through a network of wires, cables, optic fibers or the Wi-Fi radio signals is just an example. Science and technology has imparted its own contribution in developing the quality of one's life ( such as Artificial Intelligence o...

14 Ways to Overcome Boredom in Children

By Dr. Sheena - April 02, 2023

14 Ways to Overcome Boredom in Children Perceiving Children as an Open Book Children are always energetic and enthusiastic. They always want to explore new things and idea. They are innocent as well as open minded too. Children and tweens are curious about new toys, games, making new friends, meeting new people, enjoying jokes as well as telling and listening to stories. As technology is available at finger tips along with gadgets, children are free to explore the news and technological updates happening across the world. A child with average intellectual capacity can know more from educational websites and videos than they are delivered from school. They are like an open book. The blank pages in this beautiful note book has to be filled in with interesting, original, safe and relevant details as well as information . It has also to be taken care of to erase or delete any errors or wrong information and data scribbled. This is why parental supervision and guidance becomes i...

Influence of Work in Boosting Mental Health

By Dr. Sheena - January 30, 2023

What is considered as Good Work in Mental Health? Technically defining, a good work culture balances the interests of the employees, the employers and the society as a whole in order to deliver optimum performance, enjoyable and satisfying engagement as well as fairness in growth. In other words, in a good work, the individuals are productive in a sustainable manner and choose to remain in employment overtime in a healthy way. To maintain a good mental health, quality of the job and positive environment of the work culture, plays key role. Job quality and job satisfaction has proportional relationship with mental health of an individual. If one has poor quality job, there are chances that the positive mental health of the person can get tampered. Unemployment is one of the serious and major causes of deteriorating mental health among the youth of many countries. Unemployment to poor quality jo...

Aboriginals of Australia - Mental Health and Well being

By Dr. Sheena - January 26, 2023

Australia’s aboriginals are Australia’s first people who have lived the continent over fifty thousand years. It is interesting to know and learn about the methods of Social and Emotional Well Being (SEWB) religiously followed by the aboriginals of Australia. It teaches us about their holistic view and approach towards mental health. The people prefer to remain connected to their family, clan and children and find that really helpful and extremely supportive in terms of boosting their mental health and emotional well-being. Aboriginal Health and SEWB Aboriginal health deals with physical, social, emotional, cultural and spiritual well-being of the people. If any of these factors are affected, it is considered as ill-health. SEWB of aboriginals are greatly related to how they are closely connected to their family, the environment they live in (nature) and the power of choice they exercise. Aboriginals prefer the usage of the term 'SEWB' instead of the other technical medical t...

A Guide for Parents on How to Prevent Excess Screen Time & Online Gaming Addiction Among Children and Adolescents

By Dr. Sheena - December 14, 2022

There are different things to which one can have chances of getting addicted to such as Cigarettes Nicotine Alcohol Cannabis Sedatives/sleeping pills Pain killers Illegal drugs Gambling including Online Gambling Gaming (Online/Video/Digital/Application based games) Shopping including Online Shopping Eating Exercise etc. Addictions caused by substance abuse, gaming and gambling are one among the most common mental health disorders as per proven studies. Addiction affects people's thinking, judgement, emotions and behavior. In Latin, the word addiction means ''bound to /enslaved by''. Surprisingly, addictions due to gaming is the mental health disorder with the highest odds of recovery. Gaming Disorder can be defined as a behavior in which there is less or no control over gaming such that the priority gi...

The Secrets of Happiness and Enjoying Life

By Dr. Sheena - November 20, 2022

A person is said to be happy if he or she has a positive mentality towards life and its happenings. A happy person is capable of enjoying the state of being as well as have a positive approach towards life's events that are challenging. In simple words, the positive psychology of the person leads to his happiness. The scientific study of human flourishing as well as the strengths and virtues that can help an individual or group of individuals to thrive is termed as Positive Psychology. How can happiness be described? The state of feeling good along with accepting who we are and what we need to change in ourselves for a better tomorrow is the key to happiness and positive well-being. A person's happiness is correlated with various fields which affect his well being such as :- a) physical health b) work satisfaction c) social connectedness d)...

Ten Steps to Overcome Stage Fear

By Dr. Sheena - October 03, 2022

It is always a state of chaos to many when they even think about speaking something in public or presenting a piece of their official work, artform, project, research outcome etc. It has always been spoon-fed to us from childhood that performing or presenting yourself in front of an audience is something to be scared of or anxious about. Making someone over-conscious about this process along with the unseen fear of something horrible going to happen, has resulted in many withdrawing themselves from speaking confidently in front of a group of people. Causes and Symptoms of Stage Fright :- Researchers claim that this fear of facing an audience generally termed as 'stage fright' can be correlated to its ancestral constitute - 'the fear of darkness'. Tracing back to ancient times of stone age, cavemen who hunted ferocious animals in the daylight had to fear the atrociousness of those creatures who could attack and kill them out of ...

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