Mindful Affirmations

 

        In psychology, affirmations are short, positive statements used to challenge negative thoughts, build confidence and improve mood and resilience. Affirmations are more effective when they feel authentic and reflect core personal values, providing simple yet powerful tool for shifting mindset and fostering emotional well-being.

          When practiced regularly, making you more receptive to positive thoughts and behaviours. The studies suggest that self – affirmations can decrease levels of stress hormone which helps to reduce anxiety and improve emotional stability.

          Consistent use of positive affirmations helps to establish new, positive neural pathways, fostering a more resilient mindset especially in stressful situations. Affirmations help people to maintain a positive self – image, particularly when feeling threatened or overwhelmed by allowing them to reflect on their sources of self worth. When we practice affirmations regularly it can activate the brain.

          Consistency and regularity improve our mood and  balance our temperament. Research shows that affirmations  by activating brain regions, involved in self processing and reward, helping to reduce stress and anxiety by more healthy decision making.

          Affirmations are most effective when they feel authentic and reflect core personal values, providing a simple yet powerful tool for shifting mindset and fostering emotional wellbeing.  

Mental Health Emergencies

             On the occasion of world mental health day, I am publishing this article to everyone who have good mental health and also addressing the people who are taking professional mental health help. The theme of the year is access to services mental health in catastrophes and emergencies.

In everyday life, we face many challenges, but in emergency situations we need more emotional support than ordinary or regular day to day life situations.

Counsellors and psychologists should be appointed in hospitals and various health care centers. The situations of burn out should be handled in proper way and on the emergency basis.

Access to mental health services are often disrupted due to damaged facilities, staff shortages and surging demand. There is no instant services available so burn out happens.

To avoid burn out, one should take help of professionals on the regular basis. The burn out is a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress, overwork and lack of balance in life.

It’s a growing concern globally, affecting individuals due to their professions. We have experienced such situation during the major pandemic of COVID-19. During that period we got psychological help by mental health professionals. In many cities online help was provided by psychologists effectively. It proved to be very useful

Diary Writing

          Diary Writing is an art of Writing our experiences. It teaches us how to write normal experiences in an innovative way. Diary writing involves recording personal thoughts, experiences, and emotions in a journal, typically arranged chronologically. It can be a handwritten or digital record, and entries can cover a range of topics, from daily events to reflections on dreams or goals. 

                Everyone of us get various experiences in our everyday life. Dairy is our best friend. So we can write each and every things, anything, every little thing in it. The time of dairy Writing should be fixed. 

                We can create our own imaginary world with the help of our dairy. Dairy Writing is an art of Writing our experiences. It teaches us how to write normal experiences in an innovative way.

                Diary writing involves recording personal thoughts, experiences, and emotions in a journal, typically arranged chronologically. It can be a handwritten or digital record, and entries can cover a range of topics, from daily events to reflections on dreams or goals.

                    In a world dominated by fast-paced social media updates and digital journaling apps, the humble diary remains one of the most powerful tools for self-reflection, creativity, and emotional wellness. Diary writing is more than just scribbling down your daily activities—it's a journey into your own mind, a space where thoughts find clarity, and feelings are untangled. A diary serves as a private mirror—reflecting your thoughts, worries, dreams, and observations. It allows you to pause and process your experiences, creating a narrative of your life that's authentic and uniquely yours. Writing down your thoughts can be therapeutic.

                    Diary writing is a practice that nurtures both the heart and the mind. In times of chaos or calm, your diary can be a faithful companion. So pick up a pen, open a blank page, and start writing—you may be surprised by what you discover about yourself.

Teamwork

             Teamwork is working mutually together. It means working one or more persons at one time to achieve the spesific goal. One should form a community to do the work. Communication and understanding in all members are the key for the success of the team work. 

               It is not neccessary to have more people at a time. Our mind - body cordination, decision making and taking actions accordingly can also count as teamwork. Cooperation instead of competition make sense to do the work more peacefully. 

I think there are some key aspects to teamwork they are explained as follows. 

Key aspects of teamwork:

Collaboration: Team members work together, coordinating their efforts and sharing information. 

Shared goal: The team has a common objective that they are striving to achieve. 

Interdependence: Team members rely on each other's contributions and skills. 

Communication: Effective communication is essential for sharing ideas, providing feedback, and coordinating activities. 

Cohesion: A strong sense of unity and shared purpose within the team. 

Trust: Team members trust each other's competence and reliability.

One should adopt and implement these aspects in our real life situations.

Commitment

                     Commitment is a desire or intension to continue relationship in the future. Commitment with loyalty, faithfulness, living up to your words, hard work and giving your best efforts. Commitment means preserving relationships.

                Successful friendships require some amount of work. This means spending time and energy, maintaining closeness and working through the inevitable conflicts and problems that arise in long term relationships. Close relationships also require some degree of personal sacrifice and compromise of individual. 

                Our most satisfying relationship will likely to involve all characteristics such as, knowledge, trust, caring, interdependence, maturity and commitment. If we view these six features as ideal standards then the degree of intimacy and closeness might be evaluated according to the relative prominence of each characteristic. It's important to recognize the diversity of relationships. Interdependence is the must characteristic in a relationship. 

                There are some strategies to cultivate commitment 

1. Set clear goals - Define what you aim yo achieve. Clearity provides direction and purpose.

2. Develop a plan - Outline actionable steps to reach out goals. A structured approach enhances focus.

3. Stay consistent - Regular effort,even in small tasks lead to significant process over a time.

4. Enhance challenges - View obstacles as opportunities to learn and grow. Resiliance builts character.

5. Seek support - Surround yourself with individuals who encourage and hold you accountable.

            Commitment isn't just about promises. It's about consistent action, resiliance and the willingness to push forward even when challenges arise. Whether in relationships,  career or personal growth, true commitment requires patience , descipline and belief in journey. 

Magic of Habbits

             Magical habits are intentional practices that infuse everyday life with wonder and positivity, promoting creativity, mindfulness, personal and worthy growth.

                Inculcating good habits in ourselves is a long process. Motivation is that what get you start. Habit is what keeps you going. Motivation is basic of inculcating and keep going with habits. Habit is a pattern we follow to achieve our goal. Habits make our path easily visible. Habit is a platform where one can develop oneself towards a great extent. Inculcating habit is not a goal, it’s a process. Developing positive or good habits help to promote regularity and stability and leads to more predictable and stable routine.

                When we put the time and effort into establishing new habits, we open up world of opportunity for ourselves. We will have more time on our hands to do what we enjoy, be more productive at work, accomplish a number of goals which are set by us and much important for us. We also gain different level of confidence in our personality as an effect of the habits on ourselves.

                Our habits shapes us. Good habits can make us productive, bad habits can be harmful for us which wont let us to achieve anything in our life. Everyone of us want to lead a smooth life that can be achieved with the efforts of good habits. Each person has their own enjoyment but the ultimate fun of tracking our habits is where we cross check our progress, the changes through different metrics.

                Many a times, we are very lazy to get out of our comfort zone. We overestimate or underestimate our energy which can be used in much positive way. Many a times we feel that when we achieve big things then only it is visible but that’s not the fact. If we change a small thing or habit in ourselves it creates much bigger difference with its consistency…

                   When we attempt to do a new task, it takes a lot of our attention and thus it requires a lot of brain power. Every time we repeat that task, our brain tries to optimize the process. If that task is repeated enough time, brain will create a fixed optimize algorithm to perform that task to that it doesn’t need to spend more energy in thinking.

                    Willpower is one of the important factor which also lead to persue a positive habit. Designing personalized habits need to study first about the personality traits of every single person particularly one at a time. While developing habits one has to choose it wisely and should always stay positive while inculcating those in our personality.

                    Many times we think that when we want to change our life, we need to change much and think big for that. But there is one another way discovered to get change in our personality and our complete lifestyle. Everyone of us has a variety of habits, some of them are good and bad for personal mental and physical health. When we want to inculcate some or the other habit in ourselves, we need to break it down in some small pieces. It has also one scientific reason behind that, which is real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decision taken in a right pathway.

            Finally, we spend time working hard to establish the good habits that we have decided till now.

Self - Talk

                Everyone of us need a place to express and explain our feelings in one of other way. Sometimes we have someone to talk and rely upon about certain discussions. But sometimes, we did not get that company at earliest and urgently we want. So we have to create our own company with ourselves. 

             Self talk is one of the great ways to have a company with self. Self talk is really very important from the aspect of stable and wealthy mental health.

             Self talk also can act as a therapy if we use it in a proper therapeutic way. One cam analyze own thoughts and then come to the conclusion with the help of self talk.

            Self talk should always be positive but it cannot get executed due to some or the  other reasons. Self talk also contains positive affirmations to our own self.

            Positive self talk makes a person feel good about themselves. It can encourage and motivate a person to keep going, look on the "bright side". It is one of the type of intrapersonal communication. It means conversation with oneself. Self talk helps in problems solving, reasoning, planning, motivation and attention.

            The way that you feel you treat yourself, talk to yourself, you have to made yourself  can impact your overall mental health. It also help us as coping strategy and a stress buster too. It is effective stress management tool which helps to correct negative thoughts too.