Mental Health Month

October is Mental Health Month so it’s a great time to consider, or reconsider, our approach to mental health and wellbeing – individually and collectively.

Our mental health can be tilted over it’s happy access so easily by something small and insignificant but if we’re already at our threshold then it makes it ever so large to deal with.

Do we understand the difference between schizophrenia, mental disorders, mood swings, delusions and personality disorders. I’m not saying I do but maybe this month is a good time to explore and understand what may help us to help others in times of stress and mental illness.

Not to make light of a serious illness but we can think we’re cruising along and it can be the smallest of incidents that can set us off on a trajectory of spiralling low and out of control. ????

What keeps us mentally well and gives us resilience and calm and balance?

Meditation and Mindfulness

There is so much power in the moment to learn about ourselves and tune into ourselves in the here and now to connect, to breathe, to be in this moment and to understand ourselves.

As we take time to learn about ourselves it also opens the valve on understanding the other. The time to centre and tune into the brain and mind of the body and give ourselves time to be.

Be pro-active to learn about our mental wellness and wellbeing so we build our own resilience and understanding of who we are/how we respond/react and how we can live better lives.

“Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life, perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody. That is the beauty of it. It has no technique and therefore no authority. When you learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy, if you are aware of all that in yourself, without any choice, that is part of meditation. So meditation can take place when you are sitting on a bus or walking in the woods full of light and shadows, or listening to the singing of birds or looking at the face of your wife, husband or child.” Source: Krishnamurti