MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH

MENTAL/EMOTIONAL HEALTH

Mental/Emotional Health: The condition of a person’s mind and the ways they express feelings.  

Target: I will be able to explain the key components of mental-emotional health.

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4 Components of Mental-Emotional Health: 1. Learning- Increasing your knowledge will increase your coping skills, self-confidence, awareness, and self-perception.

2. Self-Intuition- Being attentive to your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, whether positive or negative.

3. Spiritual Health: Being able to cope with stressors in life and finding meaning and purpose in the things that we value.

4. Stress Management: Appropriately dealing with the ways our bodies and minds cope with life changes.

Tips for Dealing with Stress: 1. Get some sleep 2. Focus on your strengths 3. Get physically active 4. Do things that make you happy

5. Talk to someone 6. Meditation- thinking deeply or focusing one's mind for a period of time as a method of relaxation.

Summary:

MEDITATION REFLECTION

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Mediation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX9iZWtCwQo&feature=youtu.be

Reflection Questions: (answer the questions in thoughtful detail) 1. How did it feel to meditate?

What did you like or dislike about it? 2. At what part of the meditation did you feel most relaxed?

And what do you remember about it?

*USE GOOD GRAMMAR!