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5 Ways for get happiness with a good Mental Health <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Does Happiness Indicate The Your Mental Health Too? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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What makes us happy? Is it money, love or something else? What if we get what we want, will that make us happy? Exploring all this and more.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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by <\/span>Manish Behl<\/a>, <\/span> India\u2019s leading Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence expert and  TEDx speaker. Founder of Mindful Science Centre and Mindfulness India Summit , <\/span>Asia’s biggest Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Summit <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nOur lifestyle today and social pressures are responsible for this ongoing \u2018epidemic\u2019. No, I am not talking about COVID-19! The biggest epidemic we are facing in this century is that of mental health.\n\nAs per the WHO, about 25 per cent of the world population will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives. Around 450 million people currently suffer from such conditions, placing mental disorders among the leading causes of ill-health and disability worldwide.\n\nMost of us relate mental health with happiness, but do you know that even though average happiness is high in modern society yet the mental disorders are at an all-time high?\n\nLet\u2019s do a test. Think of a number: How much money do you need to be happy?  So what number or amount you thought? Now think again if you have that number would you really be happy?<\/strong><\/span>\n\nSo what\u2019s your answer, yes, no or maybe?<\/strong>\n\nMost of us are not satisfied or feel safe with how much we have. We feel if we have more money we will be more happy and that\u2019s the reason we relentlessly do things which even though we don\u2019t enjoy but feel it will get us more money, and eventually more happiness. And in this way our constant search for happiness goes on and on, very much like a dog trying to catch its own tail.\n

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\n\nHave you heard about the phrase \u2018money can\u2019t buy happiness\u2019<\/strong>? I don\u2019t really know who wrote it but it is so true. I lived in Africa for some time and found many people who were financially poor were very happy, they simply enjoyed whatever little they had, whereas I found rich people though they were living a life of affluence and full of material comfort but intrinsically unhappy and they were constantly looking for something that would make them happy, be it money, relationship, possession, looks and more.\n
We commonly mistake happiness for good mental health because it\u2019s a common perception when we are happy, we cannot be sad or depressed.<\/strong><\/blockquote>\nIt\u2019s also true that people with basic comforts feel more happiness than people living in poverty. This phenomenon is prevalent equally in developing and developed nations.\n\nBut then I asked myself, if money doesn\u2019t make us happy then what does? Also, do I need to be happy all the time?\n\nDoes happiness lead to good mental health? <\/strong> Looking deeply I have found we use word happiness very loosely to such situations when we are high on emotions or its opposite to sadness. But we cannot stay high for most of the time.\n\nWe commonly mistake happiness for good mental health because it\u2019s a common perception when we are happy, we cannot be sad or depressed. Happiness is more of a temporary emotional state, that means a person who is happy at that very moment can also become sad or depressed the very next moment.\n\nThat implies a good mental health is more important than to be just happier or richer?<\/strong>\n\nAs per data from the WHO<\/a>, developed nations are suffering more from mental health problems than the developing or under developed countries.\n\nDuring one of my online classes on Mindfulness, I asked how everyone was feeling. Lots of people replied good, okay, happy but when we started discussing, people came out openly and told how in these COVID-19 times they are feeling stressed and burnt out.\n
Many of  us are unaware of our mental health condition, and only when it starts to impact our physical health or our job do we realise how important it is to keep a healthy mental state rather than just be happy<\/strong>.<\/blockquote>\nOne should work for a good mental health as that would lead us to happiness not the other way round. Mental health is also directly linked to your workplace performance, relationship and how you see the world around you, which impacts your physical health and also your financial or economic condition.\n
The pre-eminent British happiness researcher, Lord Richard Layard, <\/strong>said: \u201cMental pain is as real as physical pain. It is experienced in the same areas of the brain as physical pain and is often more disabling.\u201d<\/strong><\/blockquote>\nTo achieve good mental health I will not suggest a big list of 100s of things to do, my recommendation is to do just five things.\n

Take Responsibility for Yourself<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nIt\u2019s our general tendency to sacrifice our physical and emotional health to achieve financial success and in this race perhaps we forget to value ourselves and later we spend our finances to regain our physical or emotional health. Why don\u2019t we do it right in the first place? What an enigma!\n\nYour self-value comes from inside, from an internal measure that you\u2019ve set for yourself and trick is to find a right balance,\n

Try doing following<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n