This guest article from YourTango was written by Kim Olver.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. We will go to the doctor for a physical checkup, but how many of us engage in a mental health checkup? The goals of my process, InsideOut Empowerment, provide us with ten things we can do to improve our well-being and increase our happiness.
1. Assess the strength of your needs while learning to obtain the proper amounts for happiness. We all have five basic human needs — connection, freedom, significance, survival and enjoyment. While we share that in common, the strength of our needs vary. So for example, one person may be high in connection and enjoyment, while another person might be high in significance and freedom. The key to happiness is to engage in behavior that brings you the precise amount of each need you want. Having too little leaves you feeling deprived and having too much can leave you feeling over-saturated.
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This article is bang on. As a hypnotherapist, I often use these same guidelines for one to experience clarity in a situation holding them back. Many do not realize they are playing the ‘victim’. What I have found is through hypnosis one gains the clarity much quicker and with absolute willingness to change. I myself played the victim years ago and no matter how many times I heard those words I still argued I am not playing the victim these things really happened to me.
So suffice to say, I do what I do now with the understanding that many cannot see the forest for the trees but are really trying hard to!
Thanks for the article.
Suzanne, somehow I missed your comment but wanted to thank you for responding so enthusiastically and thanks for the work that you do. I’m sure you help many move from being the victim to having empowerment in their lives. More people would make that choice if they had a competent guide/mentor/coach/therapist to show them the way.
I think this is so important, people may take care of their psychical health but don’t pay too much attention to taking care of their mental health. Great simple tips on how to do that. I think it is very important to find time for yourself and do things that you enjoy, be it reading, exercising, or just listening to music. You are in control of your happiness which I think is very important also to understand. Thanks for sharing!