Health generally shows in an attractive vital and friendly personality expressing optimism, spontaneity and a keen interest in life.
Physical Health is apparent when we are free of disease and unrestricted in movement.
May
10
Depression is as a term commonly used to indicate stress, fear, frustration or unhappiness to imply a negative and possibly serious state of psychic hopelessness.
It is our own personal adventure to find out what we can do to help ourselves when we are feeling out of sorts and wish to restore the well-being which envelops us when we feel in tune with ourselves and life in general.
May
8
In our modern and comparatively recent science of psychology, the mind receives full focus of investigation. Inevitably the emotions, the brain and the actions or behavioural patterns are also involved as we search for understanding of the human psyche. However, there remains a missing ingredient that is required to make sense and to co-ordinate all that we learn as we study the relevant mechanisms and processes…it is the location of the directing centre of intelligence that utilizes the mechanisms, that is the individual human soul.
Our science studies in detail with ever increasing fascination, the locations of the organ of the brain and how communication is effected between brain and the body, brain and our emotions, and the brain that processes thought. A great deal of information has been gleaned.
May
6
We would all like to think of being able to retain all our mental faculties as we age. This includes the subtle faculties that are less easy to define, but that nevertheless play an important role in our inner life. As well as all the obvious benefits of keeping a healthy, balanced body, our psychological health is needed if we wish to preserve both the faculties that allow us to function in the physical world and the subtle faculties that preserve the life of the mind and consciousness.
Whereas our general mental faculties help us to relate to the material world, our subtle faculties provide us with such qualities as insight, intuition, and the inspiration we need for mental creativity and also for our own integrity. These are faculties required for both the creative arts as well as for our use in the creative processes of our daily life.
May
6
Depression is becoming so prevalent a psychological condition in the community suffered by thousands who are finding that their lives are becoming clouded instead of joyful. They begin to worry over everything and suffer anxiety that produces great discomfort and often some embarrassment. If they seek medical help the doctor will most likely prescribe ‘anti-depressants’. This would seem a reasonable title and to promise an appropriate remedy but in fact it may be that these drugs actually exacerbate the inherent problem and symptoms.
Those suffering minor depression may seek for the right avenue of self help and determine to control their moods through positive thinking, or through the soothing influence of music, or taking up a new hobby, or by positive self talk and affirmations that will swing their mood. Women find various ways such as massage therapy and beauty treatment or buying a new frock seeking to relieve passing depression. We all have our own manner of lifting our spirits.
May
1
Along with a great deal of medical information regarding the effects of chemical substances detrimental to the brain we are faced with the recognition that alcohol has perhaps the highest proven status in the category along with a growing list of drugs still under investigation.
Evidence of the power of alcohol is before us all in society as we witness the altered changes in behaviour towards aggression and not only temporary damage to our youth, but long term and the possibility of considerable irreversible damage to their brains. The destructive influence of alcohol upon personality and behaviour become obvious in all alcoholics, but only recently has the extent of damage to the brain itself become clear as scientific medical evidence reveals.
