Articles Related to Mental Well-being
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Life is Beautiful- Enjoy It
Backdrop: Love for life is a crucial step for a joyful living. Whatever may be the quality of life, one needs to “love it” to live happily. The law of average always works in life: sorrows follow happiness. It is always easy to love and enjoy the moments of happiness. How to love life when…
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Managing Loneliness is Crucial for Happy Life
Backdrop: Loneliness is one of the serious problems being faced by people of all ages. Loneliness is a perception, psychological feeling of being in isolation, distant from others, being neglected while even in companionship. It often happens when a “substantial gap” exists between what a person’s quantitative as well as qualitative expectations from a social…
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Mental Wellness is Key to Happy Aging
Backdrop: Happy aging is the mantra at old age. The word “happy aging” essentially means a living a life that is happy, cheerful, free of worries / problems and with dignity. There are primarily two (2) major dimensions to the happy aging for an elderly: keeping “physically well” and having an “agile mind”. Both are…
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Music is Best Companion for Elders
Backdrop: Old age is often associated with loneliness. This emanates from various obvious reasons: retirement from active professional life, distance from earlier friends / colleagues, and moving away of the sons / daughters to different places as they grow young. The elderly is thus often left alone with “span of contact” shrinking by the day.…
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A Strong Resolve is Needed for Happy and Healthy Aging
Backdrop: The concept of “happy aging” has in recent times assumed importance as a topic both for scholarly research as well as implementation in practice. The concept is now termed as “healthy & happy aging”. The first dimension is that the process of aging must be “healthy” devoid of any serious physical or mental ailments.…
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Talking is Crucial for Healthy Living
Backdrop: It is often stated that talking is living. Through talks with others, one expresses emotions, sentiments, and feelings about several things in life. A normal person in prime youth spends roughly 3 to 4 hours minimum in talking either at home or at office or with friends. The more a person talks, the more…