Is mental health really on the rise or is Big Pharma looking to increase market share? You will have to do your own research in that area. We know from antiquity that mental health is in many cases based on physical dysfunction within the body. The Digestive system is one of the prime factors affecting the brain. Dehydation-pH-oxygenation integration helps keep every cell working effectively and good health flows upwards from there.

Recently I was asked to present a 10 minute presentation on solutions to “mental” stress.

Deciding what to focus on was a challenge, so many topics and issues to cover in so little time.

After much consideration I was able to identify the primary keys to making change.

Willingness to learn/change is the number one factor in self healing or healing of any kind. Without this factor in play we return to the patterns that lead to stress. Being willing to change involves recognising where we are not willing, where we hold resistance of mental/emotional pain or trauma from our past. It comes in many flavours and usually we let it slip under the radar or avoid the issue as it makes us feel uncomfortable. Read this article as an example of the past affecting the present – https://wayneelliswp.builderallwp.com/how-childhood-events-flavour-our-behaviour/.

So often we say we want change, but when the pressure is on we back away, we like to stay in the zone of comfort. The downside is we never develop beyond our overriding limitations, we stay stuck, suppressing or denying the problem.

Willingness to Learn/change needs 100% dedication and a take no prisoners approach. It’s a “never leave the battle while your banners is flying” attitude that made the Knights Templar the finest fighting force in it’s time. We need the same attitude to bring ourselves into a more healthy state.

Our Willingness to Learn/Change needs to be functioning at full volume. Sometimes we slip, recognising our rising unwillingness or that our sponge is full is important. At times we need to slow up, assimilate, recollect our thoughts before moving forward.

This leads directly to the second primary key, Napoleon Hill”s powerful insight -“Have a clearly defined goal and a burning ambition for it’s achievement”. The two fit hand in glove. If you ever watch Ibis feeding in a park or at a rubbish tip you will quickly notice nothing will seperate them from their goal of a “free lunch”. They will fly or move a short distance from their goal and when the danger has passed will return to eating. Ibis are fully focussed on achieving their goal – filling their stomach with rubbish food.

People committing suicide is also the dark side of this belief. Every person who has successfully achieved their burning ambition died. Every single one.

Most successful athletes, business people and anyone who applied themselves to clarifying their goal and dedicating themselves to it’s achievement go a lot further in their chosen path than those who simply drift. Napoleon Hill also discusses this issue in a recently released book. When we drift we are at the mercy of the winds of life.

Depression, anxiety and other so called “mental” issues are not always what they seem and you have control over many aspects of your life, if you choose to take ownership and set your own course.