How should we keep ourselves mentally and physically healthy everyday?

How do we define health? Does being healthy mean to have a fit, non-diseased body? Or is the condition when we are not stressed. Or, healthy do you think is a time when we have enough money and eat good food?

The definition of healthy can sometimes be narrowed down to just a few indicators. It ends in a healthy concept in us that is too biased. According to WHO, health is defined as a state of mental, physical and social well-being that functions normally not only from the absence of an illness. This is because humans are social creatures consisting of physically and mentally. Therefore, being healthy is not as simple as our physical condition, because healthy is not only about physical, but also about one’s mental and social condition. Then how can we be healthy overall?

This article will discuss some tips that we can do to become physically, mentally and socially healthy.

1. Physical Health Sourced from the Foods We Eat According to research, health is very dependent on what we eat. In fact, the food we put in the body turns out to affect microbes in the intestine and also affects our mental health.

The terms and concepts of healthy food are familiar to us today, for example the concept of clean food. Clean food is an approach in choosing healthy foods and reducing processed foods. Healthy food will affect our physical and mental health. Therefore, awareness in choosing healthy foods and determining the type of our daily diet is very important as an effort to maintain a healthy body as a whole.

Awareness of choosing food patterns that contain the best nutrition and reducing unhealthy foods can be implemented in our choices and diet, one of which is by choosing a clean food, plant-based diet, or low calories diet. The choice of diet is known as the concept of eating vegetables, fruits, as well as whole grains that are rich in protein, minerals, vitamins, fats and healthy carbohydrates. With good nutrition, the body’s metabolism will also run according to its functions and needs so that the energy produced from the process will also be in accordance with what we need.

2. Maintaining Physical Health by Active Exercise Sport does not have to always be something we do by setting aside special time. We can also exercise while leaving for work by walking or cycling from home to office. Or, if we have other choices, yoga, swimming, jogging, running we can do it every 2 days. Active physical activity can make us feel fit, smooth blood flow from the heart to the brain and help smooth the metabolism in the body so we feel more excited. A smooth metabolism will produce hormones that will affect our physical and mental condition.

3. Having a Good Sleep Quality Can Help Improve Body Metabolism

Sleep quality reflects the balance of our body. Quality sleep helps us to maintain body balance through the metabolic process. Sleep allows certain organs to rest and other organs to work to repair a tired body during the day’s work. By having a good quality of sleep, this process can run smoothly. To get quality sleep, we can start by not using a TV, cellphone, or computer for 2 hours before going to bed, not doing strenuous exercise just before going to bed, showering with warm water before going to sleep, and setting a regular sleep schedule. Lack of sleep can cause the body’s metabolism to decline, so that hormone production and immune disruption. This can affect our physical and mental health.

In addition, we also need to learn to “listen” to the needs of our bodies. Working and doing activities all day long makes the body spend a lot of energy to support every activity we do. By being sensitive and listening to what our bodies need, we no longer force anything that is beyond our capacity as humans. When it is time to rest, then give the body a chance to rest and prepare energy for tomorrow.

4. Proper Stress Management It is Important to Maintain Health

To deal with stress in life, there are two ways, first, routine maintenance, carried out by meditation, yoga, or regular exercise to keep stress levels stable. Second, stress breakthroughs are carried out under certain conditions that cause stress. For example, to reduce stress after a meeting, we can run down the stairs or head to the bathroom to calm the mind. In addition to these two ways, we can also rethink whether the issue is important / not, after our thoughts and emotions are stable.

5. Maintaining the Quality of Social Relationships is One Way to Maintain Social Welfare

In addition to maintaining physical and mental health, it turns out that the quality of our social relationships contributes to determining our overall health and well-being. Studies show that social relationships have short-term and long-term effects on one’s overall health. The quality and quantity of social relationships affect mental health, social behavior, physical health, and the risk of death. Having quality, healthy and supportive social relationships impacts on more positive aspects of life, for example with social relationships, a person will need better emotional support than someone who does not have a good social relationship. The quality of good social relationships also affects one’s ability to cope with stress, control emotions and the need for appreciation. Things we can do to strengthen our social relationships include spending time with people (socializing) face-to-face (connecting via virtual / online is felt, especially in the long term).

Health is a condition that we need to work on. With a healthy body condition as a whole we can function as a human should, so health should not be seen from just one aspect. Healthy is not only physical and not only physical and mental, but also our social welfare. That is because all aspects of health are equally influential on our well-being as humans. To be a healthy human being, then we should strive for health to develop into a human who functions as it should.