Have You Built your Emotional Immunity in Times of COVID? Read On to Know More

The global pandemic is not only affecting our physical health but continues to hamper our happiness while disturbing our mental health. Various distress this crisis bought like the financial collapse, job losses, health problems, solitude and isolation has completely scratched our overall peace while increasing our stress and anxiety levels.     

While we all become busy in protecting our body’s immunity we totally forget about building the emotional immunity during this pandemic and that is what puts us in more stress and pressure while taking away our bliss and contentment.

Emotional health

Emotional health helps a person to acknowledge feelings and state of mind in challenging times. And if a person is emotionally healthy it becomes quite easy for him to deal with the emotions and situations and that is why emotional well-being is extremely important. In order to enhance overall health and well-being, it is extremely important to put forth and take proper care of your physical and emotional wellbeing. Your overall health can easily be damaged if your mental health is not properly aligned.

Evaluating emotional immunity

Assessing your emotional wellness time to time is as important as paying heed to physical well-being. As per the experts, good mental and emotional immunity is not about feeling happy and contented all the time but it means that you have to prepare your mind to see the positive while you are concerned or disappointed. When you are emotionally healthy, you can easily calculate your on-going problems, surroundings and any stressful situation.

Pay heed towards what exactly is going inside your brain and take time to evaluate it. Sometimes, we often forget about our mind and don’t pay attention to how the new information is affecting us which can further impact our overall wellbeing while taking us close to various pains, troubles and distresses.

Here is how you can strengthen your emotional immunity 

• Charge your mind with positivity in the morning. Stop using your phone and consume some fresh air and sunlight while seeing the positive aspect of everything in your life.
• Meditate is always a must to train your mind to see positive. Try to meditate for 15-20 minutes following by physical exercises like yoga, walking or aerobics.
• Limit your screen time as consuming negative news the whole day can easily affect your emotional immunity while making you negative, sad and depressed.
• Consume healthy and wholesome food to build both your physical and mental immunity. Try cooking therapy at home to divert your mind from negative vibes while making yourself more energetic and enthusiastic.
• Reading is the best therapy. Don’t forget to read and add some interesting home exercises in your schedule to keep yourself away from the screen.
• Nourish your subconscious mind with positive mantras and affirmative words to teach your brain to see positivity.

Footnote

Building emotional immunity during this time is extremely important. Take out some time from your schedule to evaluate your emotional immunity. Follow the above-written pointers to get effective results.