Mental & Spiritual Health (Finding a Balance to Life)

Mental ill health as defined by modern medicine is mostly caused by some kind of imbalance, be it hormonal, chemicals, or damages to the nervous systems. I am not a doctor, nor a psychiatrist or psychologist so my knowledge of that is limited. As the years go by, I am sure more and more mental disorder will be categorized. What we consider as normal may soon be categorise as abnormal. Categorizing more and more abnormality might or might not help sufferers.

Personally, I think some cases of mental ill health are caused by emotional and relationship break down thereby causing extreme stress. Our minds are able to take some stress but over time when such stress are not relieved or balanced up, there will be a break down. And we will do silly things like going into drugs and alcohol abuse for relief or we may go onto excessive eating spurts. On the reverse of it, some may go into involuntary fasting, such as in anorexia. I personally believe that we are not just flesh and bones. We are make up of the body, soul and spirit. The soul is where the emotions, willpower and mind resides. When the body, soul and spirit is out of sync with each other, all kinds of ill health (not only mental ill health) occurs.One other personal belief I have is that there are unseen dark forces which modern scientific minds cannot comprehend. I have seen mental and physical illness caused by such unknowns, which medically cannot be explained.This I will call it as spiritual illness.How to avoid mental and spiritual illness?

Living a balanced lifestyle is my recommendation.

As I have said above, the sum total of a human being consist of a body, a soul and a spirit. All these elements together, I believe make us into human beings. So each of these parts must be cared for. We cannot feed our soul with material needs, neither can we feed our body with love. Rather our well being is dependent on a balanced diet for the body, soul and spirit.

Our spirit need nourishing by being connected with our Maker. Only God can feed our spirit.

Our body need balanced nourishment, too much of junk food is harmful. Eat well and sensibly.

Our soul needs feeding with the right stuff. Feed it with beautiful and positive thoughts. That means we mix with the right kind of people too.I am sure you will be asking more about 'how to'? More of how I would do these things in another time in another article if there is interest for discussions here.