Unit 9. Mental Health
Positive thinking and peaceful behavior is developed through mental health.
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By meditating on thoughtlessness, welfare of human being is achieved.
With calm mind and sharp intelligence, a person becomes alert and attains wisdom.
Principle Content
- To live with healthy mind and to be stress free every time.
- To understand the solutions for psychosomatic diseases.
- To know the functioning of mind- maintain restraint.
- Importance of right attitude- steadiness and concentration.
Practice and Activities
- Kayotsarg - To preserve mental energy, live stress free life.
- Breath perception.
- Internal trip exercise.
- Asanas and Pranayama.
Learning Outcomes
- Smartness, freedom from stress and concentration is achieved.
- Liberation of Negative thoughts.
- Mental equilibrium and change of attitude.
- Balanced role of brain and restoration of energy.
- Increase in wisdom.
Unit 10. Emotional Health
Balance in passions and excitement, purity in emotions develops emotional health.
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Mutual trust is developed through pure emotions. Impure thoughts always destroy the noble qualities.
Principle Content
- Positive and negative emotions.
- Methods to change emotions for better health.
- Awakening of understanding - critical study of what is good/bad, necessary/ unnecessary, etc.
- Passion and impulse- to control them; physiology and Bhavkriya.
- Relation of colours with the emotional systems.
Practice and Activities
- Practise of meaningful songs affecting emotions.
- Kayotsarg
- Development of positive emotions- practice of resoluteness.
- Attitudinal Change - perception of psychic centers.
- Contemplation of emotions
- Practice of Leshya Meditation.
Learning Outcomes
- Change in nature - removal of excitement, development of firmness.
- Emotional steadiness and balance; control over passions.
- Development of neurotic power- development of memory as well as knowledge and intelligence.
- Up keeping emotional health.