Health is not always about looking physically fit and eating healthy. It is more about thinking, saying, and doing whatever makes you happy and keeps you at mental peace. Mental health and emotional wellbeing hold a valuable place in a human being’s overall wellbeing.
A good and positive mental health doesn’t always mean ‘no problems’; instead, it symbolizes the presence of ultimate internal strength and resources that don’t let the issues and problematic situations overpower. A right and optimistic mental health not only enhances your productivity but will also enable you to explore your inner potentials and build better interpersonal connections and be confident on professional fronts. And there’s no better inspiration than reading good stuff and inculcating your strength within you again. So, we have listed down some of the inspirational books that will help you in the right way:
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
The book is a fantastic creation is Daniel Goleman makes his readers aware of all the psychological responses from fear to distress. He has also mentioned a few facts about the amygdala, the limbic system’s essential part, and its vital role. It indicates the danger alerts.
These are the fundamental triggers of the human brain, and the writer has put an effort to make people realize that these are just their brain’s first response and are always going to be there. And insecurity is the most apparent mental barrier that stops people from trying their best. The writer has mentioned that no matter what these triggers are going to be there, it’s the people’s self-belief that is the key and will help people realize that they will not lose anything and help them cross all their barriers and proceed towards their better lives and goals.
Caitlin Moran’s, How To Be A Woman
Being a woman and dealing with everyday womanhood realities is challenging, and that too, when you have numerous insecurities about yourself and your intelligence. This men-centric world has made it an inconvenient place for women.
However, the writer has opened up on the daily struggles and pains a woman has to go through, whether it is a physical pain elicited after a painful abortion or the emotional stress she has to live with. She has somehow tried to vanish all those barriers of being under-confident about your existence. Almost everything she has mentioned is uplifting a woman’s spirit that she in this world is not alone, but the entire women community and her sisterhood is at her back to support her at every stage of life.
The Self-Care Project by Jayne Hardy
Self-care is the key to being entirely confident about your self-being and kicking away all those barriers you have built in your minds and stepping towards enjoying your life and achieving your goals. The book significantly describes everything about mental health awareness.
The book also clarifies that being selfish never means self-care. Instead, self-care is the opposite and will make you get reasonable control of your mood and mental wellbeing that will help you cross every obstacle between you and your dreams.
RESTART 2020 by Rishabh and Nidhi:
The book is written by two energetic and passionate writers and is all about guiding people about life and its challenges. The book relates the life journey of a human being with a machine’s working and explains that the more fuel humans will give themselves, the more energetic they will behave and do better in life.
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman
The book revolves around the controlling power of human beings and how they can control their thoughts and create different barriers regarding their capabilities. According to the writer, your attitude makes or breaks your dreams, and carrying an optimistic attitude is the most crucial factor to believing in yourself.
The book contains an optimism quiz and asks its readers to test their optimism and see how pessimistic they are in reality. The writer then makes people aware of different strategies to reset their thinking procedures and adopt various tools to enhance their capabilities and excel in their concerning sectors.
Conclusion:
There are times when the human being himself limits his capabilities and start stereotyping himself. These boundaries are nothing but our illusions of determining our approach towards life. And what’s better than kicking away these barriers yourself? Reading is one such way to realize the importance of your existence and re-building your self-confidence to just buck-up and do something beyond your imaginations. All the books we have mentioned above will help you be optimistic about yourself and the world around you. Hopefully, they will navigate you in the right direction towards getting better mental health.