During quarantine, there are different concerns to deal with each day. That is why it is necessary to keep a good mental health during these difficult times. Resilience, emotional regulation, reinvention, and flexibility are skills that each individual must enhance to maintain lasting and strengthened mental health.
A crisis, such as the one caused by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, can be transformed into an occasion for self-esteem to be highlighted by verifying that you are the winner of a difficult situation. With life’s experiences, human beings acquire strengths in proportion to the lessons that life’s obstacles leave.
During isolation, these recommendations can be helpful in maintaining a good mental health at home, and even in the workplace:
Correctly conduct your thoughts
Quarantine puts people in a situation that undoubtedly causes stress, anxiety, and even depression. The quality of our thoughts will define our future actions, therefore, by being aware of what we think, we are choosing what we want to keep in our lives.
Maintaining positive thoughts that keep emotions in check will help considerably to think clearly in front of each day-to-day situation.
A good practice is ‘Mindfulness‘, a relaxation technique that focuses on becoming aware of thoughts through breathing, mind control and concentration.
Understand that it is for a “short” time
To control that feeling of anxiety that is caused by constantly analyzing what will happen in the future or in the situations that you think you will have to face in a few months, you need to understand that no circumstance is forever.
Just as at any time one can be sad and unmotivated, within a few minutes the human being can laugh and feel joy. That is why in this quarantine each individual at home or at work must understand that it is a transitional period.
Maintain self-confidence
It is pertinent to dedicate time to the spiritual encounter that each person considers appropriate. In other words, pray, keep the faith, regardless of the religion that is professed.
Likewise, it is convenient to be aware that life has different objectives for us as human beings. Not just measuring personal goals based on our economic output, but also much more important goals like being good parents, husbands, friends, being a good child, etc.
