Mental health has entered the big stage, and everyone is talking about it. Rightfully so, because we all have more or less issues with our mental health.
The connection between emotional health and mental health, unfortunately, remains less discussed because it is considered obvious. Most people assume that mental health is the basis for emotional health.
In other words, mental health leads to emotional health. This assumption stems from the century-old Western medical worldview that emotions result from brain activity related to mental activity.
As always, there is more than one way to look at anything, including emotions. If you reverse that causal chain, you'll have the statement, "Emotional health leads to mental health. In this scenario, emotions would be the source of our thoughts and mental activity.
If you start to research, you can find studies that seem to confirm either view. As you learn to think with your heart instead of solely with your brain, you'll begin to realize that things are not either or but both and more.
This would mean that thoughts and mind activity, reflected in brain activity, lead to emotions, and vice versa.
Rebekka Baumann has spent the last 30+ years facilitating emotional healing based on the assumption that emotions are the primary and core aspect of humans.
In her work, we are not mental beings, as the common phrase "mind over matter" encapsulates. We are emotion beings, or heart-beings. Our emotions and how we relate to them, which is a relationship with ourselves, shape what we think, what decisions we make, and how we live our lives.
The connection between emotional health and mental health, unfortunately, remains less discussed because it is considered obvious. Most people assume that mental health is the basis for emotional health.
In other words, mental health leads to emotional health. This assumption stems from the century-old Western medical worldview that emotions result from brain activity related to mental activity.
As always, there is more than one way to look at anything, including emotions. If you reverse that causal chain, you'll have the statement, "Emotional health leads to mental health. In this scenario, emotions would be the source of our thoughts and mental activity.
If you start to research, you can find studies that seem to confirm either view. As you learn to think with your heart instead of solely with your brain, you'll begin to realize that things are not either or but both and more.
This would mean that thoughts and mind activity, reflected in brain activity, lead to emotions, and vice versa.
Rebekka Baumann has spent the last 30+ years facilitating emotional healing based on the assumption that emotions are the primary and core aspect of humans.
In her work, we are not mental beings, as the common phrase "mind over matter" encapsulates. We are emotion beings, or heart-beings. Our emotions and how we relate to them, which is a relationship with ourselves, shape what we think, what decisions we make, and how we live our lives.
Emotions is what we are
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