8 things you must do to be emotionally healthy.

Our emotions are the most present, pressing and sometimes painful force in our lives. Emotions dictate our thoughts, motives and actions. Hence we need to be emotionally healthy to feel happy and have a sense of purpose in our lives. Being healthy emotionally involves having a measurable control over your emotions rather than being at its mercy. 

 Here are eight needs you must meet to be emotionally healthy:

1.     You must learn to feel safe and secure within your space or territory.

2.     You must regularly give and receive quality attention.

3.     You must feel a sense of influence and control over your life.

4.     You must feel part of a wider community

5.     You must enjoy friendship, fun love and intimacy with significant people.

6.     You must feel a sense of status; basically feel you have a recognizable role in life.

7.     You must feel a sense of competence and achievement.

8.     You must be occupied to avoid stagnation, boredom and to enhance self-esteem.

When these needs are met adequately, you will have full control over your emotions. You will not be rattled or disoriented by every challenge. You will feel your life is in order and purposeful. Not meeting these needs leaves us feeling that life is pointless and leaves us open to emotional problems. So work at meeting these needs and you will be feeding the right emotion with the ‘right food’.