In this blog we exchange a lot about intellectual aptitude. After all,
our paintings focus on the intersection of intellectual health and training.
But a crucial layer of any dialogue about mental form is a larger dialogue
about typical physical form. When it comes to health talks, they usually
revolve around physical health. From an early age, we are able to articulate
our physical experience. However, we are not so used to being in tune with what
we are feeling mentally. This is because we often think of fitness as a single
body aspect. But in reality this is no longer the case. Fitness is just one
aspect of fitness; mental health is equally crucial.
Think of it as an equation: physical health + mental health = general
health
So let's talk a little more about the intellectual form.
Discussions about intellectual fitness are more common today than, say,
a decade ago. Yet even today, discussions of intellectual fitness regularly
revolve around health problems or intellectual illnesses. When we acknowledge
something negative, it tends to become taboo. Conversations about mental
illness are extremely essential, but so are conversations about popular mental
health. Mental health is part of your regular health, not just when there is a
problem.
The World Health Society defines mental health as "
a state of well-being in which a man or woman realizes their personal
abilities, can cope with the ordinary stresses of life, can paint productively,
and can contribute to your network. " In other words, mental fitness is an
essential part of our daily life.
Think of a time when something in your body bothered you: a cracking
neck, a pain in your ankle, a blister on your foot, a headache. What did you do
to deal with this pain? Did you have the equipment and the means to know how to
take care of your body and reduce pain?
Now think about a time when something changed and made you mentally
upset: you felt sad or anxious, agitated or worried. What have you done to
control your mental health? Did you have the equipment or assets you needed to
know how to take proper care of yourself?
As a general rule, responding to our physical desires and concerns is
instinctive,
but responding to our intellectual desires and concerns often
requires extra effort. This is partly because a physical issue like a headache
is more pressing than feeling miserable or restless, but also because we tend
to think of better intellectual health in terms of something that is out there.
The best as a disease, we do not believe is clearly part of our standard
physical condition.
Ultimately,
we hope to change the way you think about intellectual fitness. It is no
longer something we need to be aware of when something doesn't seem entirely
appropriate, but something we have to think about frequently. We need to try to
satisfy our mental health desires in the same way that we do our bodily health
needs, knowing what we want to do to take care of ourselves and taking steps to
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