Sound Mental Health Enhances One’s Personality

Sound Mental Health Enhances One’s Personality

          M.K. Gandhi in his definition of Education asserted, “Education I mean complete development of child – body, mind and spirit.”  To have complete development the individual should perfectly all right in all the aspects – physically, mentally, spiritually, morally, culturally, and aesthetically. It is not enough to have development in one or two aspects but in all the aspects of one’s life. The term complete development includes all areas of one’s life. Now the term ‘Mental health’ is self explanatory which basically refers to state of mental health. To enjoy good mental health means free from maladies like anxiety, repression, guilt feeling, emotional conflict, phobias, hyperactive discouragement and so on. These in turn make the individual cripple in his personality. Due to this his progress is choked and instead of blooming he withers and dies.

            Individual who are mentally ill can be termed maladjusted. Their existence is hampered and they cannot live their life as other do. They become truant, mischievous, and land up into unhealthy activities.  Now one may pose question, what makes them so? The answers are broken family (single parent, not enjoying love from his/her parents), Emotional conflict (Failure in the examination), Rejection (Love failure) and many others.

Group living, working, playing together, learning ways of self expression, change attitudes and behaviour of teacher toward educational method and development of students, emphasis on parent teacher cooperation, building human relationship, use of behaviour modification techniques, encouraging positive regard or behaviour. These can help make our society better place to live in where student is loved and in this loving ambient his personality develop better. 

The individual child will bloom when his mental health is sound and will be visible in all aspects of his life since personality includes all the aspects of his life.

To develop the personality of the child one needs to understand the children’s behaviour, to possess positive regard towards students, be expert in teaching program, and be firm like a father and kind like a mother.