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Recognizing
Emotionally Healthy
People
By Dr. Tom Miller, Staff Writer
When you engage a person who
is relaxed in life, has an open mind
and shares that life with others, you
may well have found a person who
might be described as an emotionally
healthy person. Emotional health may
best be measured by self-esteem and
an ability to be resilient. Emotional
health and wellness involves a continuum of flowing energy that peaks
with gifts of the heart, the mind and
the spirit. Abraham Maslow shared
his thoughts on this through his concept of self-actualization. Emotional
wellness is the state one experiences
and enjoys as a person moves closer
and closer to being self-actualized.
Self-actualizing people tend to focus
on problems outside themselves,
have a clear sense of what is right and
good, are spontaneous and creative;
and are not bound by social conventions including social media.
Maslow suggests that self-actualized individuals have a better insight
of reality, accept themselves for who
they are, and face many of life’s challenges with confidence and resilience.
According to Maslow, self-actualizing
people share the following qualities
that include goodness, benevolence,
honesty, interconnectedness, simplicity, resilience, organization, structure,
order, and synergy. Maslow based his
theory partially on his own assumptions about human potential and
partially on his case studies of historical figures whom he believed to be
self-actualized.
One’s emotional health refers to
that overall psychological wellbeing.
People who are emotionally healt B