{"id":658,"date":"2017-07-18T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soil.edu.in\/?p=658"},"modified":"2017-07-18T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T08:12:09","slug":"a-session-with-justine-hardy-founder-healing-minds-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soil.edu.in\/blog\/a-session-with-justine-hardy-founder-healing-minds-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"A session with Justine Hardy (Founder, Healing Minds Foundation)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justine Hardy, the founder of Healing Minds Foundation which helps in rehabilitating those suffering from the psychological fallout of conflict, has done majority of her work in the Kashmir region over the years. She recently visited SOIL campus for a delightful session with the students. Read further to get a quick understanding of how this session helped their perspective towards stress, as articulated by a student.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The guest lecture with Justine Hardy was quite an awakening one. It gave us a different perspective of looking at mental stress. Full credits to the prolific personality who took us to have a different experience in just an hour.<\/p>\n

Justine Hardy, our guest lecturer who counsels people suffering from the so-called disease, mental anxiety in the Kashmir valley, an apparently tough demography with numerous political and geographical complications. And that\u2019s the last time we call Anxiety a ‘disease’.<\/p>\n

Anxiety – A human trait<\/strong><\/p>\n

The major emphasis of the session was on equipping us with a different instrument to handle anxiety, the adrenaline rush or whatever you call it.<\/p>\n

Anxiety isn\u2019t first of all a disease, it\u2019s something which we as human beings deal with day in and day out. We come across it quite often like, whenever we have an exam, give a presentation, or undergo any task which is out of our comfort zone. Anxiety isn\u2019t a sign of weakness, it\u2019s a part of the human evolution process. It\u2019s not something which one should think to get rid of, rather it\u2019s a human trait. We just need to learn ways to use it positively.<\/p>\n

The measures to deal with Anxiety were through simple mechanisms like, observing your breath. Breathing normally not only brings us to the present but also stops us from worrying about the things which were disappointing for us.<\/p>\n

Mental Health<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mental health isn\u2019t absence of stress, tension, anxiety, it\u2019s the art of learning to live with it comfortably and making cautious efforts to bring them down as and when they occur to us.<\/p>\n

We also were educated of the five pillars of mental health:<\/p>\n