The question we should ask is, is our culture making us more prone to mental illness, and can we identify aspects of our culture that are dysfunctional?
We need to start identifying how to combat cultural hazards to our mental health.
The culture is making us sick.
we are all accessory to the rise in mental illness within our society and our culture reflects this ;
We are a sleep-deprived, over-stimulated, media-saturated, multi-tasking, caffeine, always on to what is bigger and better, materialistic culture, in energetic terms more and more masculine.
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Myths embody philosophical reflections, express values, and identify moral standards in African oral culture, this all appears to be interconnected with more different indigenous belief systems that can be found all around the world.
These are well-founded in the ideology that we are all collectively connected (ubuntu), and therefore we can collectively give direction to the going and standing of our world and personal life by focusing on intent and taking action in our physical reality.
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As Afro - Europeans we live in an environment that does not always give us the elements that meet the needs of our body, in this case, the one thing is sunlight and the production of vitamin D that comes with being exposed to it.The issue of Vitamine D deficiency in people of color is a very common phenomenon that can have underlying health complications when untreated.
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Ik groeide op en leerde leven met een onderliggende interne strijd mezelf niet als minderwaardig te zien,en onderdrukte het gevoel me constant te moeten bewijzen doordat ik mezelf zag door de bril van een racistische blanke samenleving.
‘Deze bril’ of Dit hyper-bewustzijn van hoe blanke mensen mij zien creëerde net als bij vele van mijn gekleurde lotgenoten een dubbel bewustzijn,een soort masker die de pijn van het subtiel rasisme incasseerde om te kunnen overleven ...
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We all need zinc, and in the next blog post I will explain just why and how it’s a very relevant mineral to take into terms of this viral epidemic going on.
this vital mineral has a lot of benefits in the body, especially for our immunity and recovery of the body.
A small deficiency in Zinc can lead to health problems, that's why it's important to take this mineral seriously.
Zink is found in every tissue because it is found in cells throughout the body and its deficiency can affect the body in a lot of ways. find out more !
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Magnesium is an important mineral, playing a role in the enzyme reactions of the human body. Its many functions include helping with muscle and nerve function, regulating blood pressure, and supporting the immune system. Magnesium deficiency causes mental illnesses as it also plays a role in the transmission of nerve impulses.
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This pull for connection is a universal law that I feel is more than relevant to discuss today. In this digital day-to-day life, we tend to forget our effect on one another and seem to be moving towards a "give to get" society, this is not only translated in the way we treat each other but also in our mental health.
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Illness is part of life, it is an indicator that something is not right in our organism, with this note I want to clarify the path to the illness so that the way out seems simpler.
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