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Best resolutions for your mental health, suggested by an expert

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Before welcoming a brand new year, many of us like to work on a list of new year resolutions aiming to give the coming year some sort of purpose. The list sometimes gets too long and unviable and the goals listed in it tend to get unrealistic. In order to achieve your new year resolutions, experts say it’s best to keep them simple and realistic.

While the process of setting goals may give us a temporary high, not able to implement them can make us feel like a failure. This could increase anxiety and stress in people.

While the most popular resolutions are generally around physical health, this year mental health should be the priority, say experts.

2021 has been a hard year for almost all of us considering pandemic affected our lives in multiple ways. This New Year, experts suggest the focus should be on self-healing and mindfulness to recharge ourselves for the coming months.

This New Year, experts suggest the focus should be on self-healing and mindfulness to recharge ourselves for the coming months© 

“While some resolutions seem motivating at first but they can put an individual under a lot of pressure later on and create feelings of anxiety and decreased self-esteem. It can be hard for many of us to stay motivated for a long time even when one has chosen a simpler, more realistic goal,” says Maitri Dhingra, Counseling Psychologist at Kaleidoscope- a unit of Dr. Bakshi’s Healthcare.

A short-term goal works best for people and it doesn’t have to be something which is absolutely new, says Dr. Sonal Anand, Psychiatrist, Wockhardt Hospitals, Mira Road.

“It can be something which you could not fulfill last year but something realistic,” says the expert.

Dr Anand says one should give priority to self-healing this year and develop resilience for better mental health.

“Mindfulness is something we should be focussing on this year. Another resolution could be self-forgiveness as a lot of things are not in our hands in pandemic era and we can’t be responsible for everything, so letting go and forgiving yourself should be the motto this year,” says Dr Anand.

The expert also suggests focussing on a more active lifestyle rather than sedentary for the coming year. “Children especially need to be on top of their health and should focus on indoor games, exercising etc,” says the psychiatrist.

“Self-healing as a resolution can be beneficial in several ways. One should also work on developing self-awareness in order to become a better person because when you are a better person, things are bound to become better around you,” says Dr Anand.

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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