The document defines emotional hygiene as adopting daily habits to monitor and address psychological wounds, similar to how dental hygiene involves daily brushing and flossing. It then outlines 5 essentials of emotional hygiene: clean your emotions by dealing with psychological pain daily; pay attention to emotional pain and seek help if it persists; stop poking at emotional wounds; protect your emotional immune system by battling negative thinking; and practice self-compassion to heal damaged self-esteem. The overall message is that maintaining psychological health requires being mindful of stresses and trauma, and treating emotional wounds with the same care as physical injuries.

1. 5 Essentials of Emotional Hygiene
Presented By TRN Rakesh Kiran MBA
HR Executive JR

2. Contents
 A little bit about me
 A definition
 5 Essentials
 Clean Your Emotions
 Pay Attention To Emotional Pain
 Stop Emotional Bleeding
 Protect Your Emotions
 Practice Compassion
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3. A Definition
• In much the same way that dental hygiene involves
brushing our teeth and flossing every day, and personal
hygiene involves cleaning ourselves and taking care of
physical injuries when we sustain them, emotional
hygiene refers to being mindful of
our psychological health and adopting brief daily habits to
monitor and address psychological wounds when we sustain
them.
• Currently, our general neglect of our emotional hygiene is
profound. How is it we spend more time each day taking care
of our teeth than our minds? We brush and floss but what
daily activity do we do to maintain our psychological health?
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4. 5 Essentials Of Emotional
Hygiene

5. Clean Your Emotions
 Just like you clean your teeth, you need to cleanse
your emotions. Emotional hygiene refers to being
mindful of our stresses, motional-traumas,
suffering and pain.
 Adopt daily monitors to deal with psychological
pain and wounds when you sustain them.
Emotional hygiene, just like daily brushing of
teeth, requires daily focus, time & energy. The
Dalai Lama urges people to get rid of disturbing
emotions like anger, frustration, anxiety.
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6. Pay Attention To Emotional Pain
 If you are hurt or heartbroken, it will take you time
to heal – just like a physical pain. If your emotional
pain continues for too long, seek help. Psychologist
and motivational speaker Guy Winch in his Tedtalk,
‘How to Practice Emotional Hygiene’, asked people
to get that first aid emotional box out after failure
or rejection.
 It takes patience to work on emotional wounds, he
says, but “once you get better control over your
emotions, you don’t lose it easily”.
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7. Stop Emotional Bleeding
 Don’t keep poking your emotional wounds, and
psychologically hurting yourself on a day-to-day
basis. If you can’t control an outside situation,
withdraw from it, with time. It’s important to keep
a check on our negative cycles.
 The idea is not to poke our emotional wounds-
regrets, rejections. Just as in the case of physical
injury, we need to apply emotional Band-Aids on
emotional pain.
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8. Protect Your Emotions
 We all have emotional immune systems, and we
must make sure we keep it health and intact. Work
on building your emotional strength and resilience.
Don’t talk or think negatively about any life event.
 Keep increasing your emotional immune system,
thereby raising your self-esteem and confidence.
Battle out negative thinking from your mind
consciously. Do not belittle yourself or indulge in
guilt trips and self blame. It can be lethal for your
health in the long run.
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9. Practice Compassion
 One way to heal damaged self-esteem is to
practice self-compassion. Quickly get over
emotional drawbacks in life; emotional recovering
takes patience, time and self-love.
 Self-love will raise your resilience and help you get
through turbulence with ease. If you treat yourself
kindly, you will feel stronger and get emotionally
healed.
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Source: Time of India
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