Qualities of People With Good Mental Health

By Don Searles

Good mental health is very helpful to being able to forgive.  Following is a list of the qualities of people that have good mental health.

1. Generally positive in their attitudes to life and other people.
    

2. Generally contented with themselves, life, and other people.
    

3. Mostly free from the negative emotions of worry, fear, anxiety, anger, jealousy, resentment, and revenge.
    

4. Takes responsibility for their emotions and actions.  Does not blame others.
    

5. Can feel deeply, have empathy, and care for others.
    

6. Have a high level of trust in themselves and others.
    

7. Open, friendly and honest in a natural way.  Does no feel they must hide things from others. Does not lie or embellish the truth to make themselves look better or more important than they are.
    

8. Realistic, practical and not manipulative in communications and actions.
    

9. In love, does not cling nor need others desperately.
    

10. Seeks and asks for help when needed.  Can give and receive help from other people.
     

11. Dealing with change does not cause great difficulty.
     

12. Keeps problems and difficulties in the proper perspective.  Understand that they are learning tools and not the end of the world.
     

13. Resilient and able to bounce back from great difficulties and losses.  Can overcome grief without great difficulty.
     

14. Is able to forgive themselves, others, and God, without great difficulty.
     

15. Flexible with activates, themselves, and others.
     

16. Seeks and accepts truthful knowledge, which will support or not support their actions and believes.  When new knowledge is found that does not support their actions and believes are able to change their actions and beliefs. 
     

17. Understands what is appropriate and not appropriate in any situation.
     

18. Has a good understanding of what will be good or cause harm to themselves and others.
     

19. Has a good sense of reality.
     

20. Can be spontaneous and creative.
     

21. In general is able to accomplish what they say they are going to do.  Not continually talking about things they are going to do, but never start.
     

22. Work in harmony with the environment, God, and others.  Does no cry, “I can’t do that, it’s to hot, to cold, or it’s raining.”
     

23. Comfortable in admitting mistakes and personal faults.
     

24. Does not project their faults into other people.
     

25. Able to learn from their mistakes and from other people.
     

26. Does not have a need to control other people, like dictators, politicians, bad bossed and some parents do.
     

27. Are not overly concerned about what other people think about them.
     

28. Generally live in the present moment, not the past or the future.
     

29. Does not jump to conclusions.  Gets the facts.
     

30. Makes decisions without great difficulty.
     

31. Does not try to find answers to unanswerable questions like, “I just can’t understand why they did that”?  We never will understand why people do bad things.
     

32. Are able to organize and carry out personal or business activities.
     

33. Has a low level of prejudice toward people of other races, color, sex, or nationality.

There are many ways to acquire these qualities, which include bible study, especially Proverbs, Prayer, and study of appropriate books and Internet sites.