The Mental Aspect of Mental Health by Pan Bourcier Hidalgo
Part 1 in the Mental Health 4 part series: Astar’s Maze
Ever since I can remember I felt that I wanted to help people and I knew I would change the world in some way. This is still not something that is clear to me. However, I do have my story to offer and I do have insights to offer in my journey up to this point. I do not have everything figured out but I would like to share my story and share my theories in the hope that at least one person feels less alone in their struggles.
Over the years I have tried many things to balance myself out and help myself function to my full potential. I approach health from what I call the four bodies. This includes the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual. I am sure there are other aspects but for the sake of simplifying and presenting my theories in an accessible and digestible way we will keep it narrowed down to those four.
Video One: Mental Health
This first video has to do with the mental aspect of mental health. Most of us tend to locate our mental health at the head where our brains and the mind are located. The brain is just a physical organ that houses our thoughts and our imagination. Since we are physical beings in a physical body it is important to understand that the brain needs to be cared for in order for it to function properly. One also needs to remember though that the brain is connected to the whole of the body- physically and the electromagnetically which I will discuss in later videos.
I hope you enjoy this video and that it provides you some clarity for your own healing. As I learn more about this system I am developing (and testing on myself) it will evolve and one day I would like to present it to you all as a holistic therapy that will help transform and enrich your lives. So stay tuned for the other three videos in this four part series as I will be releasing one each week over the course of a month. As always thank you for your support, we are on this journey together!
*Read more of my series Pan’s Labyrinth here
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Pan Bourcier Hidalgo is a Dancer who is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her blog series, Pan’s Labyrinth, discusses Self-Discovery and Personal Evolution.
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would be spent. I dreamed of living in a specific house and have comradery with my artsy, musician roommates. I dreamed I would go to flight school and become a commercial pilot. I even had a great idea of renting out space to traveling musicians and calling it ‘The Bryd House’. They were great ideas attached to great emotions of freedom and newness. Eventually I got to New Orleans and I found out what it really had in store for me. 
Everyone needs space to be a person, everyone needs outlets that create momentum in their life, everyone needs down time to recharge their battery, and everyone needs kindness and love. What I found in New Orleans was how to give those things to myself. When I was able to step outside of myself and view myself as another person I found that I wanted to love myself as deeply as possible because that is when I am the happiest. We don’t realize sometimes the micro aggressions we commit towards ourselves. Sometimes this can be going out with friends when really we want to go home, drink tea, and watch a movie. Sometimes it appears as not feeding ourselves properly throughout the day because we are “too busy” to do so. Are you really too busy to value yourself enough to give your own body sustenance and energy that it needs to stay alive? I sure hope not. We want to go so fast that we forget to really be with ourselves and enjoy who we are. You are going to be your own companion for your…entire…life. Stop to enjoy that reality every once in a while and you will find that you go through your days a lot happier as a result. 
remove some of the factors that would cause me to doubt myself. Which is when I found myself staring point blank at self-doubt. 
university and found that I had been locking myself in co-dependent/enabling relationships where I found myself mostly on the enabling side of the dynamic though both have to exist in a person for this to be a problem. As a result of this dynamic I had learned to go against what I KNEW was right for me hence, self-sacrificing. I had learned to distrust my ability to make good decisions for myself. When we give up what we know in our gut is right for someone else and we do this to the extent that it becomes self sacrificing, we are actually teaching ourselves that our instinct is wrong. 
