What is important about mind health?

What is mind health? Why healthy inner domain matter for every person in your team?

Healthy minds allow team members to listen better, communicate more effectively, and support one another without being driven by subconscious inner reactivity or overwhelm that causes stress and burnout. This foundation of mental wellness goes deeper; besides health, it is essential for trust, innovation, and consistent results.

The ideal place to start the change is to train your mental wellness! Only when your own mind is fit (as a leader, HR or business owner), can you share the skills that keep you well with all the great minds around you!

Making mental health a workplace priority takes time and effort. During the 11 years we have existed, there have been a lot of positive changes. But we are far from the situation where everyone trains their mind proactively.

All change happens one person at a time! Are people in your team training their minds?

Up to now, the dominant global mental health approach has been reactive (enlarge the graph and see the left-hand side of the image).

With the dominating paradigm, mental health becomes highlighted when stress turns to burnout or even more serious mental health issues emerge, and therefore can't be ignored any longer.

Even the more and more dominant mental health first aid approach at work is, in essence, reactive; you assist someone who encounters inner problems. Such early support is an improvement, much needed. Mental health first aid in workplaces represents, for sure, a positive shift.

However, we genuinely need to turn proper training of mental strength into something desirable and normal (see the right-hand side of the graph above and below). Only then can engagement and productivity improve without sacrificing mental wellness.
 

Why is mental health important in the work context?

Our work results and efficiency directly depend on the mind. If your mind is calm, you can lead processes within it with ease. A calm mind allows you to thrive.

However, if you feel stressed, anxious or experience mental strain due to a lack of efficient self-leadership, you often lag behind deadlines or experience difficulties.

Take a moment to recall your own life. If you were mentally well, things at work felt doable even if you confronted challenges. Is this your experience?

If you felt anxious, stressed and tired, things at work felt hard. You may have managed to handle the challenges, but it meant you got tired. Sometimes even felt depleted and unmotivated. Is this your experience?

We all rely on the proper functioning of our minds to get our work done

Even most of the physical work demands some mental effort. However, if you work outside or do manual work, getting stuck becomes instantly visible to others. When you work with your head, you can procrastinate and still manage to put on a busy face.

The efficient mind health approach should be proactive and systematic.

Such a practical approach becomes efficient when it provides useful intrapersonal skills. Awareness-based inner skills that allow you to activate and lead processes within your mind at will. For example, you can focus on something at will as long as needed. It is systematic training of your mind that allows you to keep the capabilities of your mind in good shape.

Sounds good, but where is the problem?

Origin of the problem and what you need to change

The origin of the problem is that we lack intrapersonal education. As a result, our intrapersonal leadership is poor.

When challenges and difficulties emerge, we can't remain internally calm. Instead, stress and anxiety rise until inner irritation is so strong that we become toxic in what we say and destructive in what we do.

The substantial problem here is that our inner tension builds gradually. Thus, the downward spiral remains unnoticed behind short emotional outbursts and negative thought patterns.

To simplify, most inner change is extremely slow, which makes it impossible to be noticed by the untrained mind.

By equipping yourself with intrapersonal skills, you become capable of handling pressure and challenges.

By becoming aware of your inner domain, you can notice what is going on in your mind. Intrapersonal skills reduce your inner reactivity and give you the power to stop the escalation of problematic inner processes.

To simplify, removing the seeds of mental health problems early on is based on replacing automatic inner reactivity with an aware response.

The conscious choice of your responses allows you to remove the seeds of mental health problems early on.

Today we aim to solve this with external measures, but the data keeps getting worse and people can't focus at work. It means that remote work arrangements, lovely offices, and breathing exercises aren't good enough.

As already mentioned, for a sustainable solution, we need to improve self-leadership by learning practical intrapersonal skills. Such skills are always with you!
 

Why do you need a proactive mind health approach?

One thing is that people overwork and don't get fair compensation, as inflation cuts the pay, and we compete with A.I. and robots. This sets the economic reality where machines and programs are valued more highly than humans. However, A.I. and robots are superb with repetitive action but lack creativity, insight, and intuition, the three fundamental intrapersonal qualities that drive innovation.

Every entrepreneur knows well that combining the old has limited business advantages.

Inventing something new is challenging, as accessing creativity at will or solving difficult challenges over long periods isn't something we have learned in school. The truth is, it becomes a struggle when initial eagerness and motivation fade.

The profound shift of the mindset here is possible and much needed, as the well-worn path that most of us are on isn't sustainable.

Let us remind you why you need the change:

• In a 2021 MHA annual study pointed out that nearly 85% of respondents agreed that their workplace stress affects their mental health, and that is in a situation where 9 out of 10 feel stressed. Current economic turmoil, along with ongoing wars and layoffs (especially in the EU), isn't making things here easier;
   
• On average, workplaces tend to lose between £1035 ($1345 or 1150€) and £3710 ($4820 or 4120€) per employee every year because of stress, burnout, and mental ill-health. This loss includes costs from presenting and absenteeism and was calculated by Deloitte UK in 2022. Those numbers have probably gone up around 20% due to inflation and salary rises;
   
• Until the costs of presenteeism (showing up to work, unable to perform at a personally optimal level) and absenteeism are high, you keep losing revenue. The Deloitte study linked in the previous bullet point demonstrated it well;
   
• The scientific paper 'The Health and Economic Burden of Employee Burnout to U.S. Employers' published in April 2025 by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine proved that employee burnout costs range from $3,999 to $20,915 (3,333€ to 17,429€ or £2,999 to £15,686) per person;
   
• The most recent UK Burnout Report from early 2026 found that 91% of employees experienced high pressure or high stress levels during the past year;
   
• Around 80% of employees lack engagement at work. Until the bright minds in your team are overwhelmed with stress and thus keep burning out or struggling with inner reactions and mental health issues, they can't focus. Only when people learn intrapersonal skills can they stop stress from escalating. Everyone who can do the maths can easily see the differences in revenue when the dominant employee engagement level of 20% is replaced with the 70% engagement level that is seen in the best practice teams, according to the Gallup study from 2025;
   
• Killingsworth & Gilbert highlighted in 'A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind' that 50% of the time our mind is wandering, as people don't understand how to lead their awareness at will. While multitasking is popular, it isn't efficient at all. A person who suffers from a loss of focus, due to the illusional benefits of multitasking, isn' considerably better than an empty chair. No wonder we see low engagement levels, as intrapersonal education about the practical application of awareness and self-leadership has been missing at workplaces;
   
• Let us end this list with a positive note: Deloitte UK has, again and again, demonstrated that a systematic workplace-wide proactive mental health approach has an excellent return on investment (ROI of 6.3 to 10.8). The more practice the approach, the better the return on your initial investment.

The new proactive mind health approach for everyone vs the conventional mental health approach

People frequently consider the term ‘mental health’ to be equal to the term ‘mental illness’. It is incorrect, as the two are incompatible or even opposites.

Our mental health is great only when our inner functions operate optimally. Mental health equals mental wellness and should be seen as a level of psychological wellbeing. As people still misuse the term 'mental health', we have started using 'mind health' to express the state of inner wellness.

Without adequately training your mind health, you can't experience the actual benefits of excellent mental wellness.

Only a fit mind can access and easily use your 'mental superpowers', such as creativity, insight, intuition, and the ability to concentrate on something as long as you need.
 

Without intrapersonal access to those 'mental superpowers', workplaces have seen great resignation, and people have also lost jobs due to the wide use of A.I. systems and robots that work day in and day out without showing any signs of stress, burnout, or illnesses.

Our worldview is extremely materialistic, and we know how to replace parts. However, we typically lack the intrapersonal skills to keep our own minds well. Fixing our minds is not about replacing parts.

While our brain is material, the processes within it aren't something we can engineer with material means.

The inner leadership here becomes easy when founded on applicable intrapersonal skills. Such skills build strong self-leadership and allow us to stay calm and focused.
 

Keeping your mind well has several benefits

We kindly remind you that your mind/brain isn't replaceable. Once your mind is ill, you suffer. However, there is no need for this; you can train your mind to stay well!

All mental health problems develop slowly and are the result of ignoring your problematic inner functioning when it first appeared.

When you don't train your mind and the brightest minds around you while the mind is still well, you and the people around you can't deal with the actual inner pressures in time. This is mainly due to the absence of intrapersonal skills.

Only when you and all workplaces start paying attention to normal mental functions and focus on keeping excellent mental wellness proactively can we turn things around.

Mental wellness done right is first and foremost about optimal intrapersonal functioning, engagement and thriving.

Your optimum inner functioning, or keeping your mind well, allows you to use your innate potential:

• Keep your focus as long as required and lead your attention at will;
• Embrace the challenges with inner calmness;
• Take initiative and personal responsibility;
• Use creativity and access insights at will;
• Discover natural inner motivation from what you do and the purpose that your work has;
• Be aware of your emotions and lead them at will;
• Manage your activities in time without excess stress and anxiousness;
• Notice turning away from normal and correct it before it becomes problematic.

We like to compare the proactive mental wellness approach to going to the gym. That is why we say that mental wellness gym trainings are for everyone in your team, regardless of their age, position, or responsibilities.

Make training your mind normal for you and your team

Only when training our minds becomes as normal as training our physical bodies can we truly make mental wellbeing a priority.

The first step here is training your mind!

Although personal responsibility for your own mental state should be elementary, it hasn't been so.

It would be naïve to expect you or people around you to apply intrapersonal skills if such skills are missing. As mentioned, the reality is that our educational curricula still lack practical intrapersonal education and proactively focused mental wellness lessons. At best, our schools and universities have started to talk about problems.

No problem goes away by just talking about it. Talking only raises awareness, but you need to take conscious action to identify solutions for challenging situations.

Solving any challenge demands moving towards solutions, one step at a time.

Here, we have made improving mind health easy and affordable.

Now you can take your whole team to the mind health training. And don't worry, you can try it for free first. Along with trying, you can enjoy a free stress test!
 

This mental wellness gym is fully digital and thus open 24/7.

Why we made it digital is that practical training should be more than just listening; it needs to tick several boxes to improve anything. Those boxes are:

     ☑️  Self-assessment at the start and end of each training;
     ☑️  Individual feedback and self-development tips based on your self-evaluation results;
     ☑️  5 mind health training sessions as high-quality videos with a qualified mental wellness expert;
     ☑️  Quizzes to integrate what you learned in each training session;
     ☑️  Workbook supporting mind health and including group discussions to improve workplace mental wellness.

In live training, you hear things, but the individual application part is often missing. That is why we often forget what we heard. Doing it yourself under the guidance of a trainer and monitoring results in your personal workbook is what makes a difference.

Integrated practices and application of what you learn make this mind health training approach worth investing in. And it is an excellent investment, as many of our customers have seen tenfold ROI.

CONCLUSION

Mind health training allows you to influence your own inner wellness positively.

This website is designed to improve your life and the lives of your employees. Become one of the gifted achievers who know how to keep stress away and thrive.

Everyone can discover how to use the 'mental superpowers'. Your ability to differentiate what is important and then focus is learnable. Moreover, knowing how to access insights and use creativity is practical as it gives you a business advantage and allows you to innovate.

As the human brain is neuroplastic, training it regularly, just as you train your muscles, allows you to thrive.

Come and discover how to thrive NOW!

Click here for free mental wellness resources or discover more about the online trainings that best fit your (team's) specific needs.
 

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