Habits, whether good or bad, dictate how we live each day and how we behave at times. Unfortunately changing habits, especially bad ones, is quite a difficult task. 

There are habits that we have ingrained in our lives for a long time. They are automatic, you don't even think about having to do certain things, they come to you by nature.

Most people say that mental health is important to them. But only two-thirds of them are committed to make changes to improve their own mental health. For a positive mental health, you need to take positive actions.

Here are 11 tips to get you started:

When we understand at a deep level why we eat emotionally, we can begin to regain the power of the cycle. The emotional eating cycle has four main stages. Each stage has a name to make it easier to recognize when they occur in our daily lives: the trigger, the dissimulation, the false luck and the hangover.

Go to any bookstore and you will find countless books that focus on this one concept: act. The problem is that the approach does not explain why we did not act in the first place.

For us to act, we must first understand ourselves. There are so many books, podcasts and blog articles focused on this subject, but there is one very important piece missing from the story: understanding you and knowing why you did not act in the first place.