ABSTRACT
The relevance of developing intra-personal skills as a proactive way to individual resilience is portrayed in this chapter. It is argued that mental health diseases are steadily gaining the status of an epidemic and the relevance of an efficient preventive approach to mental health is stressed. Intra-personal health depends in the first place on the extent to which one is aware of the different functions of one’s being. Mental wellness in its rightful context would mean a certain ease in directing those internal processes. Second, it depends on the skills for operating with different functional fractions in the inner world. Considering this, unsustainable personal conditions can be transferred to sustainable ones. The argumentation proceeds from the premise that intra-personal functions and events emerge in parallel with brain neuro-dynamics and coordinate the functioning of each other through instant feedback loops. For the current work the relevance of the internal functions of human beings was checked against medical science, clinical practice, empirical research and the author’s personal experience on the subject.
