DIL DIYAAN GALLAN

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DIL DIYA GALLAN

Dil Diyaan Gallan is an initiative focused on breaking the Stigma around Mental Health in the South Asian community. The goal is to change how we view and take care of our mental health so that we see it in on a spectrum of our overall well-being. On this spectrum is our physical health, spiritual health, relational health and mental health.

Our mission is to promote the following: KNOWLEDGE: promote learning about mental health

AWARENESS: offer tools and strategies to increase one’s own awareness of their mental health experiences and needs.

COMFORT: normalizing the experiences of mental health to create safe spaces for people to talk openly about their mental health challenges.

SUNIL MUNJARAL (Founder- Dil Diya Gallan)

CHAHAT MUNJARAL RAMAN GILL

The Dil Diyaan Gallan initiative began in two homes, with two different stories. In one home, a father, Sunil, consoled his 17 year old daughter, Chahat, as she cried endlessly struggling with overwhelming emotions and thoughts related to relationship challenges with friends. After crying and talking they realized they were lucky to have this safe space to openly express themselves. The two came to realize that many people struggle silently.

Sunil, having worked in social services most of his life, in India and in Canada, and Chahat a grade 12 student, noticed how many people in the South Asian community struggle in silence with their

mental health. This sparked the father/ daughter duo’s desire to do something, to break the stigma, to break the silence and hopefully shift how mental health is talked about, thought about, and cared for in this community.

In the second home, a clinical counsellor, Raman, was dealing with grief after the loss of two young cousin brother’s within a year. Two young, vibrant, beautiful souls, gone because of the stigma around mental health, the stigma around what it means to be strong. Strength in our community is still seen as silent enduring of whatever life throws your way. Weakness is seen as sharing and expressing your struggle, causing isolation. The silence took two of Raman’s dear ones too soon. Raman had been struck with a deep desire to help break the stigma around mental health so no other family has to feel such a devastating loss.

Yet, so many homes, so many individuals are feeling the wrath of this stigma. Mothers and fathers have lost their children, brothers and sisters have lost their siblings, and right now, in this moment, as you read this, so many people are struggling with their mental health silently, and alone.

Dil Diyaan Gallan is about offering information on how to create safe spaces where our loved ones can express their struggles, find information on what mental health is and how it impacts our daily existence, listen to stories and language used to describe our experiences, learn ideas and tools, all in the hopes to normalize our need to take care of our mental well-being.

Join our small team in breaking the stigma, in ending mental health isolation, and creating safe spaces for our loved ones to express themselves.

The small team behind this initiative, Chahat, Sunil and Raman, recognize that they are not the first to take steps to break the stigma and silence around mental health in the South Asian community and wish to pay their respects to each and every person that has offered their time and energy to this endeavor.

Two homes, two different stories, both impacted by the silence around mental health in the South Asian community.

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SUCCESS COMES TO THOSE WHO WORK FOR IT

People with goals succeed because they know where they are going” –Earl Nightingale. The stories of people achieving unusual success despite all manner of handicaps never fail to capture our attention. They’re inspirational to be sure. But they’re much more than that if we study them carefully. The boy whose legs were terribly burned and who was told he’d be lucky to ever walk again becomes a champion track star. The woman blind and deaf from infancy becomes one of the most inspirational figures of the century. Poor children gaining fame and name due to their hard work are becoming common. People who have nothing and achieve everything due to their input in their field are what amazes everyone.

People with all the disabilities or people having nothing but still achieving everything there is something that differentiates them from others. They have goals. They have a burning desire to succeed despite all obstacles and handicaps. They know exactly what they want; they think about it every day of their lives. They have a vision of exactly what they want to do, and that vision carries them over every obstacle.

This inspiration, this dream, this goal, invisible to the entire world except the person holding it, is responsible for perhaps every great advancement and accomplishment. What the mind can perceive and believe, it can achieve. We become what we think about. When we focus on an exciting goal, we reach it by any means. That’s why it’s been said, “You get what you focus on” by David Justus.

Goals are the very basis of success or they are the definition of success. The best definition of success is “Accomplishing the goal of helping myself and others lead a better, happier, healthier life”. Now, success doesn’t lie in the achievement of a goal, although that’s what the world considers success; it lies in the journey toward the goal. We’re successful as long as we’re working toward something we want to bring about in our lives. That’s when the human being is at his or her best.

If you have a goal that you find worthy of you as a person, a goal that fills you with joy at the thought of it, believe me, you’ll reach it. As you are going to achieve your goal think about the next goal beforehand. That’s the only way you are progressive in nature.

Your goals should be concise and you should progressively work towards them. You should have a list of goals so that you know your progress and can add new goals to your list. Life offers so way too much but when asked what we are working for their vague answers like money but in reality, everyone is working for their goals and their life accomplishments. You will become what you think. Your personality is a reflection of your thoughts,

One should work on one goal at a time. People tend to work on everything together and end up doing nothing and just being confused making excuses for their failures. By thinking every morning, every night, and as many times during the day as you can about this exciting single goal you’ve established for yourself, you actually begin moving toward it and bringing it toward you.

So decide upon your goal. Stick to it. Make it a necessity. Remember your goals every morning and night and as many times during the day as you conveniently can. By so doing, you will imply your goal into your subconscious mind. You’ll see yourself as having already attained your goal, and do that every day without fail, and it will become a habit before you realize it. You will soon become the person you really wanted to become.