what is mens sana en corpore sano?

Question

''mens sana en corpore sano''(a healthy mind in a healthy body). I really can't get whats the slogan tryng to explain or trying to say. i want to found out whats that means.. tnx

Answer 1

I means that if you're not emotionally healthy, you'll also have physical illnesses. Or to put it another way, mental illness leads to physical illness. This is a scientific fact, but the ancients recognized this thousands of years ago. Everyone knows that when you're depressed, for example, you also don't feel well physically.

Answer 2

Mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body) is a famous Latin quotation, often translated as "A sound mind in a sound body." It is derived from Satire X of the Roman poet Juvenal (10.356). In context, the phrase is part of the author’s answer to the question of what people should desire in life:

"It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life last among nature’s blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue"

The original connotation of the phrase is that health of mind and body is good in itself and something to be rightly desired, as opposed to beauty, wealth, or power. Over time and separated from its context, the phrase has come to have a range of meanings. It can be construed to mean that only a healthy body can produce or sustain a healthy mind. Its most general usage is to express the concept of a healthy balance in one’s mode of life.