5 ways to improve your mental wellbeing –
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Introduction 👋
These days, it can be common to feel low, and struggle with your mental wellbeing.
According to MIND, 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England.
Among challenges like:
- the COVID-19 pandemic 😷
- cost of living crisis 💸
- the loneliness epidemic 🥺
- pressure from school 🎓
- pressure from work 💼
it can be really common to feel things like:
- loneliness 😔
- anxiety
- stress 😬
- frustration
- sadness 🥺
- depression
- low self-esteem 😥
Did you know, the National Health Service in the UK have listed 5 evidence-backed steps you can follow, to improve your mental wellbeing?
Here are our top 5 steps to improve your mental wellbeing. 🧠
1. Get active 🏃♀️
You’ve probably heard this one already, but it’s true!
Getting active can have a huge impact on how positive you feel. ☀️
One of the best ways to get into the habit of being active is to make it fun.
There are lots of fun ways to get active like:
- dog walking 🐕
- walking with friends 🧑🤝🧑
- trampolining 🦘
- rock climbing 🧗♀️
- hiking 🏞️
- treasure hunts 🗺️
- escape rooms 🔒
- gardening 🌱
- playing games 🏓
- dancing 💃
2. Focus on “right now” ⌚
As humans we tend to spend a lot of time worrying about the past and future, which stops us from enjoying what’s happening “right now”.
So – why not spend some time enjoying right now?
You can do things like:
- Meditating 🧘♀️ – Apps like Headspace can guide you through meditations and help you to reduce stress.
- Writing journals about the things you’re grateful for ✍️ (20 ways to practice gratitude 🙏)
- Focusing on your senses and experiencing them – what can you smell, see, touch, hear, taste? 👅
- Enjoying the moment and doing things you love – going on walks, hanging out with friends, eating delicious food 🎉
- Paying close attention to how you feel 💔
- Trying new experiences 🧗♀️
3. Connect with people🤝
Your relationships and the people around you can have a huge impact on your mental wellbeing. 🧠
Good relationships and feeling connected to other people can improve your mental wellbeing, making you feel feel happy, confident, safe, and supported. 🥰
On the other hand – relationship struggles can damage your mental wellbeing and make you feel sad, insecure, unsafe, and unsupported. 💔
To connect to others, you could do things like:
- regularly make an effort to see friends and family
- organise social events
- try to meet new people and broaden your social circle
- take time to talk to the people you see day-to-day and learn about them
- start a new hobby, and connect with people who do that hobby too
- build upon and improve your existing relationships
- replace bad relationships with healthier new ones
- reach out to someone you haven’t spoken to in a while
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4. Learn new skills 🛠️
Learning and achieving new things can make you feel amazing, and make a huge difference to improve your mental wellbeing.
So – get your learning cap on, and try doing something new!
You could try something like:
- Doing an online course – websites like Udemy and Skillshare offer a wide range of different courses
- Getting creative – making art, crafts, music, writing stories, cooking – creating things! 🎨
- Learning how to fix things e.g. repairing clothes, fixing a broken bicycle
- Trying out a new instrument e.g. ukuleles can be relatively inexpensive, and there are plenty of free tutorials online 🎸
- Learn to cook a new recipe
- Set yourself a challenge 🧗♀️
5. Give to others 🎁
It’s common to feel low when you don’t feel needed or don’t have a purpose in life.
Helping others can be a huge way to connect to others and improve your mental wellbeing.
You could do things like:
- volunteer for a charity
- smile when you pass people in the street 😊
- make crafts e.g. cakes, jewelry and give them away as gifts
- surprise someone with a gift 🎁- Cancer Research UK‘s online charity shop offers gifts that also donate to the charity.
- think of creative ways to cheer people up when they’re down
- ask people more questions – it makes them feel really good about themselves! 🎤
- give someone a compliment
- do litter picking 🗑️
- raise money for a good cause
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Conclusion 👍
So that’s it!
To improve your mental wellbeing, you can:
- Get active 🏃♀️
- Focus on “right now” ⌚
- Connect with people🤝
- Learn new skills 🛠️
- Give to others 🎁
If you know any friends or family members who might benefit from learning about how to improve your mental wellbeing, share this post with them!
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