How To Improve Mental Health

 

Mental health is far over a diagnosing. it is your overall psychological well-being—the manner you are feeling concerning yourself et al. still as your ability to manage your feelings and handle everyday difficulties. And whereas taking care of your psychological state will mean seeking skilled support and treatment, it additionally means that taking steps to enhance your emotional health on your own. creating these changes can pay off all told aspects of your life. It will boost your mood, build resilience, and increase your overall enjoyment of life.

Get Together With Friends Even If It’s For A Beer Or Coffee.

 If you’re on your own go outside to an event where there are people even if you don’t socialize human contact always helps. Connection with other people friends and family all that sort of stuff has been shown to be really helpful for your physical health and your mental health.

Take Help Of Close Ones

Friends, family, therapy. Whether we’re talking about resilience or we’re talking about dealing with grief or loss finding a way to get help from your friends and family has been shown to be one of the most important variables in getting better.

Nurture Genuine Relationships

So, if you want to make new friends become familiar entity keep showing up at the same type of social situation and ask someone open-ended questions questions that don’t have a yes or no answer. And from that you’ll understand a little bit more about them and if you are interested in becoming greater friends ask them to do something outside of the situation where you normally hang out. That’s how we become friends. With time share a little bit more about yourself share more secrets and you’ll be on your way. If you want to strengthen existing relationships just do something nice. A random act of kindness for a friend or family member that you care about is going to go a long way to strengthening that relationship you have. If you are in a relationship and you want to strengthen that spend more time together without devices or turn those devices off have some uninterrupted time together.

Move Your Body

Balance rests with exercise because getting out and moving is important even though you’re exhausted. Move and exercise walking the dog taking the stairs etc. It counts especially on those days when it’s super busy. We know that one of the past antidepressants is to get your body moving get your body active. If you want to do this a few things to remember we are rarely motivated to move when we’re in a state of rest. It’s very hard to get moving. But motivation usually kicks in once you’ve started to move and your body begins to get more active. I like to remind people to make it easy to be more active. Park farther away in the parking lot so that you have to walk a little bit more. Or instead of having your lunch delivered walk to a nearby place and pick up lunch.

Don’t Expect Life To Be Always Happy

Life isn’t always happy. Don’t expect it to be. Don’t chase after happiness. Find things that are meaningful to you and chase those instead. Focus on what gives your life meaning rather than chasing fleeting happiness. Avoid the trap of comparing your life to other people’s social media highlights if you want to identify the things that are meaningful to you, here’s how you can do it. I want you to imagine it’s your one hundredth birthday. You’re surrounded by your closest friends and family the people you really love. They start to share stories about who you are what you mean to them what you stand for and what you’ve achieved in your life. What are the things that they’re saying? These are your values and if you live your life according to your values. That’s how you find meaning. That’s how you find purpose and that’s how you find connection to something that is greater than yourself.

Identify With Emotions

Learn what feelings are for sometimes even unpleasant feelings are doing an important job. Whatever your feeling makes sense somehow even if it’s irrational. So, it’s best to accept your feelings before you try to change them. Get very good at labelling what you’re experiencing inside your body. Not only is that going to help you communicate to other people what you’re feeling and help them to know what you need. But there’s a lot of research that suggests just labelling your emotions takes some of the intensity of these emotions down.

Face The Stress

Do the thing that is giving you stress. Anticipating how stressful it will be is always worse than doing it. Oh my gosh that is so true. Training yourself to develop adaptive learned responses to stress. Understand your stress. Learn what you need to do to deal with that stress the stress is giving you information. Is it because you’re underprepared? Is it because you don’t know what to do? Is it because you are overwhelmed and you need the help of friends or family? Related to experiencing emotions were all the tweets about embracing the moment. Be non-judgementally present don’t describe moments as good or bad just as they are right now in your environment. Take a moment and look at five different things happening around you now touch four different textures near you. Listen to three different sounds in the environment. Pay attention to two different smells and notice one taste. This is a quick grounding skill you can use when you need to feel more present in the moment, you’re in.

Breath A Little

Seriously just stop and take a moment. Several times a day to focus on breath only you can match inhales and exhales and just slow your breath down so you can inhale four seconds hold it for a moment and exhale for four seconds.

Sleep Peacefully

It can be easy to ignore self-care or put it off or believe that it’s selfish to engage in at all. But we can’t do or be our best for ourselves or others if we don’t take time to recharge. Shobha juju said never compromise on sleep be on a schedule including sleep. So, we’re not 100% sure why we sleep but we know sleep is super important when we get enough sleep our attention is better our memory is better, we can deal with our emotions better. We want to get better sleep. There are two things you can do. Number one wake up around the same time every day. I know it’s really hard you want to sleeping on the weekends probably because you’re sleep deprived during the week days but as much as you can wake up near the same time it’s going to help your body out a lot. The other thing you can do is get really good at dealing with insomnia. So, if you’re in bed it’s been more than usually how long it takes you to fall asleep and you’re tossing and turning. Don’t stay in bed. Get out! Go and do something that’s either soothing more boring. Just make sure it doesn’t involve a screen. The blue light from a screen might actually wake you up.

Hold Space For Duality

Your thoughts and feelings are important. Still your thoughts and feelings especially negative ones about yourself. They’re not facts. Your thoughts are just thoughts. They might be scary but they’re not dangerous.So often we get stuck between is this happening or this happening but actually both of those things might be true. Do you have a thought that really scares you fear you can get out of your head? I want you to write that down right now. Is there any way you can intentionally test this out and get some real-world data on what actually happens?

Self Care

The next section is one of my favourite topics and it’s about self-care. Taking baths exercise reading for leisure napping and spending time with loved ones. Build breaks into your day. When you go on vacation go on vacation do whatever you do to destress exercise watch dumb tv talk to colleagues about your day on the regular. It’s about being at work when you’re at work and being at home when you’re at home. So that means yes avoid those work e-mails when you’re at home. There’s still going to be there in the morning. If you can get some jobs you can’t but you should if you can. Josue

Remove Toxic People From Life

Cut toxic people out of your life. Cut toxic people out of your life. Cut toxic people out of your life. One take home message learns to say no. It’s a lot easier if you know what your boundaries are what you can do and you say no when you’re afraid you might be exceeding those boundaries

Love Something and Embrace It

Find something you love and unapologetically embrace it. I spent half my life hiding all the things that I love hiding my love of science fiction of star trek of comic books of superheroes all that sort of stuff. The second half of my life i’ve embraced it. I’ve gone to comic cons i’ve cosplayed. I talk about this stuff here on this channel and everywhere I go. That second half of my life has been a lot better. Follow sports if you like them and share that fandom with others that fandom part is so important to connect with the community and celebrate this thing that you love together. Think about a tv show a movie a sports team book anything a hobby that you love. And I want you to answer this question. What is it about this thing that you love? What does it mean to you? Now go online go to reddit find a YouTube find someone. Find a community that is related to this topic or join a meetup group related to this topic and share that share that with other people. Why you love this thing. Why it means so much to you

Do Something Apart From Work

Have something you enjoy doing that’s outside of your work outside of the thing that you do every day. Because when work is going to be more difficult it’s really nice to have something that you enjoy that’s completely unrelated to it.

Making Small Accomplishments.

Give yourself realistic challenges when you fail to learn from that and try again when you succeed. Reinforce yourself and paused to experience it rinse lather repeat. Thinking about my priorities each day and week and doing my best to let non-priorities slide. So sometimes there’s a sink of dishes. Focusing on one thing making it realistic and it’s okay if you aren’t able to achieve some type of goal learn from it and keep trying. Ask yourself what inside of me is going to get in the way of me achieving this goal and then find a way to problem-solve that to change your environment to make it easier so that that thing inside of you does not get in the way.