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Mental Health Awareness Week
18th - 24th May
1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health issue. How do you look after your
mental health? What helps and what doesn't? Knowing the answers to these
questions is part of having a good awareness of how to stay mentally healthy.
According to research, there are 5 types of activities that, when done regularly,
can help us feel well. You may have come across this model in your Wellbeing
class at Back on Track!
The 5 Ways to Wellbeing
Ways to connect:
Call a trusted friend
Share your story
Send someone a postcard
Join a new group
Get to know someone better
Ways to take notice:
Try some meditation
List what you're grateful for
Notice how you feel today
Try a body scan exercise
Enjoy each moment
Ways to give:
Clap for the NHS every Thurs
Check up on your neighbour
Give someone a compliment
Start a charity box
Smile at someone
Ways to be active:
Try some yoga on YouTube
Walk around the park
Take the stairs (not the lift)
Do some gardening for 30 mins
Dance!
Ways to keep learning:
Look up a new word
Read for 10 minutes
Try the Peak Brain app
Ask questions & be curious
Do a puzzle or jigsaw
Build your own
wellbeing 'toolbox'
Having ideas or 'tools' to hand for your mental wellbeing is important.
Your task this week is to write down all of the ways that you could
connect, be active, give, keep learning and take notice using the
examples given above to start you off. Then, if you find you're not having a
great day, you can look at the list and pick an activity to try.