Mental Health In A Minute/ One-Hundred and One, One Minute Lessons To Improve Your Life

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Although our routines make us more efficient and enhance our feelings of security and safety, a little change of pace can perk up a tedious schedule. Alter your jogging route, plan a road-trip, take a walk in a different park, hang some new pictures or try a new restaurant.

Physical Activity and Mental Health

Keep alcohol use to a minimum and avoid other drugs. Sometimes people use alcohol and other drugs to "self-medicate" but in reality, alcohol and other drugs only aggravate problems. Seeking help is a sign of strength — not a weakness. And it is important to remember that treatment is effective.

People who get appropriate care can recover from mental illness and addiction and lead full, rewarding lives. Toggle navigation Toggle search. Try these tips to help find the right balance in your life.

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Physical Activity and Mental Health

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1. Value yourself:

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You can get caught in a harmful cycle:. To work properly, your body needs regular exercise - and most of us feel good when we are active. Until the last years or so, you had to be quite active to just live your everyday life. Now, in modern Western societies, so much of what we used to do is done by machines.

We drive cars, so we walk less, vacuum cleaners make cleaning easy, and washing is done by a machine. So how can you start to get more active, day to day? But - it doesn't have to be about running around a track or working out in a gym. It can just be about being more active each day — perhaps just walking more, or taking the stairs rather than the lift.

If medical problems stop you from doing one thing, there may be others that you can do. Broadly speaking, the less you do, the more likely you are to end up with:. Even a small change can boost your morale, give you a sense of achievement and help you to feel better in yourself. As regularly as you can.

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If you keep to your routine and exercise at times like this, you will almost certainly feel better. If you are tired, exercise tends to give you energy. If you are worried, it can take your mind off your concerns for a while.

Mental Health In A Minute/ One-Hundred and One, One Minute Lessons To Improve Your Life

You may find it helpful to listen to music at the same time. Being active will generally help you to sleep but, if you exercise late in the evening, you may find it difficult to settle. A short walk will boost your energy level for much longer. Exercise can also help you to cope better by improving how you feel about yourself and getting you together with other people. It can certainly be harder to get active when you are depressed. But being active lifts your mood and gives you a sense of being in control and in touch with other people.

If you are normally very active, you may get depressed if, for any length of time, you can't exercise because of an injury. If this does happen, you can carry on with exercises using those parts of your body that are not injured. This will help you to keep fit, feel more in control and keep in touch with other people. It can help to set yourself targets — both for the next few days and longer, for the next weeks or months.

Some athletes such as those in weight-related sports like horse racing, boxing and gymnastics are more likely to develop eating disorders.

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