5 Steps To Mental Health

We know what to do to stay healthy physically: eat right, exercise, do not overwork, and a lot of walking. It turns out that some of this work and mental health. If you no ill, a few good habits to help improve mood.

What is needed for a healthy psyche

A man needs to know that he can do what he wants. Confidence, satisfaction with life, joy and employment, a sense of oneness with the world is also important for the mental state, as well as self-esteem. A person needs good relations that bring satisfaction.

Happiness - it's part of the mental health. But happiness - that's not all.

Sarah Stewart-Brown, a professor of medicine at the University of Warwick

Mentally happy man, too, is facing difficulties, he can not be happy at all times. But in the days of heavy healthy person knows that he has enough strength and ability to cope. No one can ensure the well-being of man is better than he. UK National Health Service considersThat it takes only five steps.

It works the way to make yourself better. Even if it seems that something does not suit you, do not dismiss these tips. Think maybe your life will find a way to somehow use them. And if you still do it, but do not feel the very well-being, whether you're doing wrong?

How to achieve mental health

1. Communicate with people

With your family, friends or colleagues, neighbors. No need to talk with everyone, especially if the very idea to call relatives, caused consternation.

The man - a social animal, so communication with others increases self-esteem and gives a sense of belonging to something greater.

The strong relationships with family and friends, we share our feelings, we understand, we get support and other support themselves and the opportunity to give no less important for us than being able to receive. And another important detail: if the people around you happy and know how to be happy, you learn the same from them.

How to work on a relationship

Communicate with family and friends, loved ones. Learn to listen and support, as well as to talk about themselves. Optionally, expand the circle of friends is more important to make communication within it interesting.

Also expand professional contacts, communicate with people with the same hobbies or the same professional duties. It is necessary not only for the psychological comfort, but simply to gain knowledge.

It is easy to say but harder to do, especially when the social networks create the illusion of a contact. Like to visit the page and not the same talk. These tips will help maintain a close relationship, not replacing them with huskies:

• Try to use these programs for communication, which allows to hear the voice or see the person. Take time to the relationship. Every day in the schedule must be time for friends and family. Call, come to visit, schedule a meeting, send a postcard, but do not limit yourself Like in the social network. Even socialize in the messenger.
• Select a day to meet friends whom you have not seen for a long time. It is not necessary to spend the whole day together. It is better to visit some event if you have not communicated, it may be awkward pause in the conversation, as in a movie or show, you can always something to discuss. Do not plan to meet for a few hours, but do not hammer after her schedule. If you find that you want to talk longer, you will be able to prolong the conversation.
• If in the evening you watch TV or sit on the Internet, try to replace the gadgets somewhat closer together. Buy board game and play as a family. Or just talk on abstract themes. If you do not know what to say to the family, arrange a discussion club: open the site with news and discuss them or even take a theme from any textbook English.
• Talk to someone new: a colleague from another department, with the person with whom you do every day on the bus crosses.
• Dine together with colleagues and communicate, if the collective relationships allow to talk.
• If you know that someone from friends or family needs help, offer it today.
• Participate in social activities: in the clean at work, collecting things for the orphanage, to protect the interests of their home or area. Select the option that do not through force.

2. Always keep learning

Studies helps to keep the brain in shape and reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. It also gives rise to love yourself as a sport. We learn, then, we are fine. It is very important to feel comfortable.

It is not necessary to teach foreign languages ​​or to get another higher education. What is important is the process: read the professional literature, to develop skills. Go on a cooking course. Read non-fiction and fiction books. Learn new knitting scheme or make the original stand to store the bike.

The main thing - to seek new ways.

If the topic is not interesting to you, do not learn it just because it has already begun. Go to the lesson, take the brain's pleasure. Me busy even useful, because it has to switch between different activities.

3. Head

To move, you can not go to the gym or for a jog. It is important that the body works and how it is - a matter of choice. Someone like team sports like volleyball, someone prefers to dance, and someone - a walk with the dog. Activity is necessary not only for the body but also the brain.

Mental problems, even the most insignificant - it is the same chemistry, as well as all processes in the body. Physical training - a method to adjust the chemical process using the hormone which are released in response to actions.

Another plus - when we are engaged in sports, I think it's great. Sports - a reason to be proud of themselves, another reason that should love yourself.

• Pick sportThat you like.
• Begin to engage regularly.
• necessarily fixHow you are changing.

4. do good

It's easier than it seems. Do not even need to look for old ladies to put them across the street, or to donate part of their salary to the fund.

Say "thank you" to the bus driver, who dovoz you in the morning before work, wish good morning to the guard, smile at the cashier in the supermarket. It is simple, but the brain puts these activities in the treasury of "good works", as it acts on the same chemistry as the sport.

The second level - easy care. Explain newbie at work, as easy to cope with the tasks, help the parent committee at the school, Convey an elderly neighbor to door products help parents with stroller to get into the public transport.

If you have the desire to do more can join the volunteer activity, only pre vote their strength.

5. Not divorced from reality

Mental health is important to live in the present, not thinking about the past and what has not happened (and may never happen).

It is necessary to live in the present, and feel your body. Some call it a state of awareness.

This is a condition in which you know exactly what's going on around you and with you. Only it seems that it is just as well really requires attention and uncompromising integrity. For example, to understand why you are angry not because of the fact that home again, not washed the dishes, but because you irritated in the morning because of the failure on the job, and now just looking for an excuse to splash out irritation.

thanks awareness we take the right decisions, because we understand all the circumstances and know what we want. Awareness is not just a pretty word, but a way of understanding life. It is necessary for our mental health.