National Workouts and Well-being Week March 2019 | Raise awareness of mental health and improve well-being through exercise and mindfulness | Healthy Self-Love

Raise awareness of mental health and improve well-being through exercise and mindfulness

Did you know that 25 march is the week of National Workout and Well-being 2019?

It is extremely important to raise awareness, support those around you that are suffering from a mental health problem, and seek help if you feel you are suffering from any form of mental illness or mental health problem.

Mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It determines how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. 

It is a serious issue. Seek some help and help others!

What is mental health?

Mental health is a situation where an individual is realizing her/his potential can be a stressful life, can work productively and can contribute to society without depression, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, etc.

However, there is no clear determinant in distinguishing between those who have good mental health and who are not. There are many levels of mental health. There are no one criteria that can be used to prove good mental health.

It depends on the individual, social and environmental factors. 

What is mindfulness?

A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feeling, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.

With the many demands in life accompanied by pressure, it is not a surprising thing if someone gets easily feel stressed and disturbed mental health. Career, business, relationship, romance, family, finance, lack of sleep, even traffic jams can contribute to a person's mental stability. 

What is feared if a person's mental disturbance will slowly change the character to become negative and increasingly severe? 

Do not let it be experienced by yourself. 

There is a lot of things you can do to re-balance your mental health and mindfulness. Listed below is what we all should do in our daily life.

Value yourself

Do you value yourself? How much does your life cost? On a scale 1 - 10, what is your number? If you value yourself more than that then you knew your self-worth. However, some would value themselves a '0'. 

Baby girl... Everyone knows that the 1 - 10 scale is nothing. We all worth more than that. We are priceless. We can't be bought with money. We are more than that. 

You should never compare yourself with others. The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday. Be a better you, for you.

Reduce stress or deal with your stress

Spoiler alert! On 1 April 2019 is stress awareness month and on that date, I will be posting a blog post about how to reduce stress and deal with it. Subscribe for the more great post!

People are full of stress, you see someone who is always smiling and happy. But we never know what's truly in their hearts. It's easy to fake it, on the inside only we know what's truly happen.

Please avoid drinking alcohol when you're stress. Think about your body, alcohol only making it worse, make you overthinking about things that you shouldn't think.
Do something you love, find a hobby, read a book, write something or anything. 

Smile more :)

Yep, smiling to a stranger is a bit cringy, but then isn't it great if a stranger smile back to you! 

Hit me on my email and just send me a smile or an emoji. That will also make my day! 

Never Lie

Why never lie? 

You can't just spread lie and slander people! Do you feel good about it? Do you feel comfortable hanging out with someone you lie? If it does, then there's something wrong with you. 

Seek helps from people that can help you. Maybe you find it funny to lie or slander people. You need to find a hobby. A good hobby that doesn't involve people hearts and feeling.

Try to always speak the truth. But then, still depends on the situation may be something about involving a person serious sickness, someone just died or any bad news. But eventually, you still need to tell the truth.

Don't let the person hanging around believing in lies.

Surround yourself with good people

I always said these, always inhale the good vibe for a good life. 

You attract what you fear. Remember when you're in the elementary school and you're scared if the teachers pick you and suddenly the teachers just pick you!

Always have positive energy with yourself and if you think you don't then surround yourself with good people. 

Take care of your body

Eat some nutritional food that your body needs. The good body comes with good health! Chew your food properly so you don't have indigestion later and always drink for 2 -3 liters of water a day.

Consume a health supplement if you want to. But always consult with your doctor first before you're consuming any health supplement product.

Exercise

Don't be a lazy bump. Just walk for a 30 minute around your house, let your sweat out. Do these once a day. At least your sweat is out and you do it consistently. 

Find a good song that you can listen while you're on exercise to give you positive energy.

Also on YouTube, there's a lot of video about working out in 10 minutes, 30 minutes, and many more. Scroll your feeds on YouTube and find the Workout guide that you want to do.

sleep more

Sleeping always influences our daily life. 

Good sleep = More energy

Lack of sleep = Less energy, hard to focus and feels tired

I remember sleeping on my tiny bed and waking up in the morning and feels body aching and it feels like I just exercise for 12 hours straight.

Meditate

Find ease in your mind.

Meditation is like an exercise for our brains. It improves our memory, empathy, and self-love similar to how we exercise for weight loss, muscle strength, and body health. 

Use Essential oils to enhancing your meditation and giving you more clarity and peace of mind. Use the oils in a diffuser or rub the oil on your skin.

The soothing fragrance or aromatherapy helps to de-stress, relax, and focus on your breathing.

Talk to people

Just say something simple to anyone, say 'Hey' to a stranger, 'good morning' to your neighbor. It will increase self-confidence while increasing social aspects.

Get out of your comfort zone that is always silent and wait for other people to be greeted because of prestige or ego. If someone else's response is negative, it's that the people have negative behavior. 

Stay positive and never listen to bad things.

Give yourself something

Maybe a snack? A fancy dinner? A spa? A gift? Or a memory? 

You can give something to yourself. Sometimes it's the little thing that is making us happy. Always have the gratitude of attitude

Hobby

Like I said before, find something that you love. A hobby that can make you feels happy. Don't find a hobby that involves other people feeling. You know what I mean.

Sometimes people do a prank to someone for a hobby. If that person just having a really bad day, please don't make it worse. Just do a simple joke and it will make someone smile.

You know some prank can go wrong. Always know your limit.

Go out

Even if it's only 10 minutes in a day, spent time on sitting at your yard, balcony, swing chair. Smells the nature, the fresh air, sees the green grass, the blues skies and know that God already created everything beautifully just to see a smile on your face.

This will instantly lift up a lot of stress levels in your mind and replenish energy in the body.

Pray

Lastly, is a prayer. Your faith will help to heal you

Several studies show that praying might help alleviate worries and if you get what you need by a prayer, never forget God.

Praying for help to boost self-esteem, self-confidence. But actually, it really helps with everything. Trust in your faith.

It's important to raise awareness about mental health, and do all you can to assist patients and loved ones who are trying to deal with mental health conditions. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood through adulthood.

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