Why do you need mental health care?
Habits that are good for health and well-being are extremely important for everyone. It affects every aspect of life. Those habits will help you achieve your goals. At the same time reduce dangerous diseases and strengthen the body. Let's find out with Nguyen what those 5 habits are.
5 good habits for mental health
1. Start practicing meditation
More and more people are turning to meditation as a way to relax, nourish and develop the mind. Meditation for beginners is both inexpensive, easy to do, and has no space limitations. In particular, meditation brings a lot of benefits to health and spirit.
Meditation not only helps you relax your mind, prevent mental depression, but also helps you focus and work more effectively. When meditating, the body and mind are relaxed, helping to reduce stress, forgetting the feeling of fatigue and anxiety. Just 5-10 minutes of meditation every day will help your mental health and brain be much better.
2. Make a habit of practicing Yoga regularly
Yoga is not only a good physical exercise, but it also helps relieve body aches such as pain neck shoulder neck, lower back pain, hip pain, ... Yoga is also a discipline to help your mind relax. Reduce headaches, improve blood circulation, and help you sleep better.
Especially, if using Yoga as a good habit. It would be a great way to help change behaviors and lifestyle thoughts, improve mindfulness, and reduce negative thoughts. These factors can help you reduce your food intake and be aware of the effects of overeating, or make healthy dietary changes like going vegan or choosing to eat more vegetables. Yoga can make you more aware of how different foods affect your mind, body, and spirit. Form a habit of regular exercise to avoid bad effects on the body.
3. Get enough sleep and on time
Sleep is an important factor in determining health status. Insomnia or lack of sleep causes a lot of mental illnesses. Such as stress, lack of concentration, depression, irritability and mood swings. This also greatly affects our work efficiency and relationships around us.
About 22-23h is the right time to sleep. Because then, body temperature and levels of the stress hormone cortisol begin to drop, the brain also begins to produce melatonin – a sleep hormone, which helps you fall asleep easily.
People often think that 8 hours of sleep is enough for each person, but it depends on age:
- Teenagers (14-17 years old) need 8-10 hours of sleep per day
- Young adults and adults (18-64 years old) need 7-9 hours of sleep per day
- Elderly people (over 65 years old) need 7-8 hours of sleep per day.
Repeat the right sleep habits and get enough sleep and you will see an unexpected change in your health and spirit!
4. Limit your time surfing social networks
With the development of applications such as Tiktok, Facebook, etc. It will be difficult for you to take time to take care of your mental health because a lot of time has been lost for surfing social networks.
Electronic devices are also a cause of eye and nervous system problems. Specifically, excessive use of social networks can lead to symptoms of ADHD, depression, anxiety and insomnia, impaired vision and symptoms such as dry eyes, burning eyes, severe eye fatigue. .
Besides, the content on social networks has both negative and positive. If you do not choose carefully when watching, you will receive unhealthy content, creating feelings of envy, inferiority, dissatisfaction with life, making you always in a state of stress and unable to control your mind. mind becomes comfortable.
So limit your time surfing social networks to take care of your health, learn new things and travel to connect with nature.
5. Connect the relationships around
In addition to pursuing goals in work and career. Then another very important thing that we cannot ignore in life. It's about spending time connecting with friends and family. This is one of the ways to improve your mental and emotional health.
Family and friends are the spiritual and material support for us in life. When work or problems arise, it's even more important to stay connected to these relationships. Sometimes just a reunion dinner or a meeting makes our mood better. And we realize many positive and valuable things in life. But at least spend 5 minutes texting or calling a friend or relative. To feel better, and maintain it to stay connected for a long time.
Nguyen hopes that the above sharing will be effective and useful for your health. Please follow and wait with Nguyen the posts about health and next Yoga!
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