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Improving our Well-being: Mindfulness Stop! Before Improving our Well-being: Mindfulness Stop! Before your brain instantly clouds over with groups sitting in circles, and slow deep voices asking you to focus on your breathing, let’s cut through the cliché. Mindfulness is simply becoming aware of your physical body and your environment within this moment, it can be done anywhere and doing almost anything (particularly physical activities). It involves focussing your attention away from your internal thoughts about the future, the past, worries, fears judgements and instead on what is happening now in your body, around you, and your mind. Some benefits can be improved mood/emotional regulation, improved relationships, and a decrease in stress and anxiety (there are more benefits). There are lots of websites and apps that can help to learn mindfulness. My suggestion (if you’re struggling with the guided meditation types) try to do something you enjoy (anything) and just take a moment to think about what your body is doing - what you can sense (see, smell, hear, feel, taste?), and then check in with how you’re feeling at that moment. There isn’t a right or wrong way to feel, but if you can recognise how you are, you can start to work on what you need at that time.
Improving our well-being: Touching base with value Improving our well-being: Touching base with values. When was the last time (if ever), you asked yourself what is the most important thing(s) to you in life? For example is it family, or spending time in nature, or earning a living, or maintaining a spiritual connection? Follow-up question what are the most important things about who you are? For example are you someone that is honest, or caring, or a good listener, or brave, or optimistic? Sometimes our thoughts about life, ourselves and the world don’t match up with how we behave, it can create a sense of unease, dissatisfaction or leave us feeling lost. It is important to think about what is important in life and what we value so if we lose sight of ourselves and our purpose, we can start putting ourselves on a course correction.
Loneliness: It can be easy to feel isolated and a Loneliness: It can be easy to feel isolated and alone - easy to feel but difficult to experience. If you are feeling alone or know someone who feels alone have a look at some of these ideas: https://endingloneliness.com.au/resources Reaching out can mean feeling vulnerable, which is uncomfortable but try to keep going, be kind to yourself and others. - - #endinglonliness #mentalhealthrecovery
Improving our wellbeing – Acts of Self-love I’m sure that title will cause a few giggles, however in this case it simply means to acknowledge and show ourselves appreciation. Some of us will have heard of the term “self-care”, if you can’t quite manage the “L” word, try to care for yourself instead. This looks different for all of us but starts with carving out some time in our busy lives to think about what we enjoy or appreciate doing (for ourselves). Self-love/care are not self-ish, they are very important to recharging our emotional batteries and lower our stress levels. Meaning (hopefully) we are better able to handle the day and challenges that may come up. Parents and caregivers beware: it is very easy for us to put ourselves as the lowest priority however if this always happens, over time our tolerance and ability to respond in a mindful way will be reduced and in the end affect our ability to care for others. Some of my acts of self-care are to draw and paint, to swim in the ocean, occasionally I even read a book. What do you do just for you? #mentalwellbeing #mentalwellness #selflove #selfcare #recoverycoach
What is Mental Health Recovery? Most people that h What is Mental Health Recovery? Most people that haven't experienced significant mental health concerns haven't heard of this term. Even people who have don't necessarily know what it means or haven't experienced it. The word recovery often misleads, people can assume it means getting back to where life was before. Mental Health Recovery isn't about regaining what was, it is about moving forwards, learning to meet the challenges of well-being and building a good life now. This is often different to what was before. Mental Distress, Trauma, Illness, first episodes or breakdowns can have a significant impact on how we view the world. While our core self and values probably haven't changed, our beliefs and thoughts can and do change based on our experiences. The idea of (re)building a life can be difficult to contemplate, particularly when we're still busy just trying to gather the pieces of ourselves and hold onto who we are. There are family, friends and services that can support this journey. It just takes one person to reach out, someone who believes in a different possibility, someone who sees the potential, someone willing to help to start this process. #mentalhealth #mentalhealthsupport #recoverycoach #mentalhealthrecovery
Mental health, a bit like physical health involves Mental health, a bit like physical health involves many moving and interrelated parts. Unlike physical health you can’t take scans, blood tests, or examinations that concretely define your “mental health”. So what is “Mental health” and what does “healthy” look like. There are many points of view on this. I think on a very simple level Mental health is: “how you’re going inside of your head” - How we currently are: feelings, energy, motivation, stress levels, thoughts etc. - State of mind over time: we all go through ups and downs, it’s a normal part of each day. To get a better understanding of who we are and how we are going we need to think of the bigger picture. How am I going managing stress now, but also over the last few weeks, or months? I am really upset now but how have I been feeling this month? And mentally heathy? - How we presently are compared to “normal”. This is where it gets tricky, some people believe that mental health is based around how you compare to other people but for me I mean how you compare to what “your normal” is. - How we are compared to the “ideal”. Another tricky one because some people would say that the ideal is to be like most other people, or that the ideal is defined by the society we live in. I mean figuring out what you think is ideal for yourself, and how you compare to that. I started writing this post, thinking it would be a simple post. The more you think on things though, the more you realise there isn’t one clear answer. What do you think? What is “mental health” and what do you think “mentally healthy” means?
Ebb and Flow Recovery, a recovery coaching service Ebb and Flow Recovery, a recovery coaching service supporting participants of the NDIS to find their good life.
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