Strategies for Mental Well-Being; Advocating for Change on World Mental Health Day

In this fast-paced world, maintaining mental health becomes a hard thing to do. As October 10 is celebrated around the World as Mental Health Day, let’s see some tips to keep a healthy mind in a day to day life. These tips will help you avoid stress, overthinking, laziness and make the time productive.

5 Simple Easy Tips to do Every Day for a Healthy Mind

Eat Healthier

First step is to start from the inside, eating a healthy diet is an important part of taking care of your mental health. Aim to eat many fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Try avoiding Junk foods and also white sugar. Intake of white sugar has proven to slow down your brain in the long run and also it affects the liver.  Instead of taking just plain water, you can consume fruits infused water or with chia seeds. Soaking Cucumber, Mint and lemon in the drinking has many benefits including improving skin and detoxing the entire body from impurities.

Getting Enough Sleep

Sleep plays an important role in the human kind. Getting enough sleep will keep your mind healthy. Just like how a working machine gets hot aftering running for a while, same with the human brain and by sleeping, the brain will take its necessary rest. So to keep a healthy brain and mental health sleep is necessary.

Listening To Music

People won’t get enough time in this fast paced world to do exercise or meditation everyday but while walking towards the office they can just hear Music. Music has shown sudden significant reduction in anxiety level. Music literally calms your brain by firing fewer neurons in your amygdala which is a part of the brain that responds to fear.

Practice Self-Care

Doing self care in a day to day life will make you feel confident, positive and also makes you fall in love with yourself. Self Care can be physical as well by doing exercise or yoga everyday. It can be skin care, hair care or even dressing up yourself will give you a boost of happiness. In the long run, self care will reflect on a person both physically and mentally. Some self care examples can be going for a walk outside, taking a bath, lighting candles, reading a good book, exercising, practising a hobby, using a diffuser with calming scents etc.

Reduce Screen Time

Screen time is playing a vital role in today’s digital world. Reducing screen time in the evening will lead to improved sleep in the night. It gives better mental and emotional resilience. People can prefer audio books and podcasts over binge watching reels and youtube videos.

Other than these five tips you can also do deep breathing, journaling, visiting nature, playing with pets, helping someone etc also contributes to your healthy mind.