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What are the 5 steps to wellbeing?
Connect with others: Build and maintain positive relationships with others, whether it's family, friends, colleagues, or members of your community.
Be physically active: Engage in regular physical activity or exercise, which can have a positive impact on both your physical and mental health.
Take notice: Be aware of your surroundings and pay attention to the present moment. Mindfulness practices can help you be more aware and appreciate the world around you.
Keep learning: Engage in activities that challenge and stimulate your mind, such as learning a new skill, taking a course, or reading.
Give back: Do something kind or helpful for others, whether it's volunteering, donating to charity, or simply showing kindness to those around you. Giving back can boost your own sense of wellbeing and help create a positive community.
Theses steps are crucial if you want to achieve a positive mindset and a good wellbeing.
What support is out there?
Mind is a UK organization that provides information, support, and advice to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness, and promote understanding.
Mind is a UK-based mental health charity that provides information, advice, and support to those experiencing mental health problems.
Need a TL;DR of the Tedx video?
Leon was a hyperactive child who required constant attention from his parents. Instead of sedating him with drugs, his parents chose to tire him out through physical activity.
This led to Leon's career as an Olympic diver. Leon believes physical activity is crucial for both physical and mental health and can help reduce stress and improve cognitive function. He argues that people should spend more time in their bodies and less time in their heads, and that physical movement can change our experience of the world.
Ultimately, Leon believes that moving more can reduce the number of people suffering from mental health issues and improve our overall quality of life.
Leon's speech aims to promote physical activity for better physical and mental health, and encourage people to move more for a better quality of life.
A Tedx / Ted Ed video on wellbeing and how to improve it. Ted is not a official health organization.
Please always consult a professional therapist or other type of professional when trying to receive help on the topic of wellbeing.
Mind: www.mind.org.uk/
A dataset which provides data on peoples wellbeing since 2012.
Find out more about this dataset at: ons.gov.uk
Notes:
The y-axis has a break in it, meaning it does not necessarily start from zero.
Data are weighted mean averages.
The statistics and figures.
"Average ratings of well-being have improved across all four measures of personal well-being for the UK in the year ending March 2022 when compared with the previous year ending March 2021 (Figure 1). The ratings were:
7.54 out of 10 for life satisfaction (7.39 in the previous year)
7.77 out of 10 for feeling that the things done in life are worthwhile (7.71 in the previous year)
7.45 out of 10 for happiness yesterday (7.32 in the previous year)
3.12 out of 10 for anxiety yesterday (3.31 in the previous year)
For life satisfaction (0.15 point increase), happiness (0.13 point increase), and anxiety (0.18 point decrease) these were the largest year-on-year improvements since we started measuring well-being in the year ending March 2012. Average ratings for feeling that the things done in life are worthwhile also increased in the latest year (0.07 point increase), but this annual change was not as large as that seen in other years (0.08 point increase in the year ending March 2015).
Despite improvements in the latest year, average ratings for all measures of personal well-being are still below pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic levels (year ending March 2019). Average ratings declined across the years ending March 2020 and March 2021, periods that were affected by the pandemic." - ONS
What is the NHS guidance?
1. Connect with other people
Good relationships are important for your mental wellbeing. They can:
help you to build a sense of belonging and self-worth
give you an opportunity to share positive experiences
provide emotional support and allow you to support others
2. Be physically active
Being active is not only great for your physical health and fitness. Evidence also shows it can also improve your mental wellbeing by:
raising your self-esteem
helping you to set goals or challenges and achieve them
causing chemical changes in your brain which can help to positively change your mood
3. Learn new skills
Research shows that learning new skills can also improve your mental wellbeing by:
boosting self-confidence and raising self-esteem
helping you to build a sense of purpose
helping you to connect with others
Even if you feel like you do not have enough time, or you may not need to learn new things, there are lots of different ways to bring learning into your life.
4. Give to others
Research suggests that acts of giving and kindness can help improve your mental wellbeing by:
creating positive feelings and a sense of reward
giving you a feeling of purpose and self-worth
helping you connect with other people
It could be small acts of kindness towards other people, or larger ones like volunteering in your local community.
Some examples of the things you could try include:
saying thank you to someone for something they have done for you
asking friends, family or colleagues how they are and really listening to their answer
spending time with friends or relatives who need support or company
offering to help someone you know with DIY or a work project
volunteering in your community, such as helping at a school, hospital or care home " - NHS UK
Theses steps can be found on the NHS website. NHS link
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