5 simple ways to look after your mental health

As the pandemic continues to take a toll of our minds and our lives, it’s more critical today to look after our mental health.?

This makes it important to focus our attention on our mind and adopt strategies that empower us to be at our best shape in our mind and our life.

Here are 5 simple ways to start looking after your mind.

1 - Slow down

When all the noise in our modern world, specially during this pandemic, are overstimulating our minds, the best thing we can do is to consciously slow down to take back our control on our life.?

With an overstimulated mind, we cannot enjoy our life and perform at our best. Stress, anxiety, lack of concentration, loss of productivity and creativity, and more would be the outcome.?

By learning to slow down, we can claim back our ability to thrive in life.

With an overstimulated mind, we cannot enjoy our life and perform at our best.

2 - Increase your focus?

Our mind is the root of life experiences.?

When we increase our ability to focus, we have more control on the content of our mind, and therefore on how we experience and respond to our life situations.?

This is specially important during this unprecedented time..

With simple techniques, we can increase our focus and enhance our experience of life even in this challenging time.

When we increase our ability to focus, we have more control on the content of our mind, and therefore on how we experience and respond to our life situations.?

3 - Meditate?

Mediation is scientifically proven to improve our mental health among many of its other benefits. It is a scientific method that slows down the mind, increases its focus and improves its performance.?

Meditation is an effective way to reduce stress and anxiety, improve our cognitive function and boost our immune system.?

Learn meditation from a good teacher and have a daily meditation routine to reap its many benefits.

4 - Spend time in nature

Science shows that spending time is nature has many benefits for our mental and physical well-being. Improved cognition, reduced stress and anxiety, and improved immune function is among them.?

Take a walk in a natural area for at least a few minutes a day to look after your mental health and boost your productivity.

5 - Practice gratitude?

Gratitude is about recognising and appreciating the good things in life.?

It is a great way to shift your focus from what’s missing to what’s present in your life. That makes it specially an important practice to adopt in this unprecedented time.?

Because focusing on the blessings that you have rather than the problems reduces stress and anxiety and increases your level of happiness.

Practice gratitude on a daily basis to improve your well-being.

Focusing on the blessings that you have rather than the problems reduces stress and anxiety and increases your level of happiness.

For more tips, check out my book “Grow Your Mind, Grow Your Life,” where I share simple, quick, and science-based techniques to look after your mental health. These simple yet highly effective techniques empower you to increase your focus, remove stress & anxiety, improve your productivity, and unlock your best life.?

Visit www.drnarjes.com to learn more.

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