How to Improve Your Mental Health

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Stressed, sad, or just feeling blah? There are lots of ways to improve your mental health.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A fitness routine
Meditation
A journal
A hobby
A volunteer job
Modest goals
A sunny attitude
A fitness routine
Meditation
A journal
A hobby
A volunteer job
Modest goals
A sunny attitude

Step 1: Exercise

Get into some kind of fitness routine. Regular exercise releases endorphins, reduces stress, and improves your energy levels.

Step 2: Meditate

Meditate for a few minutes each morning, even on weekends. It will help you start each day relaxed and collected.

Tip: To meditate, sit quietly with your eyes closed, focus on your breathing, and clear your mind.

Step 3: Keep a gratitude journal

Take a few moments daily to jot down what you are grateful for that day. Research shows that this simple habit improves your outlook on life.

Step 4: Set a sleep schedule

Get on a sleep schedule that provides seven or eight hours of shut-eye every night. Not sleeping enough or sleeping too much can both lead to lethargy.

Step 5: Take up a hobby

Take up a hobby—studies show it can improve both your mental and physical health.

Tip: If stress is your problem, take up sewing, knitting, or crocheting. Research shows these are some of the most relaxing activities around.

Step 6: Volunteer

Take on a volunteer job, even if it's just for a few hours a month. People who help others are happier than those who don't.

Step 7: Set goals

Set goals for yourself. Keep them simple and attainable, so you'll feel like you're making progress when you reach them.

Step 8: Focus

Stop multi-tasking! True joy comes from concentrating on one task so intently that you enter what's called a "flow state," that pleasurable feeling of being "in the zone."

Step 9: Confront negatives

Rather than trying to ignore them, confront problems in your life head-on so they stop eating away at you.

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[OtterpopSlaughterMop]

Alcohol, smoking and abusing my loved ones seems to work fine for me.

[YTmes]

When JESUS CHRIST comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, HE will sit on his glorious throne. TURN TO JESUS CHRIST !

[animeoverload11]

0:39 left because i aint comminting

[fsck]

Ignoring problems rules

[CoxTH]

A sunny attittude, if I have a sunny attitude, I don't have to follow those tips.

[rubytski]

@YTmes dear friend, dont live with your eyes fixed on a book, what about reality ?

[livelobster123]

@YTmes What does that have to with the video?

[coa1979liw]

why do mental health professionals cite meditation and being spiritual? most don't do that in Western society, it's an Eastern thing.

[KINGPissedALoT]

Thumb Whore's ^^

Fruit cake's and Nutter's Below.

[TheKenfig]

@Murdilizer I see, not that Youtube 'friendships' have very much significance of course ; it merely says someones name on one's personal 'page'. But do you disagree with that information then ?, as it is not subjective opinion, it is medical fact

[Murdilizer]

@TheKenfig i like to be friends with people that i disagree with.....i like to have perspectives other than my own

[TheKenfig]

@Murdilizer Incidentally, if you asked me to 'get a life' because I mentioned some neurological and hormonal processes and effects which make many people feel bad, why did you then request my 'friendship' on Youtube ??