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system’ that guides you through life, helping you make the right decisions and keeping you on track. Knowing
and living your values will lead to a sense of balance, confidence and fulfillment.
5.Identify and use your individual strengths. Using your strengths, helps you feel energized and
empowered.
6. Keep tabs on your thoughts. Without even knowing it, you might be caught in a vicious cycle of negative
thoughts, which seem to sprout naturally. Not only do these thoughts sink our mood but we also start to see
them as truths. Fortunately, we can work through these thoughts and see them for what they are: untrue and
changeable. Walls suggested monitoring your thoughts and challenging and replacing negative ones.
7.Discover or rediscover a passion. Take the time to consider your passions.
8.Do what makes you happy first thing. Sometimes it can feel like you’re going through your days on autopilot,
and that can get tedious and depressing. Start your day off on a positive note by engaging in an enjoyable
activity every morning.
9.Surround yourself with positive scents and sounds. Our surroundings can affect our well-being. You
can create a positive feeling at home with lemon, peppermint or other essential oils you love.
10.Get inspired. Find inspiration in everything from subscribing to a daily quote to listening to uplifting
audio books on the way to work to reading magazines with exciting ideas.
If you have good mental wellbeing you are able to:
1. feel relatively confident in yourself and have positive self-esteem.
2. feel and express a range of emotions.
3. build and maintain good relationships with others.
4. feel engaged with the world around you.
5. live and work productively.
6. cope with the stresses of daily life.
Hello, I am Marcin from Poland. I’ve found a few things that often have a positive impact on a person’s
wellbeing:
Exercise
Exercising is shown mostly as a way to improve your physical side: increase muscle mass, lose some weight
or trim your figure. Some forget about the mental side of things, though. People upon taking up sports or other
exercises often find a new meaning and reason for it. It gives them an enormous sense of well-being,
accompanied by sharper memories, better sleep at night and a feeling of relaxation throughout the day.
https://trainright.com/most-effective-sports-for-improving-mental-health/
https://www.fsem.ac.uk/position_statement/the-role-of-physical-activity-and-sport-in-mental-health/
Water intake and proper diet
The right amount of food and liquid intake is key to properly maintaining our body and mind. It’s known that
everybody shouldn’t eat the same things in the same amounts; it varies between people. It’s important to
know what exactly you should eat to stay healthy. Maybe you need to cut down on sugars, or perhaps increase
them? It’s possible that your current diet might be lacking certain vitamins and minerals, and that is the cause
of your health problems both mental and physical.
https://www.who.int/behealthy/healthy-diet
https://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/healthydiet/healthybalanceddiet.html
Avoiding stress and negative thoughts
Our lives are hard during all parts of our life. In childhood we have school and write tests, in college we write
long and exhausting essays and in adulthood we spend most of our available time working. That sort of life is
bound to expend much of our energy and replace it with stress and negative thoughts. While not all of it is bad
(stress can often motivate us to improve our situation) being exposed to it for long periods of time without a
break can lead to severe mental issues, such as depression and anxiety. It’s important to know how to cut