Mental Health is Required Most Important Five (5) Steps to Change the Life

MENTAL Health

The blog is just to offer you some solutions and practical steps
that we can all take to improve our mental health so whether it's anxiety or depression
or addiction or whatever you're going through I think it's easy to feel ashamed
when that's a struggle for you but just realize that there's nothing to be
ashamed of that this is a safe space and that we're all growing and learning as
we go and we're here to support each other so let's get started with the first
tip the is to

NO1.  Number one is to take a break from social
media I think a lot of people bash social media it's easy to kind of point the
finger there I think there's a lot of good to social media but there's also a reason
why more and more people are reporting being lonely and what's bizarre is we're
more connected than ever social media allows us to talk to anybody around the
world and talk to anybody instantly and see what people are up to but once they
found that the most common emotion of people scrolling through Facebook was
depression and there's different theories why but the main one is that when
you're scrolling through there's an internal comparison taking place and you're
seeing everyone else's highlight reels through just seeing people get married
or travel the world or have so much fun and so it's easy for your mental health
to take a hit when you're comparing it's like okay well what did i do today um
nothing so something my sister actually put me onto which is taking a break
from social media and doing kind of a jig detox we take a day or a few hours to
yourself so just give yourself a break and reconnect to yourself and just by doing
that by taking a break it can do wonders for your mental health especially when
you combine it with the next tip so the

NO2.  Tip is gratitude journaling gratitude is
something we've talked about a lot on this channel it's not something new and
revolutionary but there's a difference between knowing what to do and actually
having a practice that you put into place because the benefits of this practice
really show up when you're intentional about it when you integrate it into your
life and what's really cool about this is it doesn't have to be super
time-consuming doesn't have to be 20 minutes a day or an hour a day or 50
things you're grateful for studies have found that when people write just a few
sentences a week of things that they're grateful for it effectively improved
their mental health or overall happiness increases their depression decreases
and it actually retrains your brain to focus on what you're grateful for and
that's huge because in any situation whenever you're facing something that's
challenging your brain wants to go - why me this sucks but when you retrain
your brain to focus on where's the goodness how can I learn from this how can I
become better than this what can I find to be grateful for in this moment
that's life-changing because now you're changing the filter through which you
view the world and you don't have to enjoy life just when you're on the upslope
but on the downslope you can see the goodness and so overall your mental health
just improves dramatically and honestly it's such a simple but powerful
practice and it's kind of a no-brainer to incorporate this into your life to improve
your happiness and your mental health so tip number

NO3.  Is to real able and refocus and this is a really
simple two-step process that I got for the book you are not your brain based on
brain research and it's particularly useful when it comes to battling anxiety so
step one is to relay below the thought most people just accept anxious thoughts
or unhelpful thoughts as truth but with this step allows you to do is identify
the thought outside of yourself but instead of just accepting and entertaining
every depressing or limiting or anxious thought that pops in your head Yuri
label them as an anxious thought or there's a depressing thought there's a limiting
thought and where research has shown is that by labeling a thought or a feeling
or an emotion it allows you to manage it instead of letting you run your life
so that's that one step two is to refocus and whenever we experience anxiety or
depression or any challenge when it comes to mental health we all have different
ways of dealing with it and it's usually something to escape the feeling so
eating or drinking or smoking or binging it's usually the same behaviors that trigger
a destructive cycle or trap us in a loop instead of dealing with those things
in a healthy and positive way and so for this step you simply change your focus
from those destructive behaviors to something that's actually going to benefit
you and your well-being and so for me whenever I'm in a funk or peers Ematic
where I've been struggling depression all I want to do is just retreat to my
room and be alone and shut out the world and be alone with my thoughts and so
for me what that would look like is taking opposite action calling a friend
going on a run going out and doing something with people which is the last
thing I want to do and usually when it's something like this that we're
struggling with the last thing we want to do is the best thing for us and so
that's what it means to refocus and say it's actually showing similar to the
last tip that when you refocus and real able you actually train your brain to
deal with those things naturally to deal with your mental health or anxiety or
depression in a positive way and so keeping with the theme of focus.

NO.4 Tip number five is to
do for others something that was really interesting to me when I was studying and
learning more about mental health is that in order to feel depressed or anxious
or stressed our focus has to be inward has to be our own thoughts and our own
feelings but what studies have found is that when you shift your focus outside yourself
when you do for others either an act of kindness or an active service or just
something for someone else it has a powerful positive effect on your own
emotional of being how you feel about yourself how you see yourself its improvement
and it can be as simple as calling a friend and saying hey or sending a text to
somebody and telling them something that you admire about them or cooking
someone dinner doing the dishes you know I remember working at a yoga studio a
while ago I got to chatting with this lady by this really cool necklace on and
there's actually a necklace in memory of her daughter that she lost and so we
got to talking kind a lost track of time and so the yoga class that she was
going to was about to start and she rushed in and forgot to pay and I thought
I'm just gonna pay for a class what is it like five ten bucks it doesn't have
to be an extravagant action research shows that even the little things can go a
long way and make a powerful positive difference in terms of your mental health
so that's tip number

NO5. Tip number five is
going to therapy and I personally think everyone should have a therapist
everyone should be going to therapy and actually dated someone for a while
we've struggled with their mental health and sought therapist to help them
navigate that and while we were dating I actually went to a couple sessions
with her and it was awesome to just grow in our understanding of each other and
ourselves and it's probably because yes you've got your friends and you got
your family and that can go a long way but there's something about talking to
someone knows their stuff and you can help you work through it sadly I've also
had a couple friends who have struggled this area with a co-occurring disorder
or a dual diagnosis which is a combination of mental health and substance use disorders
that occur a the same time and they're no longer with us and so there's
something that I could have said or done or shared with them or given them some
tools to help them kind of navigate that that's something I wish I would have
done and so if this is a challenge that you're going through there's honestly
just nothing to be ashamed of were learning and growing and we have our own
trials and our own struggles and we're here to support each other and encourage
each other in nine so that's why I want to make this Blog to open up this
conversation I thought it was really cool that season the Malibu wanted to
partner with me in this mission and make this possible and so huge thank you to
them and just to tell you a bit more about them seasons in Malibu is a CRA
accredited dual diagnosis luxury rehab an addiction center in Malibu and they
specialize in everything from alcohol rehab the drug rehab mental health
treatment co-occurring disorders outpatient programs pairing individuals with
sober companions and aftercare and recovering planning and with that they
include cutting-edge treatments like brain spotting they do acupuncture massage
with story of therapies intensive psychotherapy and ocean adventure experiences
like kayaking and surfing and swimming which sound like a lot of fun and you can
check out more of what they do on their website but what I really like about
them and what they do is it's not just a one-size-fits-all approach they offer
a systemic approach and they work with each person and each individual on a
case by case basis to develop ok what's gonna be an effective treatment for this
individual and actually have a friend who was really near and dear to me who
went to a similar center not for addiction treatment or rehab but for an eating
disorder and they were able to get better and get the treatment that they needed
and so I'm a huge fan of centers like this I encourage you.