Look After Your Mental & Emotional Health During This Lock Down!

1. Plan your day
Regular routines are essential for our identity, self-confidence and purpose. Loo
Try to start your day at roughly the same time you usually would and aim to set aside time each day for movement, relaxation, connection and reflection.

2. Move more every day
Being active reduces stress, increases energy levels, can make us more alert and help us sleep better. Morning shows the day, do fourty minutes of home work out, isotonic exercises are beneficial. Explore different ways of adding physical movement and activity to your day and find some that work best for you. Create a 300 calorie home work out gym.

3. Try a relaxation technique
Relaxing and focusing on the present can help improve your mental health and lighten negative feelings. Practice cognitive behavioral technique, cbt, and see what works best for you. Progressive muscle relaxation teaches you to recognise when you are starting to get tense and how to relax. Mindfulness techniques may also help you focus on the present rather than dwelling on unhelpful thoughts. 

4. Connect with others
Stay connected, find creative ways to keep in touch with co-workers, friends, family, and others to help you. Explore ways of connecting that work for you, whether that’s by post, over the phone, social media, or video-chat. This could be anything, from sharing a cup of tea over video, playing an online game together, or simply sending a supportive text-message.

5. Take time to reflect and practice self-compassion, introspect and make time every day to reflect on what went well. It's important to recognise your successes and the things you are grateful for, no matter how small. Consider keeping a gratitude journal each day where you could write two or three of these things every night before you go to b

6. Improve your sleep
Feelings of uncertainty and changes to daily life may mean you have more difficulty sleeping. Follow strict pre sleep habits and stick to your bed time. A warm shower, soothing music, watching your breath and visual imagery techniques are very useful for good sleep, avoid day time naps.

7. Nurture your lost hobby
Nurture and rejuvenate your self with some cathartic hobbies like cooking, gardening, pottery, painting, instrumental music etc, go to your core and see what helped you in past.