How to be mentally healthy?

10 tips to boost your mental health 1. Make social connection — especially face-to-face — a priority. ... Stay active. ... Talk to someone. ... Appeal to your senses. ... Take up a relaxation practice. ... 6. Make leisure and contemplation a priority. ... Eat a brain-healthy diet to support strong mental health. ... Don't skimp on sleep. More items... •

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“Mental health” refers to your overall psychological well-being. It includes the way you feel about yourself, the quality of your relationships, and your ability to manage your feelings and deal with difficulties. Anyone can experience mental or emotional health problems — and over a lifetime, many of us will. One in five Canadians lives with mental-health or substance-use problems. These tips can help you elevate your mood, become more resilient and enjoy life more.

1. Make social connection — especially face-to-face — a priority

Phone calls and social networks have their place, but few things can beat the stress-busting, mood-boosting power of quality face-to-face time with other people, especially those you love and people who energize you.

2. Stay active

Staying active is as good for the brain as it is for the body. Regular exercise or activity can have a major impact on your mental and emotional health, relieve stress, improve memory, and help you sleep better.

3. Talk to someone

Talk to a friendly face. If you have concerns, stresses or worries, sharing these with someone who cares is one of the most effective ways to calm your nervous system and relieve stress.

4. Appeal to your senses

Does listening to an uplifting song make you feel calm? Does squeezing a stress ball help you feel centred? What about taking a walk in nature and enjoying the sights and sounds of the trees? Everyone responds to sensory input a little differently, so experiment to find what works best for you.

5. Take up a relaxation practice

Yoga, mindfulness, meditation and deep breathing can help reduce overall levels of stress.

6. Make leisure and contemplation a priority

We can all be guilty of being "too busy" to take some down time, but leisure time is a necessity for emotional and mental health. Take some time to relax, contemplate, and pay attention to the positive things as you go about your day — even the small things. Write them down if you can, because they can be easy to forget. Then reflect on them later if your mood is in need of a boost.

7. Eat a brain-healthy diet to support strong mental health

Foods that can support your mood include fatty fish rich in omega-3s, nuts (walnuts, almonds, cashews and peanuts), avocados, beans, leafy greens (spinach, kale and Brussels sprouts), and fresh fruit such as blueberries.

8. Don’t skimp on sleep

It matters more than you think. Sleep is our body and mind's best way to recharge and rejuvenate. One way to get sleep better is to take a break from the stimulation of screens — TV, phones, tablets or computers — in the hours before bedtime. Consider reading or listening to relaxing music instead.

9. Find purpose and meaning

This is different for everyone but finding purpose in your day is a big factor to good mental health. You might try one of the following:

Engage in work that makes you feel useful

Invest in relationships and spend quality time with people who matter to you

Volunteer, which can help enrich your life and make you happier

Care for others, which can be as rewarding and meaningful as it is challenging

Think of one good deed or gesture to do each day

10. Get help if you need it

If you or a loved one needs support, there are many programs and resources that are available to you:

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You can find some guidance on this question in this article and this template. Here are the basics:

Your values and worldview

What do you think is important? What do you think the world is like, and how do you think we should come to beliefs about it? Your answers to these questions are part of your worldview. (For example, we discuss our worldview in our key ideas series.) Spend some time investigating and writing out answers to these questions — keeping in mind that you’ll never have a complete and fully confident answer.

Frameworks for comparing issues

Learn about different frameworks you can use to compare issues. For example, we often use the importance, neglectedness, and tractability framework, where how you assess the importance and tractability of problems is partially determined by your worldview. (See a more popular introduction to the framework.)

Start generating ideas

Once you have frameworks and your worldview clarified to some extent, you can start generating ideas for pressing problems, perhaps using other people’s lists to get started (like ours or others’ listed just below).

Compare

Now that you have your list of issues, compare them according to your worldview and using the frameworks you learned about above. Identify key uncertainties about your list, work out what research you might do to resolve those uncertainties, then go ahead and do it, and then reassess and repeat. If some of the issues on your list overlap with ours, you can use our problem profiles as a jumping-off point. Again, it would take a lifetime to get totally confident and make your list complete, so aim for action-relevant information instead. You can (and should) continue to think about which issues you think are most pressing throughout your career.

Other lists of pressing global issues, for inspiration:

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