No question about it, new year’s resolutions are a great thing: It makes you think about what you want to achieve in the next twelve months – a good way to sort thoughts and to set goals.
2020 you should expand these resolutions in addition to Job Fitness and private life to a head: the own mental health. Because not only the body wants to be prepared for everyday life, but also the head.
These five unusual tips to strengthen the Psyche and thus help to make everyday life a little easier.
1. A gratitude book launch
A gratitude book is similar to a diary, and is something completely different. In this small booklet is the best-always ready to hand on the bedside table, to write before going to bed only those things for which one is grateful.
The best summing up this short and just stitch on writes the points, because the gratitude book should be no unpleasant homework, and they quickly tired of that.
It is, incidentally, no matter how many points you listed – what’s important is to write only beautiful things, even if they may appear so small.
A support deck made of more than before? Write it down! The bus driver greeted when Boarding friendly? Write it down! A work colleague proceeded to get? Write it down!
2. Thoughts go traveling
When you Meditate, it is often said, to banish all thoughts are either completely out of the head or unfiltered to allow.
Both are hard to overcome, when the Stress takes over.
To the care of their own mental health journeys are therefore. As with the gratitude book, there is only one rule: The trip should be engaged in something Positive.
For example, imagine you’re snorkeling in a beautiful reef: What fish can you see? How do you feel about the water? And the sun, the hits from the top of the sea?
Or take a mental journey through the mountains and look at the moss carefully, that grows on the trees.
3. No cell phone when Meeting with friends
When it comes to mental health, is always the talk of Smartphones, constant accessibility and social media. Because one thing is clear: The digital life Stress, both positive and negative causes.
For 2020, however, to undergo, to go all techno stress out of the way, is simply utopian.
A simple but basic change but it can cause a lot of: as soon As one is out with friends, the mobile phone out of your Hand.
No messages, no photos (which should be done by someone else), no phone calls, no E-Mails. Only for this limited period of time. This short mobile phone lots of time relieves the mind and allows for more uninterrupted time with the loved one.
Important: The Smartphone remains in the pocket when the others take her in Hand. These moments one can use to his environment consciously perceive.
4. Love spreading in social networks
Techno-stress is the fact that it is online faced with a lot of Negative. This can be both bullying experiences, as well as the classic news: In the network, a big Minus is often.
This can and should be set against an awareness of the own Online behavior change by making every day a small positive contribution.
A serious personal compliment with Instagram, a good purpose, re-tweet, or a good review about a Restaurant/Hotel/Museum etc., that you have recently visited, are small Gestures of the digital experience.
5. The inner child discover
To laugh more, to play the good old games, which is also known from his Childhood, a Ball against the wall and throw him back in the field, ice skating, sledding, or a bath with lots of foam to take little things like this break up the routine.
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