Keeping your mind and body active can improve your wellbeing.
Regular physical activity can:
- increase self-esteem
- reduce stress
- reduce anxiety
- help prevent the mental health problems
- improve quality of life
Activity that raises your heart rate and makes you breathe faster, counts towards your exercise! This could include:
What impact does physical activity have on wellbeing?
Just 10 minutes’ increases our mental alertness, energy, and mood!
Where do we start?
At home, at work, out and about!
Nature snacking
Research shows that nature restores our relationships, our minds, and our bodies.
🌴Find nature wherever you are
🥰 Connect with nature using all of your senses
It’s not just physical activity that is good for your wellbeing, but mindfulness too!
Here are a few mindfulness activities you can do with your family:
Creative-Mindfulness-Resource.pdf
Check out some tips below on how to get the most from mindfulness:
If you would like support for your mental health, please view these helpful websites or speak to anyone within your SSAFA Community Health team.
https://togetherall.com/en-gb/
https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/military/
https://www.ssafa.org.uk/get-help/mental-wellbeing
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/explore-mental-health/a-z-topics/armed-forces-and-mental-health
Mental health - NHS (www.nhs.uk)