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Mind Yourself
How to improve and protect your mental health
Mental health is a lot more than simply the absence of mental illness. It's feeling happier more often, having healthy self-esteem, being connected to others, and being resilient when life turns negative.
Our 'How to improve and protect your Mental Health' Programme will help you move towards flourishing mental health by showing you how to incorporate five mentally healthy habits into your life.
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Emotional Resilience protects your mental health when things get difficult. Learn five skills that will help you keep mentally healthy through stressful and negative events.
Section 1:
Understanding and monitoring your mental health
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Understanding the Mental Health Spectrum: not being mentally ill is not the same as being mentally healthy.
How the NHS measures mental health: The Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (suitable for self-monitoring).
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The Human Negativity Bias and the stress response: Fight or Flight.
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Neuroplasticity: How your brain changes to support your mentally healthy habits.
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Section 2:
Mentally Healthy Habits
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Habit 1: Keeping a gratitude diary triggers joy in your life.
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Habit 2: Plan Hedonic moments into your day: They make you happy today, not in the future.
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Habit 3: Daily Acts of Kindness: Happy people become happier by counting their acts of kindness.
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Habit 4: Daily Mindfulness Meditation: A mental health superpower which can reduce depression and anxiety by over 50%.
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Habit 5: Connection: A daily act of connection can lead to a longer, happier and healthier life.
Section 3:
Emotional Resilience, skills that protect your mental health during difficult times
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Skill 1: Reduce Rumination. Rumination can trigger depression but you can learn to avoid it.
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Skill 2: Improve your emotional response to negative events using TACT.
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Skill 3: Use the Optimistic Framework, even if you are a Pessimist
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Skill 4: Forgive yourself: self criticism leads to further failures.
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Skill 5: Forgive others, let the pain go.