Boost Your Mental Health With These 5 Simple Daily Habits

“Our mental state largely comes down to what we do on a daily basis.

Our habits and routines either support or sabotage the state of our minds. This is good news, because it means we can improve our mental health by simply optimizing our habits. These don’t need to be big, herculean actions either. Small steps, repeated often, lead to big results.

Here are 5 simple daily habits that will boost your mental health.

1. Keep a Consistent Sleep-Wake Schedule

Pick both a wake time and bedtime you can stick to every day of the week. Your body doesn’t know when it’s the weekend.

2. Get Outside

Humans have not evolved to sit inside under artificial lights. In fact, this can actually harm both our mental and physical health. You need to make an effort to get outside on a regular basis. And when you can’t be outside, at least sit near a window when possible.

3. Meditate

Meditation gives you the mental space and clarity to handle any adversity. It allows you to recognize, process, and manage thoughts. And in most cases, negative thought patterns are what lead to the breakdown of mental health.

4. Eat Single-Ingredient Foods

Our brains are made up of the foods we have eaten, which means if we want to take care of our minds, we need to be eating well. A single-ingredient food is a food as it comes in nature — fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, nuts, seeds, etc. These are made up of just one ingredient, not a list of ingredients.

5. Limit Cheap Sources of Dopamine

Get your dopamine from productive sources — such as working out, working on meaningful projects, and pursuing the things that interest you.”

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✨Takeaway: Our norms and behaviors may help or hurt our mental states. Doing simple things such as adjusting our routines may boost our mental health. Small steps taken frequently can have a tremendous impact.

✨Reflection: What are some ways you can boost your mental health?

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