Psychology Today: 5 Ways to Boost Your Mental Health for Spring
"As spring begins and the days grow longer, many people feel a sense of potential. If you live in a place where the winters are particularly cold, warmer weather and the ability to spend more time outdoors can feel like a godsend. Flowers are blooming, birds singing, and in many cultural and religious traditions, Spring brings a sense of rebirth and renewal.
1. Reprioritize your sleep
As daylight lasts longer into the evening, it can be tempting to go to bed even later than usual. And as much as more time outdoors can be good for you, and as much as your increased energy might make you feel like you don't need as much sleep, the truth is most of us are still likely underslept and suffering from poor-quality slumber.
2. Change up your physical space
Changing up your visual life, even by just rearranging your furniture, or trying a different hairstyle, can provide a burst of novelty that gets you out of a bored rut, and can help improve your cognitive flexibility as you try things that you've never tried before and create new mental pathways.
3. Reconnect socially
Social support is crucial for our physical and emotional health, and the past two years have been a long haul of increased isolation for many of us. Now is the time to nudge yourself to come out of your cocoon, if you feel up to it.
4. Consider growing a plant
5. Make a new creative goal
Growth shouldn't always be based on conquering something, and sometimes goal-setting for busy people starts to look too much like an achievement test. To decrease stress, improve your cognitive flexibility and increase your sense of well-being, sometimes a goal should not be at all about the end process but instead, the experience itself. If it's creative, all the better."
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Reflection;
What will you be doing to maintain your mental health this spring?
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@comfortableNight4463
this is a great article! I think I need to start learning how to do some of these tips. One way for me is focusing on balancing my alone time with my social time! I feel like if I spend too much time alone I'll lead to negative thoughts and if I spend too much time out my social battery will burn out.
