Five things a day to promote mental health
1, contact others. Developing good relationships with family, friends, colleagues and neighbors can enrich your life and bring you help.
2. Stay active. Doing sports, developing hobbies, such as dancing and gardening, or just forming the habit of walking every day can also make you feel happy and promote physical flexibility and physical and mental health.
3. Curiosity. Paying attention to the beautiful and unusual things in daily life and learning to enjoy time and think will help you look at the world with appreciation.
4. study. Learn musical instruments or cooking. Challenges and a sense of accomplishment will bring fun and confidence.
5. dedication. Helping friends and strangers and connecting your happiness with the wider society will benefit you a lot.
Accumulate "spiritual capital"
John Beddington, the head of Outlook and Britain's chief scientific adviser, said that the original intention of drafting this report was to accumulate the country's "spiritual capital".
Beddington said that if people's overall mental state is regarded as a bank account, "we need to consider what kind of behavior can increase the value of the account and what kind of behavior will shrink it".
Felicity Huppert, a professor of psychology at Cambridge University, said: "The most critical issue of mental health is what an individual can do. We found five things that can explain the obvious changes in people's mental state. These categories are supported by evidence. "
Huppert said that these five things are very simple. Anyone who wants to do it can do it every day, just like eating five kinds of fruits and vegetables every day to promote health.