Five Ways To Wellbeing

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Connect

Connect with the people around you: with family, friends, colleagues and neighbours, at home, work, school or in your local community. Think of these as the cornerstones of your life and invest time in developing them. Building these connections will support and enrich you every day.

Be Active

Go for a walk or run, step outside, cycle, play a game, garden or dance – exercising makes you feel good. Most be active importantly; discover a physical activity you enjoy and that suits your level of mobility and fitness.

Take Notice

Be curious, catch sight of the beautiful, remark on the unusual, notice the changing seasons, savour the moment and be aware of the world around you and what you are feeling.

Keep Learning

Try something new, rediscover an old interest, sign up for that course, take on a different responsibility at work, set learning a challenge you enjoy achieving – Learning new things will make you more confident as well as being fun.

Give

Do something nice for a friend or a stranger, thank someone, smile, volunteer your time, join a community group – Seeing yourself and your happiness, as linked to the wider community can be incredibly rewarding and creates connections with the people around you.

You don’t have to do all 5 actions everyday straight away but trying to try to do one or two can be a good place to start.

 

Grounding and Centering

Go somewhere outside for this and find a place that feels good to you – a park if you live in town, a field, a woodland – somewhere you like the view or by a tree that you like. Take some time to feel the air, hear the sounds, and become quiet in yourself. Then focus on Grounding and Centering yourself

  1. Centre the weight of your body through the middle of your feet into the earth.
  2. Bend your knees just a little
  3. Drop your hips as if about to sit
  4. Feel your feet on the ground
  5. Rest into this position
  6. Let your spine lift you upwards through your head into the sky
  7. Lifting your arms above your head, take a full breath to the bottom and tops of your lungs
  8. As you let your breath out bring your arms down and repeat twice more.
  9. Now spend a minute with your arms up to the heavens
  10. Then a minute with them horizontal
  11. Then a minute where they hang naturally towards the earth.
  12. Have a sense of balance with nature and withion yourself

You should feel grounded and centered and refreshed.

Be like a Goldfinch

I was watching the birds on my bird feeder today.  The birds dash and grab what they need, they squabble, they are distracted.  Not the Goldfinches, they choose where they want to eat then they settle and are still.  Read more