Mental Wellbeing

Healthy Mind for a Healthy Life

Helpful Tips to Achieve Mental Well-being

Now that you have learnt how the positive mental health practices can help you cultivate a healthy state of mind, try these tips!

Build Resilience

Resilience is reflected from the way you behave, think and act. A resilient person views changes as opportunities for personal growth and development.

Being resilient does not mean that you should isolate yourself from others. Instead, you should:

- Have close relationships with your family and friends.
- Know where to seek help.
- Discovering your purpose in life and reinforcing the good values that you believe in can help motivate you when you face challenges.

Be Happy

Choose to take pleasure in life. You can:

- Use humour to deal with stressful situations. You can turn the tables around and even get a good laugh from them.
- Surround yourself with cheerful people.
- Watch comedies.
- Read books and articles that inspire you to be happy.

Be Active

Participate in a physical activity you like for 30 minutes a day, 5 times a week for a more active you!

You can spread it over three 10-min sessions in a day with intervals in between.

Physical activities not only include sports (e.g. swimming, playing badminton etc). Daily activities such as the ones below are counted too:

- Climbing the stairs.
- Taking brisk walks.
- Doing household chores like sweeping the floor.

Remember to get advice from your doctor on the types of physical activities that are suitable for you.

Make Friends

Do activities together to strengthen the bonds with your friends.

Attend classes in groups (e.g., cooking classes)

Organise sharing sessions where you can exchange recipes, discuss interesting encounters etc.

Volunteer to help out at charity events

Love Yourself

Learn to love and value yourself so that you can exhibit self-confidence and move on in life.

Groom yourself by having:

- Good personal hygiene habits (e.g. trimming the nails and hair often and keeping them clean).
- Dressing up to feel good and confident.
- Pin up helpful and inspiring quotations by other people to encourage yourself.

Just Relax

Learning how to relax is very important to help you feel refreshed.

Take a short 10-minute refresher. This may even help you work more efficiently.

Listen to soothing sounds of nature (e.g. birds chirping) or soft music for calming effects.

Make time for your hobbies and interests.


Lastly, Share these tips with your family and friends and work together towards achieving good mental well-being!




*Extracted from Health Promotion Board Website*



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