Useful habits to beat depression and anxiety

 

Useful habits that will help you to beat depression and anxiety, there are some question always raised that,

What helped you overcome your depression?

 What helped you overcome your anxiety?

  There were a lot of factors but looking back the one thing that really did help me, was the useful habits that I started introducing, when I hit that period of depression that really decrease my struggling point, experience forever feeling fatigue, see in no real future. I didn't have any other daily habits to rely on, the only habits that I had were self-destructing habits that would get me deeper and deeper into that depression as soon as I started integrating good habits into my daily routine, I started to find myself feeling better, I started to find myself coming out of that depression and most important with these daily habits as well as they're actually going to help you manage your depression.

Different ways to boost your mood, so if you're feeling low, if you're feeling depressed then these different tips are going to help massively, now we have to talk about the pressure more because one in four people will suffer with depression and it's important to note that depression is something that you can handle. You know there's so many people that suffer with depression in the past and overcame it as myself also included. So it's important to notice that how you're feeling right now, can be changed and these tips are hopefully going to help you.

1.           Mindfulness ( meditation), to deal with depression:

 Mindfulness is a great way to stay calm, to deal with daily stresses, to not get angry and also to be able to deal with that anxiety and depression. Mindfulness could just be you sitting down quietly for a few minutes focusing in on your breath, a simple technique is to breathe in for four seconds and then double with that breath on the way out so you can breathe out. If you can't achieve that breathe out for six or breathe out for five but you want to make that out-breath longer than the in-breath, it's a very good way of just relaxing focusing in on your breath. When you're going to find that's going to help with mindfulness, you can take a deeper, you can do guided meditations, and you can do visualization.

2.           Beating depression and anxiety is focused aim.

There’s times where I feel very low and I feel that depression coming back, but I can then relate back to these daily habits use some of them again to make me feel good that make me not fall deeper into that hole. The first daily habit that's going to help you is Beat depression and anxiety is focusing.

3.        Self-awareness.

Some people said that coffee causes their anxiety, they can now see through self-awareness that the caffeine that they're taken in, is actually causing their anxiety so it's all about being self-aware knowing what foods make you feel depressed knowing what foods make you feel anxious and trying to cut them out.

4.        Exercise help in the excretion of endorphins: feel-good hormone.

Now you probably know the benefits of exercise and you don't need me to tell you the benefits of exercise, but you know I'm not going to scientific on you but exercise reliefs is chemicals called endorphins and endorphins are simply what you call the feel-good hormone. When you do a bit of exercise, it's going to release endorphins and to make you feel better. So what you can do is when you're feeling low when you're feeling depressed just do a little bit of exercise. so think back to the last time you exercise try and think back to that feeling that you had once you completed the session, you felt good right well. that's what you really want to tap into the problem is getting to exercise, so don't think you have to commit to an hour to half an hour even if you just did five minutes of jogging on the spot ten minutes of jogging on the spot y, that's going to start to release those endorphins that start to make you feel better about yourself. So the next time when you feel quite low and quite depressed, try and do some exercise that help you massively.

5.        Build your support network.

we find ourselves feeling very isolated we don't have that community we don't have that support and when we feel isolated we feel very depressed and community is all about getting out there and speaking to as many people as you possibly can now. just having that community around you where people knowing that you exist is really a great feeling when you actually are feeling depressed building your support network around you meeting up with friends meeting up with people that you haven't met for a while family members, your community, your support network is going to get you through these tough times don't feel isolated, there really is no excuse remember that we are all humans we're all the same species we all struggle with mental health one in four people will struggle with depression if not more so everyone is going through the same.

6.        Satisfy your inner child.

you were you know a child from inside, you always got given something if you did something well you always want being rewarded and then you typically rewarded yourself as well so you're on a child is screaming for some kind of reward if you do something well reward yourself.

7.        The power pose (celebrate your wins more often).

so if you do something good you know enjoy and celebrate it you know it could be as simple as changing your body language if you look into research about the power pose you know people would naturally do that if they win a race the arms go up and that's what's called the power pose and just that body language change makes you feel a lot better about yourself so you need to start celebrating your wins more often and when you celebrate more it's going to boost your self-esteem and it's going to boost your mood.

8.        Laugh more than before for a better mindset.

Watch comedy, just go out with friends laugh more again. Laughing scientifically will put you in a better mood so it will put you in a better mood, it'll put you in a better mindset to start to laugh a little bit more. Although do take life seriously but also enjoy it also. Tap into your inner child things used to do as a child that you loved you know go and do that now. So have fun, laugh more and you're going to feel a lot better as well.

9.        Journaling is a great tool to use.

you're going to be able to get through those worries those stresses and anxiety by writing them down onto a piece of paper, you can start to rationalize with them when they're here they become heightened they become very difficult to deal with but when they're in front of you on a piece paper they're almost like they're not your problems there's someone else's problems and you can start to rationalize with them. So grab a plain notepad, a pen and just write down whatever comes up in your mind, don't structure it, just write down. then by doing that I can then look at the paper look at what I'm journaling and I can start to rationalize those thoughts and I can also start to come up with solutions they then become more easier to deal with so journaling is a great tool to use.

10.      Daily affirmations repeat over and over again.

you will repeat over and over again you have to think of your mind as your thoughts as a computer all it is a computer system, it's going to boot up the same way, it's going to open the same programs, it's just going to behave the same way, every single day unless you reprogram that and one of the ways that you can do, is through daily affirmations. if you don't feel good about yourself you have to train your mind and tell yourself that you are good, if you lack confidence you have to tell yourself and remind yourself that you are confident, if you don't feel happy you have to tell yourself and remind yourself that you are happy being accepting of everything, that you already have there's plenty of affirmations out there, that you can find that are related to any issue that you have you can also make up your own affirmations, but I highly recommend that when you do have an affirmation you say it over and over again, you say it loud and you truly mean it and within time and within consistency your mind is going to start believing that sentence. so try affirmations.

11.      To seek silence.

You know we're so busy all the time but always try to relieve stress and clear your mind. it could be as simple as sitting at home in silence just try and do that more often because you'll start to self-reflect and you start to realize things about you and where you actually want to be going so seek silence.

12.      To give to others.

just do a small good deed for someone, every single day ,when you're focusing only in on yourself, when you feel like a victim, when you're focusing in on your own insecurities, your own depression ,your own worries, your own stresses everything that's going wrong for you. you lack perspective that there are people in the world in a much worse off situation than you and when you do something good for someone else it's going to of course make you feel better it's just a natural human trait when you do something good for someone else you're going to feel good so why do we lack it. However smaller is to try and do something good for someone else every day.

  

13.      Fuel the body with the right stuff.

on what you need now this is an obvious one and you'll probably thinking I know this already but honestly what you're putting into your body is going to have a huge impact on how you feel one of the reasons why I was so depressed and one of the reasons why I struggled to overcome. It was because I was just eating junk, I was just not fueling my body with the right stuff. Your God in fact has a huge link to your depression to your mental health and if you're not feeding your body the right stuff, if you're not fueling it correctly, it's going to have an on your mental health.

 Gradually eating food like carrots and broccoli and healthy stuff with consistency, you're going to find that you're actually going to start to feel a lot better. it's all about understanding what works for you as well what works for me is fasting so I like to fast for sixteen to twenty hours a day that sounds like a long time but I sleep for about eight of those hours and I've spoken about intermittent fasting before but this works very well for me because I have a lot more mental clarity when I'm actually fasting.

when I start eating I cannot stop eating, I feel very fatigued so this is what works for me so you have to figure out what works for you understand what you're putting into your body is causing an impact on your mental health on your depression and on your anxiety.

14.      To cut back the beard.

cut back the alcohol guys like there's nothing wrong with having a good beer having a good you know drink up at the weekend but if you're drinking every day you need to understand that alcohol is a depressant so if you're feeling depressed and you're drinking you're literally just feeding yourself a depressant so if you cut back the alcohol you might start to find that your mood and your depressive state starts to change as well.

 15.     More water intake.

Gradually water intake and drink more water is going to make you have a more mental clarity it's going to make you feel better

 16.        Take a cold shower.

now the second way, I recommend is to take your shower as you normally to put maybe some shampoo on, and then change to cold, and then simply use the cold water to rinse off the shampoo. Now it's going to be a real shock, as people have said that cold water shower helps boost testosterone and it has so many benefits. So really stick active, that's going to change your state and that's going to dramatically make you feel better as well so you can take a cold shower and that's also going to boost your mood.