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MANAGING ANXIETY in the Covid-19 landscape | Tip No. 5 Do something that makes you laugh or smile every day. Watch funny YouTube clips – in fact start circulating them to friends and family. When they receive or see something funny they’ll more than likely think of you and send you funnies back. Watch cute animal videos, watch comedy shows, it doesn’t matter what it is but dedicate yourself ‘smile & laugh time’ each day. Make it a reward in the evening after exercise and just before bed. It leaves your mental and emotional state in a positive place at the end of every day.
MANAGING ANXIETY in the Covid-19 landscape | Tip No. 4 Exercise! Even in lock down (and even if you don’t like it!). Exercise keeps your mind focused and channels any anxiety you’re feeling into a physical form that can them be temporarily depleted. It also creates endorphins and helps you to sleep better. If you’re not generally an exercise person, make it as enjoyable as you can. We’re all under stress so there’s no need to torture yourself. Listen to happy music while you do it, watch movies you love while you do it – but do it! It’s beneficial for your physical and mental wellbeing and it also adds to part of your daily routine to keep you feeling mentally secure and focused.
MANAGING ANXIETY in the Covid-19 landscape | Tip No. 3 Limit your news time and be stringent with your sources. Stop watching commercial broadcast news channels and clicking on clickbait news articles. We all need to keep up with what’s happening, but limit your fact checking to reputable government websites and/or the world health organisation website and limit it to once per day and for no more than 30min in total. There’s a difference between being informed and being engrossed. Being informed means learning and accepting the facts, but being engrossed means you’re obsessed and channelling too much of your mental and emotional energy into this in a potentially unhealthy way. Yes, what’s going on in the world right now is important and to an extent it is impacting your daily life, so keeping informed and understanding how it’s going to impact you so you can take steps to mitigate the negative aspects are important… but so is living your life! More than that -living it in a meaningful, positive and healthy way. If you’re prone to stress, depression and anxiety you know that news and social media can be a sinkhole of negativity and despair – so take from it only the bare essentials of what you need to stay adequately informed and disregard the rest. Media like this is specifically designed to draw you in and keep you. Media companies don’t sell physical newspapers anymore - your attention is how they make their money now and your focus needs to be on positive things right now.
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