How to make every day a. Mental health includes emotional, psychological and social well-being. It's more than the absence of mental illness, it's essential to your overall health and quality of life. Self-care can help maintain your mental health and help support your treatment and recovery if you have a mental illness. Exercise improves mental health by reducing anxiety, stress, depression, and negative mood, and by improving cognitive function.
Muscle-strengthening activities should be included in an exercise routine, twice a week. This includes yoga, strength training with free weights, resistance band exercises, and bodyweight exercises, such as push-ups, lunges and squats. Aerobic exercise, such as walking, gardening, swimming, running and cycling, has been shown to reduce anxiety and depression. One to two hours of exercise per week has been shown to reduce the risk of depression.
