Minding your Mind

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Minding your Mind
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Building your bWell Psychoeducational skills

• Sleep Well
• Eat well
• Stay away from mind altering substances
• Talk with your family
• Connect with your friends
• Exercise
• Learn how to be optimistic
• Stop self-analysing
• Change negative thoughts
• Learn what makes you happy and do it

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Sleep Well

• Turn off your mobile phones
• No facebook, computer, Wii, 1 hr before bed
• Tune out - relax down before bed

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Eat Well

• Eat 3 meals 3 snacks per day

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Mind your Mental health

• Mind altering substances have a major negative
  and sometimes irreversible impact on the teenage
  brain

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Family

• Talk with your family
• They are there to help and support you
• Share your worries concerns

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Connect with your Friends
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Go outside Breathe!
Cardio Get your heart pumping 3 times a week A
20 minute daily walk will change your state
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Cultivate optimism in your life
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Stop self-analysing
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Be aware of how you think

• It is your mind, look after yourself
• Practice mindfulness, being aware in the present
  moment
• Change negative thoughts, state how you want to
  feel in the positive
• Be responsible for your feelings
• Recognize what you can change
• Use your strengths every day
• To find out your VIA Signature strengths
• http//www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/questi
  onnaires.aspx

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