Hauora
Step up and take action.
Looking after your Hauora is preventative.
Take care. Step up and take action.
Look after yourself then you can look out for whanau and friends.
We need to take action to look after our Hauora. Those 'feel good chemicals' will be released and we will be more resilient and in a better place to cope with the tough stuff.
<< Wiremu McCarthy reminds us about what Hauora is and its importance in staying well .
He has a series of videos about looking after your Hauora.
- check it out ! check out all 8 episodes ! :)
The basics of looking after yourself.
If you do not do anything else to look after yourself, do sleep well, eat well, and exercise well.
Sleep well.
Eat well.
Exercise well
Planning to, and taking action, is super important right now!
So many things that we 'just did', like sport, being part of the school production, going to church or youth group, walking to school, hitting the mtb adventure park, hanging out at a mate's place, visiting whanau etc are things that we cannot do now. Many of the things that naturally contributed to our hauora are no longer options.
We need to take planned action to look after ourselves.
The Mental Health Foundation website has some great ideas for looking after our hauora / wellbeing during lock down.
It is easier / better to take action now and look after your Hauora while you are feeling good rather than wait until you crash.
The Mental Health Foundation promotes the following 5 Ways to Wellbeing / Hauora. You could plan to do something to tick off each of the 5 ways to wellbeing each day / week.
Look for each Way to wellbeing and click on read more for great ideas to help you take action to look after your wellbeing.
