Things to watch out for

Take care of your body: To have a healthy body, you should take care of your health. For this, eat healthy food and drink plenty of water. Apart from this, exercise and get complete sleep. Especially keep away from smoking.

Keep learning new things: To keep the mind healthy one should try to keep learning something new. Apart from this, take time for the work you like and do it. It will also give you fun and a chance to learn more.

Take time for hobby: However busy you are, but take time out for your hobby. By doing this you also feel mentally refreshed. There is a secretion of feel-good hormone in the brain which has a positive effect on your mental health.

 Keep stress away: In today’s time, there is tension in everyone’s life. Due to which we become physically and mentally ill. In such a situation, we should integrate exercise, play, and walk in our daily routine.

Set goals: Set goals for what you want to do in your life. For this, adopt a practical approach. By doing all this you will reach your goal easily. In such a situation, you will be mentally healthy.

Causes

• Heredity: Mental disease is more in people whose relatives have mental illness. Certain genetic factors can increase the risk of mental illness.
• Exposure to environmental causes before birth: Environmental stress in the womb, exacerbated conditions, exposure to alcohol or drugs can cause mental illness.
• Childhood trauma: When some negative incident occurs with children, such as death or exploitation in the family, this affects their mind and abnormality come in their behaviour in childhood.
• Parenting: The way parents raise their children also determines their development to a large extent. Many parents give their children too much freedom, many become very strict with children. According to psychologists, inadequate parenting occurs in many ways such as over protection, restriction, overpermisivness.

Sweat it out

Walk: Today, our biggest problem is stress, if you want to avoid it take a walk to boost mental health.

Yoga: It is the easiest and most effective way and there are many aasans and poses for mental health

• Bhramari keeps your mind calm. This can eliminate anger and anxiety from the brain.
• Paschimotsan gives mental relief. It relaxes the muscles and help to reduce stress.
• SetuBandhasana is also a better way to keep the mind fit.
• Sarvangasan leads for better circulation of blood to the brain, reducing stress and feeling relieved.

Swimming: Swimming can boost mental health and it is a great form of exercise. Swimming helps to reduce weight and promotes the growth of new brain cell which help to boost mental health.

Cycling: Cycling is also a great exercise for mental health. Cycling Reduces stress, reduce risk of depression, Helps you sleep better, Improves your memory, Improves creative thinking and helps you to feel good

Dance: Regularly dancing keeps a person physically and mentally healthy. There is protection against many diseases and solutions to existing diseases and physical problems. Dance can increase your memory.

Because of this, your chances of developing dementia (dementia, dementia) are also significantly reduced as you get older. Science suggests that aerobic exercise prevents damage to the part of the brain that controls memory. Also, Dance can help you to release stress.

The writer is Consultant, Psychiatry Department, BLK Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi