Mental Health Mission: Week 2
This week, we're inviting you to reconnect with the things you ENJOY.
Week 2: It’s time to ENJOY
Think about the things that spark moments of joy in your day - big or small. Bring some purposeful enjoyment into your week by making time for an old hobby you love. Or try a new one!
This is a great way to bring some playfulness back into your life, which helps to reduce stress, as well as symptoms of anxiety and depression.
You can choose one of two practices below!
Mission: Create
Whether you get together with friends or family, or approach the activity solo, carve out some time in your day to create. Here are some of our favourite ideas:
- Host a craft-ernoon with friends and make some friendship bracelets or a scrapbook of your favourite memories!
- Attend a community wood shed and get creating!
- Use photos or old magazines, or a combination of both, and let your creativity run wild to make a collage or a vision board
- Get crafty with some wool and try your hand at knitting or crocheting
Mission: Movement
Music and dance are great ways to explore your creativity. They both have the potential to evoke powerful emotions and memories, and motivate us to move.
You can approach this practice in a few ways:
- Make a playlist based on your current mood and dance! Doesn't matter if you're any good or not – dancing is great for stress relief, enhancing mood and emotional expression.
- Curate a playlist based on an activity. For example, a 'getting ready' playlist that gets you feeling hyped up and excited.
- Create a playlist for a friend going through a tough time. This could be filled with their favourite songs, genres and artists, or a list of new songs you think they'd love.
Spotify playlist curated by Beyond Blue
Dr. Luke Martin, Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Spokesperson, Beyond Blue
Share this Mental Health Mission with others
Completing the Mental Health Mission with someone else can be motivating. It can be more fun. It can help keep you accountable.
You can also use the Mental Health Mission or our Wellbeing Action Tool template to help guide conversations with people close to you about what works for your wellbeing.
