5 A Day Mind Nourishment Q and A
Q: What is the 5 A Day Mind Nourishment?
A: It is a structure to help you look after your mind regularly and constantly.
Having a programme to help you look after your mind regularly and without failing is very important.
So a programme similar to the 5 A Day fruit and vegetables, that we all know, is a very strong structure because we have been doing it for many years and it is very easy for everyone to understand and to do.
Why a 5 A Day Mind Nourishment Campaign?
The first aim of the 5 A Day Mind Nourishment Campaign is to help everyone take good care of their mind and their mental health. When a mental health crisis strikes, it is no longer possible to look after yourself and your mind correctly. Sometimes, you have to leave it to the care of others or if you are able to do it yourself, you may be able to do only very little, because the condition will prevent you from being fully in charge of your own mental health.
The 5 A Day Mind Nourishment helps you set a daily and continuous routine of looking after your mind, starting from when you are well and making it possible to continue when the crisis starts.
Q: How do I choose my 5 A Day Mind Nourishment?
A: Your 5 A Day are short and easy activities that you do and that make you feel happy and relaxed. For example, reading a good book or magazine, listening to your favourite piece of relaxing, feeling good music or listening to the birds singing in your garden or in a park, having a lovely warm or refreshing drink, having a 20-30 minute walk, giving a hug to someone or holding a baby and enjoying the delicious smell of your drink or other smells such as in a garden, in a bath/bathroom, near a water feature, in a park, as for example.
Each of these activities are related to the senses. In neuroscience, evidence has been given that many people who experience mental health problems have some sensory issues. At the same time, we all know that it is our senses that help us discover the world around us. Remember how people missed using the sense of touch during the pandemic, hugging loved ones. Therefore, there is no need to say how important it is to keep our senses well stimulated and functioning to their full potential, even though we also know that the lack of one sense can be compensated by another one.
Q: How do I take my 5 A Day Mind Nourishment?
It is very important to take the 5 A Day Mind Nourishment with a good portion of enjoyment. This is what will make the difference. It will train your mind to always experience joy or good feelings, routinely, at least 5 times a day and it will become a habit. This means that, when sad or traumatic life experiences will occur, your mind will have been used to keeping itself whole and healthy, and this will help to some degree, when you need to process the difficult situations of life.