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Activities of daily living and exercising during lockdown

The last year has been an overwhelming experience for most of us, making us change how we do almost everything. When the gyms shut, local classes stopped we then had to get used to exercise at home, looking at an instructor on a screen on our phone or computer. How do you keep up exercising during lockdown? What do we need to exercise at home? What are activities of daily living people keep talking about? Let’s explore what we can now do if we don’t have access to a handy gym, how you can set things up at home and what you can do to keep yourself physically and mentally fit and healthy.

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Mental health awareness qualification

Why is it important?

Why is the Mental Health Awareness Qualification important indeed? Well, it is important to keep an eye on all mental health and make sure people are well cared for is the first answer. As people say mental health is just as important as physical health. It is also good to get people qualified under this qualification so they can spot someone with poor mental health, and more importantly, being better equipped to help someone in a crisis.

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Social media and mental health

This is a topic that has been doing the rounds for a while now but 2 Spuds in a Pod has not covered it to date. That is about to change.
Social media has exploded in the last few years, how we interact with all this technology has certainly changed, even to simple things such as how we communicate with people around us. It has made for smoother interactions online, you can buy anything from anywhere and everything is only a touch of a button’s distance away. However, is it all good? What about all the time you spend scrolling through your feeds for hours on end? What does it do to your mental health?

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How to make the workplace more fun!

We spend a lot of time at our workplace, whether that is an actual workplace or our desk at home. We can spend up to eight hours a day there on a good day, and double that on a bad day. It is easy to forget how important the environment is for our happiness and productivity. Continue reading for tips and ideas how to make the workplace more fun.

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Talk to a employer about your wellbeing

It is something that we tend to forget about at 5 o’clock on Friday evening when you manager has just popped a tonne of work on your desk and says “I need this by Monday”. You see your weekend plans disappear as your desk is your new best friend, along with a whirlwind of thoughts of what you need to say no to over the weekend, including plans made with friends and family. But what if instead we said “No!” This blog explores the importance of this topic.

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Quieten your mind through meditation

We hear it all the time that mediation is the key to slowing down our brain. It is the key to getting our brains to take in what is around us. We could even go as far as saying that it is the key to a long and healthy life. But what is this mediation all about? Why should we meditate? Hopefully by the end of this blog I can shed some light on how to meditate.

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