Stay active
Get up, get moving, enjoy a hobby – activity boosts mood.
Regular physical activity provides numerous physical and mental health benefits. It can improve sleep, help manage stress, and even reduce your risk of developing a range of long-term health conditions like cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
National guidance recommends that adults should aim to be active every day, accumulating 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity each week, with some muscle-strengthening activity on two days. But you don’t have to take part in large chunks of exercise to get the health benefits – every minute of activity counts.
Some is good, more is better – so start slowly and build up gradually.
Energise Me
Physical activity transforms lives!
Energise Me is helping people to reduce their risk of major illnesses and depression and create a happier, healthier, stronger future. Staff who live in Hampshire can access advice physically from Energise Me or visit their website for resources on how to stay active at home and at work
What is Move your Mind?
Join Dorset in GETTING ACTIVE everyday throughout January. It’s FREE to sign up, we’re asking for participants to donate or fundraise £31 – That’s just £1 a day!
This could pay for 2 x Active Monitoring sessions that provide early intervention support to prevent development of worsening mental health conditions or mental health crisis.
Everyone can take part in Move your Mind, no matter your fitness level. Whether you take part on your own, with friends, family, peers or colleagues you’ll be sure to find an activity to suit you.
Taking part in Move your Mind should push you a little further than your usual activities. This may mean you get extra steps in each day by walking instead of driving or jumping on public transport. You could try something new, meet new people or increase your active minutes by doing more of what you love.
We’ll also have a program of events taking place throughout January for you to join.
More Information and Resources are available on Mind's webpage here
