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Cycle your way through Covid-19

Lynne Troughton Trainee Counsellor and Personal Trainer. Cycle your way through Covid 19 help peddle the stress away

I personally enjoy exercise, cycling being one way to help with my mental wellbeing. Exercise isn’t only good for your physical health but it is also good for your mental health.

Health Benefits

Relieves stress
Reduces depression and anxiety
Boost self esteem
Boost energy
Promotes better sleep
Improves mood
Mindfulness
Increases stamina, strength and aerobic fitness
increased cardiovascular fitness
Improves joint mobility
Increased muscle strength and flexibility
Improves posture
Decreases body fat levels
Fun and a low-impact form of exercise for all ages.

Self Care – Mindfulness Tool:

I use this grounding technique with clients to help focus on the here and now. You can use this grounding technique to help create space from distressing negative thinking and feelings. Felling overwhelmed with our emotions and thoughts can happen to all of us. Especially during this difficult time of COVID-19.

The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique

5 things you see
4 things you can feel
3 things you can hear
2 things you can smell
1 thing you can taste

Take a deep breath at the end repeat again if you feel you need to.

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Promote gang add a little colour to our lives amid Covid-19 crisis

AMH Promote – Action Mental Health’s service for adults with learning – is joining the global effort to brighten up our lives during the coronavirus pandemic.

The clients at the Bangor based service will be creating colourful rainbows to display in their windows, as over 100,000 budding young artists of all abilities across the world put their own artistic touches to the welcome colourful arcs in the sky.

The trend, thought to have originated in Italy, among one of the worst hit countries by Covid-19, has now reached the Promote gang in Bangor. It gathered momentum in the UK and Ireland following the recent closure of schools, following the example of rainbow makers around the world who are uniting on a Facebook page Believe In Rainbows, People are using the social media platform to share their versions of the symbol in a bid to spread a bit of joy amid the pandemic.

Paintings and coloured pictures of rainbows produced so far carry messages of hope and some even reflect the Government’s message on the spread of coronavirus: “Catch it, bin it, kill it”. Other messages have been found encouraging others to “Be kind,” “Stay Safe” and “Be positive”.

AMH Promote – Action Mental Health’s service for adults with learning – is joining the global effort to brighten up our lives during the coronavirus pandemic.

The clients at the Bangor based service will be creating colourful rainbows to display in their windows, as countless numbers of budding young artists of all abilities are painting and drawing across the world.

The trend, thought to have originated in Italy, which is among the first country to suffer the crippling effects of Covid-19, has now reached the Promote gang in Bangor. It gathered momentum in the UK and Ireland following the recent closure of schools.

Paintings and coloured pictures of rainbows carry messages like reflecting the Government’s message on the spread of coronavirus: “Catch it, bin it, kill it” as well as other messages urging people to “Be kind,” “Stay Safe” and “Be positive”.

Rainbow makers around the world are uniting on a Facebook page Believe In Rainbows, sharing their versions of the symbol in a bid to spread a bit of joy amid the pandemic.