A Spring Reset For Mental Health With Simple Daily Habits

Your mental health does not always need a dramatic breakthrough. Sometimes it needs a small reset you can repeat, especially when the world feels intense and your mind will not stop replaying everything at once.

We start by grounding ourselves in May’s seasonal energy, whether you’re moving through spring brightness or an autumn shift toward letting go. From there, we share five practical mental health tips that are simple and realistic.

The episode closes with a spring-inspired guided meditation and visualisation. If you’ve been craving direction, calm, and a doable next step, this practice can help you find it. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs a reset, and leave a review with your one thing for the month.

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Welcome And May’s Energy

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Hello, dear listener, and welcome to the first episode of May. Yes, we are in the rich and vibrant season of May. Northern Hemisphere, which is where I'm at, beautiful flowers as I look out of the window, and there's more light. So that is supporting the growth of nature here. And in the southern hemisphere, I know you're coming into late autumn or fall, and you it's a completely different energy where you where it's getting a bit cooler, and it's a more inward energy. If it's an outward energy or inward energy, there is gifts for both times of the year depending on what hemisphere you're in. May I always feel like it is like a da-da month where we kind of learn to reset our being, but it's it's where you're starting to see the fruits of your action, you're starting to believe in yourself a bit more, and this coincides with mental health month, and I wanted to just share with you my top five tips that I use to help navigate when life feels a bit difficult, or even just to help me get through the small things because sometimes those small things it doesn't have to be drastic things, but they can feel like so much and so overwhelming. So my top tip is to get out into nature. So if you're in an area that's warm, it's very warm here at the moment, then you've got a lot of light to get out in and enjoy the nature. Just to warn you that there are some there might be a little bit, slight bit of background noise because there's some very loud DIY that's going on down the road. But anyway, getting back to my point. So this vibrancy, this life, this beauty, we can really tap into that spring energy, and if it's if if it's um autumnal energy where you are, there's that beauty of like that letting go. So there is beauty wherever you're at, because nature is beautiful, no matter what time of year, and I'm so passionate about this. So, my top tip is to get out in nature. If ever there was a tool that is generally free, right? Most people can access nature, even if you live in live in a city that are like parks or places generally that you can get in nature. If you live in the countryside, then you've got a lot of choice in the nature. But there's some beautiful parks and some beautiful cities and places, so nature is free, and I would be I feel quite passionately that it's so good for our mental health. Why is it good for our mental health? Well, it brings us out of this excessive thinking, and I feel like looking at people over the years, looking at life over the years, with so many more extra kinds of ex distractions, it's so much harder in many ways for us to find those moments of peace. But nature just is there to love and support us and wants to offer us these moments of peace. So getting outside, of course, if you're somewhere cooler, wrapping up warm, um, if you're somewhere warm, wearing your sunscreen, getting outside, feeling nice and vibrant and alive in this beautiful reset month of May, and it's so glorious. Taking in the sense, and so this is what I do, right? I walk outside, and you know, the other day I went for a walk, and for the first five minutes, my mind was just thinking stuff over. We all do it. I was just thinking about this, that, the other things that might never happen, things that have happened, things that I'd like to happen, blah blah blah. And then I just thought I've walked for five minutes and haven't taken in anything that I've seen. I was just like, oh my gosh. So I really made a conscious effort to smell the flowers, to see the flowers, to hear the nature, to feel the texture underneath my feet, and you know, the thoughts still try to entice me. And I thought, fine, you can be there, but I'm gonna look at this little lovely little robin that's sitting on this country fence. I'm gonna take in the smell of this field. I'm gonna look at these beautiful buttercups, and then the hedge grow, the hedge row, was full of all those beautiful tall flowers that it gets at this time of year, and there's just so much vibrancy in life. The little birds look all exhausted as they're kind of making their nests now and looking after their families, and then even like the scent of the air, and you know what, I do get hay fever, and sometimes the trees can make me cough a bit when I walk underneath them. But this, you know, I won't give up my nature, but that's just me. I like to be out in nature no matter what, but for you, just find a place that's good for you to walk and you feel at peace walking there, and just try and connect in it, and it's the microhabits that really build up and make a change now. And you know what? We are on the fifth month as I record this, it might not be as you're listening to it, but what you want is cement for the rest of the year, and instead of being thinking, oh, overwhelmed too much, use the vibrancy in the spring, just put it this way, right? Like an acorn doesn't rush to be an oak tree, right? Obviously, they live a lot longer, so they they can take a lot longer. But what I'm meaning is if you've got an idea of something that you want to do, water it, nurture it, but don't try and force it to grow, allow it to grow, knowing that you put the hard work in, but then surrender, and this is what the nature can offer you. So that is one of my top tips for mental health. My second top tip for mental health is to make sure that you're eating and drinking in a way that is right for your body. Of course, a professional nutritionist will be able to advise you, nutritionist, etc., will be able to advise you on that. For me, it's plenty of water. When I don't drink enough water, I never feel thirsty, so I have to really have a conscious effort to drink water, but I forget to drink water and I realize what a difference it makes to my well-being. So, water, good green, springing with life, spring food, which is rich and vibrant, lots of good nutrition. Just think a bit lighter than the winter months, or winter months, of course, you might want to be more stews, but here you want to be eating more lighter, brighter, kind of vibrant stuff that's going to support your well-being. And then, of course, there's things like cutting down on stuff that we know that's bad for us. So, for me, my mental health has affected if I've been eating stuff that's not so good for me, and if I have sugary things before I go to bed, forget it, like it's just not the best thing. So then my I'll get anxious because I haven't slept enough. So I generally sleep really well, but if I eat badly, I find it affects how I sleep. Joy like spiritual work can be so serious sometimes. Can you find the joy? I'm looking at this like over spilling in a beautiful way pot which is full of pansies and all these beautiful, like amber colours and whites and beautiful yellows and things, and that gives me joy because I just think that is like nature's kiss to the world, just saying, Look, I am here, I'm beautiful, and doing things that gives me joy really helps with my mental health, but doing things that are holistic that gives me joy, so like when I remember when I when I journal, when I meditate, when I spend time with loved ones, when I just dance spontaneously around the house, I'll put a piece of music on and then make my own like kind of semi-ballet thing, which which is an insult to ballerinas because it's I'm not a I'm not a ballerina, but I make up my own kind of ballet dances and that gives me joy, you know. Like, you know, that there's a lot to be said about singing in the shower, you know. If you can sing, which I can't, but even if you can't sing, sing in the shower, that really that's you know, just find these micro moments where you can bring joy into your life because life is tough, life is hard, there's awful things going on all over the world, stuff we hear about, stuff we don't hear so much about, and there's all this stuff that's out of our hands. So the thing that you can change, dear listener, for your own mental health is yourself, and I would strongly suggest not watching the news just before you go to bed or just before you get up. By all means, keep in touch with what's going on in the world if that's works for you. But you know, the second you get up and looking at your phone is not so good, and looking at your phone before you go to bed with all that blue light is not going to be so good for you. Next thing with this spring thing is to just observe your life for the rest of the month, right? And see things that nourish you and what depletes you, and can you bring more things that nourish you into your life? Maybe there's someone in your life that you have to see regularly, but they deplete you. Can you see them in a different setting, like maybe outside of nature, so then you don't feel so drained? That's just an example. What makes you feel nourish and rich? Maybe it's to go doing something like going for coffee with your favorite friends, or or finding time to curl up with that book, or it'll be different for everyone, but things that feel like they nourish your soul, and I feel the more you can do things that nourish your soul, they will counteract the thing, all the bad things that are going on in the world. Another thing that I do for my mental health is I learn to say no. If I'm feeling overtired, if I've been doing too much, and I was in right somewhere the other day, and I really wanted to go, but I was so exhausted, but exhausted, and also it was an it I was going on a course, so I just said no, even though I knew I would love doing that. Of course, don't go the other way where you say no to everything and you don't do you don't try things, it's learning to kind of see where your energy levels are at and working with them, and that's when I respect my levels of tiredness. I feel that helps my mental health too. So, number four, try and not take life so seriously. When was the last time you just had a good laugh about something? Not at someone's expense where it's cruel or anything like that, but just like a good laugh, even laughing at yourself. You know, sometimes I've done that, then I've just kind of had a bit of a laugh, thinking, Oh, actually, do you know what? I'm taking things far too seriously. Can I find a bit of fun in this? So maybe there's a task like you don't really want to do the dishes. Can you find a fun way to do it? So the fun, the sense of humour, a good sense of humour in life is gonna help you. That's not to say to bury things or to forget things, and if please reach out to some professionals if there's someone that you need to talk to, never feel like you're alone ever. When I'm saying having a sense of humour is like knowing that life does kind of um bring us curveballs, so having a sense of humour about it, seeing life as this magical thing that unfolds, but with all but no matter what, kind of helps me a lot. Another thing that can help me when I'm feeling like a bit stuck is if I get my journal out and I just write like maybe five or six lines about whatever's in my mind, but I write it for myself so no one's going to read it, just what I feel like I need to release, what's bothering me, and it feels like I've shared it with someone then because I've got pen and paper on pen and paper that makes help makes sense. And finally, my other top tip for mental health week and for helping you, dear listener, is meditation, and I end every single meditation, every single show with a meditation, and I find that just a few minutes when I feel overwhelmed helps. I always start my yoga classes with some meditation where I get my lovely students to sit and breathe and just listen to the breath. So that's something that you can do. So let's do a spring-inspired meditation together. Top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross-legged on the floor with a nice straight back, always nice to sit on a block or a cushion, or that's not available for you. You sit in a chair with the back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching. And if you're doing something that requires little concentration, all you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you. If you're doing the meditation, let's begin. Closing your eyes, in and out through the nostrils, you imagine that you are in a spring-filled meadow, such beautiful and rich vibrant colours, like you're in a field of flowers, so beautiful and so alive. And this field represents the endless possibilities of yourself, the joy and the beauty that you can bring to this world if only you would allow yourself to be. Yet to take on all these flowers at once would just be too much for you right now. So, in your imagination, you are walking through this field of flowers, which has lots of little paths that you can get through and around and by. And in this beautiful field of flowers, you take in the scent, you take in the place, and you just allow yourself to simply be. The flowers they sway in the wind, and you walk, and then you spot the largest flower that you've ever seen. It may be red or whatever colour feels good for you. And as you observe this flower, you get the sense just to sit on the ground near it in your imagination, and you take some slow, calming, deep breaths with the intuition to do this for the next minute. For this flower does open, and in it is a tiny envelope addressed to you. Gingerly you pick the envelope from the inside of the flower and you open it up in your hand. And inside that is the single thing illicitly that you should work on this month. So in your imagination, just allow that word to become apparent. Whatever is personal for you. And you say thank you to the flower, thank you to the nature, as you slowly come back into the moment, come back into the room, knowing that you are spring itself. So thank you for listening, dear listeners. If you work on your one thing this month, mine's gonna be drinking more water. I would love to hear how you got on with it. So do reach out to me by via my website when spiritual fuel stuck what to do next dot com. And next week we have an amazing female guest on the show. Can't wait to have her on the show. Thank you, dear listeners.