Mindfulness is a technique that’s used to help with stress and self-awareness. Mindfulness can help you feel more aware of what’s happening in the present moment, and it can help you to feel calmer. It also aims to help you to become more self-aware, to feel more able to choose how you respond to your thoughts and feelings, to cope with difficult or unhelpful thoughts, to be kinder to yourself and to manage day-to-day stress. Mindfulness is a skill that you have to practise, but if you work on it regularly, it can be a useful tool.

Mental wellbeing is important both for yourself and for others. The best ways to improve mental wellbeing are by:

• connecting with people
• being physically active
• learning new skills
• being kind to others
• practising mindfulness