Move Your Mind

Book description

Learn how to create new daily habits that build happiness and reduce stress 

In Move Your Mind, acclaimed actor, entrepreneur, and mental health advocate Nick Bracks delivers the practical tools and lessons that will help you make small, but measurable, daily changes to foster positive, lasting improvements to your mental health. Told through the author’s own experiences with mental illness, this book offers a holistic approach to improving your mental health, and shows readers how to make positive lifestyle changes in areas like exercise, nutrition, sleep, mindfulness, and meditation. 
The book offers: 
  • Valuable and insightful case studies of real and well-known people who took control of and improved their mental wellbeing 
  • Key research findings from industry leaders in mindfulness, meditation, memory, mental health, psychology, and performance 
  • Guidance on how to take small, gradual steps that lead to big changes in your motivation and inspiration 
Perfect for anyone who has tried to take ownership of their own mental health but lacked the time, motivation, or information to effectively make a change, Move Your Mind is an indispensable guide to creating long-term behavior changes that promote increased happiness, decreased anxiety and stress, and better relationships.  

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. PREFACE
  5. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. PART I: MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING
    1. CHAPTER 1: MY STORY
      1. Realising I had a problem
      2. Getting help
      3. Beginning to heal
      4. Getting the word out
      5. Fulfilling my purpose and passion
      6. Facing fear and failure
      7. A final word
    2. CHAPTER 2: UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH
      1. What is mental health?
      2. What is mental illness?
      3. Where do mental health and illness stem from?
      4. Youth mental health
      5. Why now?
      6. Key mental health conditions
      7. Always put your mental health first
      8. My work in mental health
      9. A bit about stress
      10. A final word
  9. PART II: HEALING AND SHARING
    1. CHAPTER 3: OWN YOUR STORY
      1. Why should I own it?
      2. It only takes one person
      3. How do you own your story?
    2. CHAPTER 4: START THE CONVERSATION
      1. How do we change this?
  10. PART III: THE FOUR PRACTICAL PATHWAYS TO MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING
    1. CHAPTER 5: PATHWAY 1: MOVE YOUR MIND
      1. Benefits of exercise
      2. Creating a habit
      3. My approach
      4. The joy of movement
      5. A final word
    2. CHAPTER 6: PATHWAY 2: FEED YOUR MIND
      1. Food and our mental health
      2. The impact of nutrition on our mental health
      3. Food habits in the Western world
      4. Popular diets
      5. My approach
      6. Eating disorders
      7. A final word
    3. CHAPTER 7: PATHWAY 3: CONNECT YOUR MIND
      1. Love and connection
      2. Connection comes from within
      3. My approach
      4. Relationships
      5. A final word
    4. CHAPTER 8: PATHWAY 4: STILL YOUR MIND
      1. Scientific benefits of meditation and mindfulness
      2. Ways to meditate
      3. Make it work for you
      4. My five wellness tools
      5. Internal vs external
      6. A mindset of purpose
      7. Scientific benefits of sleep
      8. Sleep and mental health
      9. Getting enough sleep
      10. My approach: creating my own mantra
      11. A final word
  11. PART IV: THE THREE STAGES OF SUSTAINABLE CHANGE
    1. CHAPTER 9: SET YOURSELF UP AND LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE
      1. Meaning and purpose
    2. CHAPTER 10: STAGE 1: MAKE A PLAN
      1. Baby steps
      2. Setting goals
    3. CHAPTER 11: STAGE 2: DO THE WORK
      1. PERMA™
      2. Creating healthy habits
      3. Resilience
    4. CHAPTER 12: STAGE 3: CHECK IN
      1. Observation
      2. Facing fears
      3. Building happiness
      4. An equation for happiness
  12. CONCLUSION
  13. INDEX
  14. END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Product information

  • Title: Move Your Mind
  • Author(s): Nick Bracks
  • Release date: August 2021
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9780730392040