ADHD Toronto Essential 8

8 Proven Tools to Help Live A Balanced Life

What is in your Wellness Toolbox?

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ADHD medication provides the cognitive function. The combination of the appropriate medication with psycho-educational courses is proven to facilitate change. The ability to manifest wellness is central to your lifestyle.

Get a minimum of 7 hours of sleep daily. Stop looking at screens thirty minutes before bedtime. This includes television, tablet, and mobile.

Drink a minimum of 2L water daily. You may assume eight cups of water are a lot. Consider your body is 75% water; the brain is 75% water; lungs obtain 90% water; skin is 80% water; bone 24% water; and muscle is 75% water. Water converts food into energy and helps to absorb nutrients.

Consume a nutritious diet. Well-being is reduced with a deficient diet and it is expensive to be unhealthy. Delay the effects of ageing and energise yourself. A proper diet maintains your immune system and aids you to manage your weight.

Exercise to block stress, improve memory, sleep and mood. It will boost your self-esteem and frame of mind; support you to feel calmer and develop resiliency; reduce tension in your body and foster a sense of accomplishment. More sensibly, exercise improves cognitive function and raises creativity.

Meditate to significantly reduce stress and increase energy. A routine practice proven to reduce feelings of depression, pain, anxiety, anger, and confusion. The resulting enhanced immune system helps to reverse heart disease and increase blood flow and slow your heart rate providing a sense of calm and balance.

Get out in the community, go for a walk and overcome isolation. 30 minutes a day can reduce symptoms of depression by 36%. 40 minutes three times a week protect planning and memory brain functions. 30 to 60 seconds a day can drastically lower your risk of heart disease. Just two hours of walking per week reduces the danger of stroke by 30% with 3500 steps a day lowering the chance of diabetes by 29%. Four hours of walking per week can reduce the risk of hip fractures by up to 43%. A daily 60 minute walk can lower your risk of obesity in half.

Identify, set and convert your goals into challenging, achievable milestones. It will support you to prioritise tasks, be efficient, improve performance and eliminate attitudes that hinder you.

Be compassionate and express gratitude. This direct action will serve you well by increasing your optimism, selflessness, spirituality, empathy and self-esteem leading to genuine happiness.