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Creative Self Help - Health Rocks Trail

The original Health Rocks trail was produced for Manchester Museum. You can do as few or as many of the exercises as you want.

 

Wellbeing trail

We all know that we should eat five fruit and veg a day to care for our physical wellbeing, but did you know that scientists recommend we also take five simple actions a day to look after our mental wellbeing? Dubbed the five ways to wellbeing, these actions are:

 

  • Connect - because people are important to our wellbeing
  • Be active - because it raises mood and helps us sleep better
  • Take notice - because practising awareness of sensations, thoughts and feelings can help our wellbeing
  • Keep learning - because learning is good for our self-esteem and gives us skills for life
  • Give - and receive - because both make us feel good.

 

Inspired by Manchester Museum’s beautiful collections of fossils and minerals, this trail features five practical exercises to give you a taste of the five ways to wellbeing.

 

The exercises can be done using our Virtual Museum or in a different location, for example, at home. Each time you do them you will experience something different.

 

The trail was created by people from the local community on a course run by Start and The Manchester Museum. All the people involved recognise that creative activity and visits to museums and galleries can make a valuable contribution to improving and protecting wellbeing.

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