A scuba diver looks down at shoals of fish and brightly coloured corals. Diving helps to reduce stress, promote mindfulness, and improve your mental well-being. Photo: Padi A scuba diver looks down at shoals of fish and brightly coloured corals. Diving helps to reduce stress, promote mindfulness, and improve your mental well-being. Photo: Padi
A scuba diver looks down at shoals of fish and brightly coloured corals. Diving helps to reduce stress, promote mindfulness, and improve your mental well-being. Photo: Padi
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How scuba diving can boost mental health and mindfulness, and lower stress – it’s all that deep breathing, and the undersea wonders

  • Scuba diving offers people a way to get away from it all, instructors say, and forces you to focus on the here and now
  • Many places across Asia – from Hong Kong to the Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia – offer great diving

Topic |   Wellness
Shanna McGoldrick

Updated: 5:23pm, 8 Dec, 2019

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A scuba diver looks down at shoals of fish and brightly coloured corals. Diving helps to reduce stress, promote mindfulness, and improve your mental well-being. Photo: Padi A scuba diver looks down at shoals of fish and brightly coloured corals. Diving helps to reduce stress, promote mindfulness, and improve your mental well-being. Photo: Padi
A scuba diver looks down at shoals of fish and brightly coloured corals. Diving helps to reduce stress, promote mindfulness, and improve your mental well-being. Photo: Padi
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