This past year has been a hectic year for many all over the world. People have been coping with all that life brings in many ways. One way to combat the chaos of the world around us is to focus on self-care practices. There are many reasons why introducing practices of self-care into your life can make a pivotal difference in your day to day. For many, these practices and habits get overlooked in the chaos of the day.
What Is Self-Care Self-care is defined as any activity that is intentionally meant to care for our mental, physical, emotional, and even spiritual health and wellness.
Practicing self care allows you to be at your best so that you can work, interact with friends and family, and do all the things you need to and want to in your day. This can look very different for each individual but some common self-care activities are listed below.
Self-Care Practices:
• Yoga
• Taking a hot bath to relax
• Enjoying a cup of tea
• Journaling
• Meditation
• Spirituality Practices
• Getting a massage.
• Listening to calming music
• Cutting down on screen time.
And many more.
Why Is Self-Care Important
Adding self-care practices to your life has many benefits, most notably, self-care is shown to reduce stress. Many people also feel that making time in their lives for self-care practices improves their own mental health and get greater levels of happiness in their daily lives.
Taking care of yourself as shown to improve not just your mental heath but also your physical health. Many health care professionals are adopting an integrative health care style approach that includes checking in with patients to help them seek balance in all aspects of life in order to combat illness, disease, or disability, helping people facing illness or disease to recover faster, better, and more successfully overall.
Tips To Practice Self Care In Your Life
• Get enough sleep
• Balance your commitments and priorities
• Make a weekly schedule
• Say no to optional tasks or events you don’t want to take on.
• Stay on top of physical and mental health
• Exercise
• Allow quality time for friends and family.
Making space for self-care in your life provides great benefits to physical and mental health and should be personally enriching and fun.
Self-care is not selfish; it is vital to being a well healthy and balanced person, letting you face whatever life throws at you without breaking your stride.