5 Routine Self-Care Habits For You
The interest and awareness around self-care has taken a giant leap in the past few years. With social media and it’s gazillion influencers, each coming up with a new concept around it.
Maybe it’s a scented bubble bath, maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s skipping your work for a day, maybe it’s not. Who knows?
All of us go through different circumstances, different difficulties each day with varying coping mechanisms. These superficial habits could mean self-care for one, self-sabotage for another.
As cringey or fancy as the term “self-care” sounds, it is essential to keep us sane and productive in all aspects of our life. With this article, we try to give you five basic daily self-care practices that are suitable for people from all walks of life.
Maybe it’s a scented bubble bath, maybe it’s not. Maybe it’s skipping your work for a day, maybe it’s not. Who knows?
All of us go through different circumstances, different difficulties each day with varying coping mechanisms. These superficial habits could mean self-care for one, self-sabotage for another.
As cringey or fancy as the term “self-care” sounds, it is essential to keep us sane and productive in all aspects of our life. With this article, we try to give you five basic daily self-care practices that are suitable for people from all walks of life.
Tidy Up Your Surroundings
Whether it’s your workspace, your closet or your living room coffee table, it’s good to keep clearing up the clutter every once in a while. This reorganising and cleaning will give you a sense of accomplishment and refreshment. Having less visual clutter can relieve stress and anxiety that you may not even have been aware of. In addition to all that, a cleaner and more organised workspace will get your creativity going.
Build a Self-Care Kit (and USE IT)
It can be anything that brings you comfort after a long, stressful day. A bobblehead of your favourite Marvel character, essential oils and other aromatherapy supplies, photographs that make you smile, a yoga mat, a peel-off mask or just knitting needles and yarn. Literally anything that soothes you, add it to your self-care kit.
Acknowledge Your Feelings
The key to sanity is feeling all the emotions that come to you, acknowledging them and then reeling in that space of mind. When you learn to deal with your own emotions and issues, you can really be there for your loved ones in your fittest form. So take all the time you need when you're going through negative emotions, rushing through them or suppressing them altogether will only worsen the situation.
Take a Break From Social Media
Speaking from personal experience, it really works. You never realise what wonders you can do just by suppressing the urge to click on the addictive Mark Zuckerberg owned icons on your phone. Mindless scrolling is a habit all generations need to quit. Once you get used to it, taking time-off social media will feel like a breath of fresh air and a boon, both at the same time.
Say Thank You (to Everything & Everyone)
When you open your arms wide open, to all the good and the bad that life has to offer, you become undefeatable. Nothing can bring you down anymore. Take your betrayals and losses as life-lessons, be grateful for them and move forward. And when everything’s going wrong, take a step back and look at the tiny things that are going right, and say thank you.