
One of the main excuses people make for ignoring articles about self-care is that they just don’t have time. The great news is that there are many different self-care practices, and none of them are especially difficult or require a lot of planning. The trick is to find some that you genuinely enjoy and that fit with your life and values. Once you start adding emotional self-care to your life, you’re likely to become fiercely protective of that time and wonder how you ever managed without it!
Sensation
Sensation refers to the feeling through all the 5 senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and sound. Fulfilling the sensation could help you to feel you are present at the moment. Temporary putting down the previous unresolved matter and relieve the anxiety about the future. By sensation self-care, you feel yourself and calm your mind.
· Eating your favourite food
· Smell the fresh air outdoor
· Cuddling inside the soft blanket or on the mattress
· Listening to calming music
· Enjoying massage with aromatic essential oil
· Taking deep breath and enjoying the heat of morning sun
Physical
Engage in physical activities that you love. Free your limbs from the bed, move your body and feel the sweat were great physical self-care. Physical activities not only refer to going to gym, but more than what you could think about.
· Walking and jogging at a park
· Learn a new sports
· Cycle around the lakeside
· Dance while singing your favourite song
· Stretch mildly whenever after a long period of work
Emotional
Self-care in the emotional aspect allows you to get the chance to acknowledge and engage in the feeling, no matter positive or negative feeling. Emotional self-care could help you to feel and accept the feeling in order to move forward.
· Writing diary or journal
· Praise yourself when you able to achieve something, even is small goal
· Deliberately encourage yourself to laugh with old memories or funny videos
· Let yourself cry when you need to
· Sing along to the song that best expresses your current emotions
Spiritual
spiritual self-care isn’t just about believing in a deity. It’s applicable to atheists and agonistics as much as to religious people. Spiritual self-care is about getting in touch with your values and what really matters to you.
· Keep up a daily meditation or mindfulness practice
· Walk in nature and reflecting on the beauty around you
· Make a list of 5-10 things that make you feel alive, then ask yourself how you can better incorporate these things into your life.
· Say affirmations that ground your sense of self and purpose
· Make a daily list of 5-10 things that make you feel grateful.
Social
Whether you’re an introvert or extrovert. However, connecting with other people is necessary for happiness for a large diversity of people.
· It helps you to understand that you’re not alone. Plus, it can also give us a sense of being fully “seen” by others. This can, in particular, help us combat loneliness and isolation.
· Make a date to have lunch or dinner with a great friend.
· Write an email to someone who lives far away, but who you miss.
· Reach out to someone you like but haven’t seen in a while.
· Consider joining a group of people who share your interests.
· Stop socializing with those who undermine or disempower you.
· Strike up a conversation with someone interesting.
· Join a support group for people who struggle with the same things you do.
· Sign up for a class to learn something and meet new people at the same time
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