In part three, we explored how the fuel you put into your body plays a critical role in your overall well being. If you missed it, make sure you catch up here. Today, we’re shifting focus to something equally important: feeding your soul. Your mindset and emotional care are just as vital as nourishing your body, especially during those busy, challenging moments when self-care tends to slip through the cracks. Let’s dive into how practicing self-care can transform your life, and how to start putting yourself at the top of your priority list.
Feed Your Soul
Mindset plays a huge role in your overall wellbeing and how good it feels to be you. And yet you might find that taking care of your emotional needs when life gets busy or complicated slips way down your list of priorities. It’s during these exact times that practising self-care is even more essential.
Self-care is the recognition that you are entirely responsible for your own happiness (although others can, of course, contribute to it). All kinds of things might come into a good self-care plan, from doing little things for yourself every day just because they bring you joy, to deliberately seeking out the good in life and ensuring that you get enough rest.
Create a Self-Care Plan
When life feels a little tricky, or you’re just feeling a little bleugh, you’re not in the right space to begin thinking about what might help in the moment. That’s a job you must prioritise now – it’s hard to feel creative when the chips are down!
My coaching for you would be to begin to compile a list of all the things you might do to bring joy to your day. It must be an actual list (in a notebook or in the notes section of your phone) rather than a conceptual ‘in your head’ one because it will be easier to take action on any ideas written down when you’re most in need of some self TLC rather than try to recall them from your memory.
What might be on your list? Pretty much anything goes, but it’s important that these are not things that you do ‘in order to…’ Simple things that make you happy. Enjoying a cup of coffee in the garden before the rest of the house gets up, reading a chapter of a novel you’ve been meaning to read forever, doing a jigsaw, taking a long, luxurious dip in the bath, dancing around the kitchen, or watching an episode of your favourite TV show’. Start with five things and keep adding to your list over time as you get into the swing of things.
You’re heading for 20. Consider self-care to be a skill, and also a discipline. It may take a little time to force yourself to be a priority in your life once again, but I cannot stress enough, it is something that is really worth doing.
Praise & Give Thanks
There’s a lot of evidence to show meditating and practising gratitude really work for your general wellbeing as well as a ‘treatment’ for insomnia. If you think you are not a natural meditator, you are not alone. Guided meditation is what you need.
There are plenty of free or low-cost apps around that will literally guide you through the process for ten minutes. It’s easier than you think, especially when you consider that there is no ‘getting it wrong’. Your mind may well wander. Gently bring it back. Even the busiest of people have ten minutes for a good cause (which this is). There’s a lot to like about gratitude.
Essentially, it’s about training your mind to seek out the good stuff in life instead of gravitating to the bad on the basis that the brain (though complex in so many ways), cannot focus on both good and bad at the same time. And, quite simply, what you focus on increases. If you focus on the good, you will find more of it!
Some people like to keep a gratitude journal where they write down the things they are grateful for every day. Some people aren’t that way inclined. A very simple way to try out gratitude is to start each day, before you’ve even got out of bed, by telling yourself that something truly amazing and wonderful is going to happen. It will be something unexpected, exciting and awesome.
This sets up a powerful intention for the day. Then make it your job to seek out the joy in every situation, the good fortune, the luck or the beauty and mentally comment to yourself on these. This takes a little practice, but it’s worth it. Don't believe me? The only way to really know is to do it.
Now that you’ve got the tools to nourish your soul with mindset shifts and self-care practices, it’s time to dive into something many of us don’t do - rest. In Part 5, we’ll talk about why rest isn’t just a luxury, but a necessity for your health, your energy, and your success. You’ve been filling up your cup, but now it’s time to let it overflow.
If this resonated, here are three powerful articles to explore next:
• Be The CEO of Your Health - Part 3
• Be The CEO of Your Health - Part 5
• Be The CEO of Your Health - Part 6
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