Physical Self-Care
This term refers to practices intended to increase the chances of restful sleep, which in turn improves productivity and well-being.
What is sleep hygiene?
This mental self-care can be done in many different techniques, and involves inhaling and exhaling in deliberate rhythms and paces.
What are breathing exercises?
Developing this is essential to practicing emotional self-care.
What are healthy boundaries?
This form of spiritual self-care usually involves offering praise, expressing gratitude, making a request, or expressing one's thoughts to a Higher Power.
What is prayer?
A blank environment can reduce anxiety levels, and allow us to feel more regulated and productive. Keeping your environment in this state can help you feel relaxed, accomplished, and stress free.
What is clean?
Adults need this many hours of sleep a night.
This mental self-care activity involves focusing on your breathing and focusing or clearing your mind using mental and physical techniques.
What is meditation?
This emotional self-care practice involves shifting your focus from what is going wrong, and focusing on what is going well and appreciating the good in your experiences.
What is practicing gratitude?
This spiritual self-care practice involves interacting with like-minded individuals who may share in your belief system; this has been linked to fewer depressive symptoms and increased social connectedness.
What is joining a religious community; attending religious events; going to church?
These promote healthier air quality, as well as alleviate stress and anxiety, and increase happiness hormones in the brain, and are therefore beneficial to have in your space.
What are plants?
What is good hygiene practices?
This mental self-care may take the form of writing down your feelings and emotions at the end of your day.
What is journaling?
What is mindfulness?
This spiritual self-care activity may involve using your time to help your community or give back to those around you.
What is volunteering?
This practice is commonly called this, and involves a thorough annual cleaning of your space.
What is spring cleaning?
Just this amount of time spent walking every day can help boost your mood and improve your health.
What is 30 minutes?
This form of mental self-care has been shown to reduce stress, increase feelings of calm, and can leave you feeling refreshed and focused.
What is spending time in nature?
Taking a break from this can be beneficial for easing feelings of low self-esteem and depression, and limiting exposure has been shown to increase well-being and reduce the occurrence of comparison to others.
What is social media?
This form of spiritual self-care does not have to involve a Higher Power, but involves moving and stretching your body, and has been shown to help your mind and spirit.
What is yoga?
This involves intentionally have fewer possessions in your space, and is characterized by simplicity and using the bare essentials in your space. For some, is can reduce feelings of stress and anxiety.
What is minimalism?
This form of physical self-care reduces anxiety, depression, and improves self-esteem. It also releases endorphins that enhances your sense of well-being.
What is exercise?
This mental self-care can be beneficial when feeling overwhelmed, and can allow us to feel recharged.
What is taking time to rest?
Practicing these two things can help you maintain a healthier inner dialogue.
What are self-compassion and acceptance?
This prayer is frequently recited in AA, and reminds people of the need for acceptance, change, and wisdom.
What is the Serenity Prayer?
Doing this within your home or finding a similar space elsewhere can be helpful to rest and rejuvenate where we can connect our mind to our surroundings
Creating a Sacred Space