Begin And End Your Day With Self-Care
Like any new habit, adding self-care into your life can seem kind of tricky. You probably wonder how you’ll manage to find time to do anything extra for yourself, let alone how you will remember to do these things. Here’s a suggestion. One of the best ways to get started is to build your activities into predictable parts of your day. In order to make something a habit, it must happen regularly, so put it on your “To Do” list along with other meetings and planned activities. Keep reading, and we’ll show you more tricks to making self-care a routine part of your life.
Make It Personal
The first thing that will help you in creating your self-care rituals is to choose activities that are meaningful to you and that you enjoy. This is your practice, so customize it to “you” in order to get the most out of each new self-care ritual. Consider making a list of things that help you to feel relaxed, peaceful, excited, or happy. List activities that can be done in a short amount of time. Activities that will be easy to fit into your life without special equipment or tools. As you begin your practice of self-care, the actitivites you choose to do should be as simple as possible.
Fit It In
Now, add your self-care rituals to the most convenient parts of your day. Choose times that are already somewhat flexible so incorporating something new will be easy to manage and less stressful. Many people go with morning or evening routines, right when they wake up and before going to sleep each night. Getting up fifteen minutes earlier than usual, or setting aside a window during the usual night-time routine are more manageable time periods for most folks. However, you may want to carve out self-care time during or the middle of the afternoon. It makes no difference – this is YOUR time. Consider activities like writing a gratitude journal entry before bed, listening to music while having your morning coffee or going for a short walk over your lunch hour. Try different rituals and different times to see what works for you, but find a moment to call your own every day.
Be Flexible
It’s best to come up with a routine that works for you and stick to it. Committing to a particular schedule will help you to create a habit and ensures that you get the self-care you need. However, try to cut yourself some slack. Some days are more hectic than others. You may not be able to fit in your anticipated self-care activity, and that’s okay. Tomorrow is a new day, and you can try again. Soon, you’ll find yourself wanting to take part in these rituals and getting back on track will be easy. We often hear friends saying they “Missed their run”, or “Didn’t have time to meditate today”. But it is always followed by, “Ill make up for it tomorrow” which indicates that this is important to them and has become a self-care ritual.
Getting into the practice of regular self-care doesn’t have to be difficult. Making a few adjustments to your existing schedule can free up some space in your day. Choose things that will refresh you and that are simple in nature will make getting started a breeze.
Before You Go To The Action Plan, Check Out These Tools:
What are 3 current morning rituals?
What are 3 prep for bedtime rituals that you are now doing?
List 4 new, self-care rituals that you would like to incorporate into your day.
List several times during your day that you would like to try new self-care rituals.
Written by Diana Fuller
Written by Diana Fuller
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