Good evening!
I just thought I would pop in and add a quick post!
I keep coming across a recurring theme in the signs that keep popping up in my world, especially this past week! I am a huge believer that signs are real and I believe that signs are little hints from the Universe to help you find the path that has been created just for you and to help you stay on that path!
This week, I keep seeing and hearing hints that self care is just as important to having a creative life as is the actual act of “Arting” (yep, that’s a verb in my world!) This has been a message that is trying hard to put itself front and center during almost every moment of my day!
So, in my new role as woman who consciously listens and acts on what her subconscious is trying to tell her, I have decided to try and put together a list of ways that I can incorporate self care into my already busy days! 🙂
- Wake up consciously saying that “Today is going to be an EXCELLENT day!!”
- Roll over and kiss my sweetie and take a couple of minutes to snuggle! That is a QUALITY way to start my day out on the right foot!
- When I finally do get out of bed, take a few minutes to stretch, and take stock of how all the parts of my body is feeling!
- Drink a cool glass of water as soon as getting out of bed as possible! HYDRATE! HYDRATE! HYDRATE!
- Get your booty outside! Take a walk, chase any patch of sunshine you could find (it is Oregon after all!), this doesn’t have to be strenuous, just do it!
- Take time to sweat, on purpose every day! I find that if I do this in the name of playing, than I have a much better time of it – swimming, jumping rope, playing ball, playing tag, racing my sweetie, dancing, playing on monkey bars, etc. etc.
- Take some time, every day, to get quiet! I know this a hard one for some of you, but you would be sooooooo surprised what your soul will try to communicate with you when you just get quiet enough to hear it!
- Be conscious about what you eat/drink all day! Fuel yourself with real, whole, nutritious foods!
- Try to minimize stress, at the very least, do things that calm you to counterattack stress, such as meditation, yoga, nature walks, breathing exercises, etc.
- Make time to play/laugh every day! This can be done with friends, co-workers, family, someone you meet at the grocery store – it doesn’t matter! Laughter truly is healing!
- Pamper yourself – give yourself a manicure, or a pedicure, take a long luxurious bath, maybe with bubbles? How about using your favorite body cream, give yourself a deep conditioning foot rub, or how about treating yourself to a facial, deep conditioning hair treatment, or even a simple face mask!! Ooh! that really sounds good!
- Cut some fresh flowers for your house!
- Take yourself to bed early to catch up on that juicy book you’ve been wanting to read!
- Call a friend that you have been wanting to catch up with!
- Take yourself out for coffee, or a fancy lunch date!
This is just a short list of all of the possible self care activities you can try! I am sure you have a BUNCH you can ad to my list! Tell me in the comments what you would add! 😉
Here is to a Beautiful Creative (quality safe care) kind of life! 😉
