10 Essential Self-Care Tips for a Happier You

Have you noticed yourself lately?…. Just do it now.

If you are okay and fine with yourself, then Kudos. If not, then you must read on.

Feeling sluggish in every activity you do?

If you do feel blue today, then you must try these 10 Essential Self-Care tips to Liven Up Yourself and become a Happier You.

Do you see yourself as not having a proper heartfelt smile on your face for no reason, even if you make an effort you still feel the burden to smile?

Ufff! Everything seems like a burden, burden and more burden.

Thinking why you are not happy?

Maybe, you are feeling stressed, pressured, heartbroken, tired with your life and circumstances or all together something else that is bugging you.

Then I must tell you this. It is normal to feel this way. It is okay to be feeling those emotions because of the simple fact that you are HUMAN.

Humans were made with built-in emotions and feelings.

Allow yourself enough space to feel all of them, happy, sad, anger, joy, whatever it is, it will subside with time. Just give it some time.l

It is a proven fact that you can’t pour from an empty vessel. What it suggests is that a person should be happy and content with themselves first to make their surroundings and others happy.

When you have a deep sense of satisfaction, appreciation, and love towards yourself, you tend to give out the same.

The opposite holds as well. Meaning, dissatisfaction, stress, sadness, unhealthy toxic behavior towards yourself and others will only create more of it for you and others.

Do not worry! These are important moments and precious parts of everyone’s life. Even if you are a kid, teenager or an adult.

What we often fail to understand about ourselves is that all these negative and stressful emotions can and should be tackled from time to time.

I am going to show you just that over here.

No matter how much you do for your family, friends, colleagues, you should always take out time for yourself to unwind and show some self-love towards your own mental and physical well-being.

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Take a few deep breaths – 5 min

The MOST important aspect of our very existence is our breath, the moment you are born to the moment you leave this earth, one task you continuously perform is breathing.

We often take our breaths for granted and hence create unnecessary health concerns for ourselves.

Yes, something so trivial and simple does have a magnanimous effect on our overall well-being.

Observe your breaths now and then, you would see that you tend to take in real shallow breaths.

It is funny, even I do that.

Everyone is doing it!

Like merely there breaths. Hardly making an effort to blow in your lungs to their full capacity.

That’s a grave mistake we make, our health was supposed to be serene and not cause any havoc in our mind, at least not up till we are old and about to die anytime. Right?

So, as long as we keep breathing, let’s make a conscious effort to improve it and deepen it.

It is been scientifically proven that deep breaths allow more fresh air and oxygen into your body, which can become a remedy for instant relief from stress and many common ailments like headache, laziness, low energy levels.

It is important to make it a habit. So, take few deep breaths of at least 5 minutes throughout your day. It will make a gigantic difference.

Stretch your body – 5 min

Show your body some much-needed love and care, by merely performing 5 minutes stretch in the morning, evening or whenever you feel your body might need one.

The benefits of stretching are tremendous, it quickly brings movement and flexibility in the stiffest places of your body.

Externally you might not see the results right away. But, with time you will notice your emotions, digestion and stress levels get regulated.

All of which are important in normal wellbeing, you would see the detoxifying effect on your body, the excess fat starts to melt away gradually.

Seriously! Try it!

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Listen to your favorite songs – 5 min

Music can extensively help in reducing your stress levels.

Additionally, it can boost your memory, focus and sleep quality.

Listening to your favorite music piece, songs and compositions even for 5 minutes can instantly elevate your mood from rough, sad and lazy to a highly energetic, upbeat and happy mood.

Just 5 min of listening to favorites can put you in a happy frame of mind. Thereby reducing your stress levels effectively.

You can listen to it while doing your chores, workout, or just during your leisure time.

Meditate on your purpose – 15 min

Daily Meditating for at least 15 minutes can be a life-changing experience.

You will start developing a sense of calmness in your personality.

A sense of content and a happy feeling prevails in your mind through meditation.

The ability to process your thoughts, emotions, situations and decisions will have immense benefits through meditation.

Many a time one gets clarity about any situation or question that is there in the mind. Which would not have appeared to them otherwise.

Meditation creates a pathway for your mind to take action. Hence try to meditate on your purpose.

This helps in creating mental clarity to make a plan of action required to achieve your goals.

It creates all-round well-being in your body as it calms and regulates your blood pressure, heart rate, digestion, nervous system, thought process.

All the while developing the right mind, body coordination to reach and achieve your purpose

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Read a chapter of a book – 15 min

Try reading a physical book for 15 minutes, not the digital one.

Reading could be a leisure activity, just like playing an instrument, dancing, painting/sketching or cooking.

The whole idea is to make your mind ponder on things without digital screens.

This greatly rests your mind, as you do it for fun, Reading will not only enhance your knowledge and language but also will be tender to your eyes, plus a great sleep booster.

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Journal out your thoughts – 15 min

Journaling is a healing exercise and it helps a lot when it comes to your self-care.

Self-care is a lifelong journey with yourself.

You need to constantly look out for patterns in our emotions, behaviors and be aware of physical symptoms caused due to stress in various areas of our life.

Along with that, one also needs to know what triggers him/her, what are the coping mechanisms one takes to deal with situations, journaling helps to keep a track of all these.

As one recognizes these major aspects about oneself, it helps you to enhance your survival reactions, create healthy boundaries, and keep track of what is important and what is not.

It also helps you to keep track of your goals, dreams, ambitions and progress which will also include a lot of learning.

Journaling ultimately makes you confident about your choices, helps build empathy for yourself and others. Keeps you accountable for your decision and actions which could be an enlightening thing.

Take out at least 10 to 15 minutes of your time to do this activity.

It helps you to have a hold of your self-worth. A great sigh of Self-Care.

Take a walk outside – 30min

Physical exercise can be a mood booster in addition to the health benefits that you would get out of it.

Many a time, we are not able to do high-impact activities, exercises or any form of cardio or weight training.

Nonetheless, our body still needs some gentle movement for healthy functioning,

This is where, a walk in the garden, backyard, walkway, park, nature, woods, of to the nearby store can help you to unwind from your daily mundane activity.

Try doing it for 20-30 minutes.

You would feel fresh and ready for the day or the next task.

Keeping your joints, muscles, and mind engaged in an activity like walking is a long-term benefitting self-care routine.

Get creative/indulge in crafts – 30 min

If you don’t have the burning desire for inspiration and creativity somewhere in your life in any form, then, I bet that you would feel flat, down, anxious or alone.

Many people underestimate the fact that art or creative indulgence can be a healing therapy, that too for free.

The level of joy and relaxation one feels when they create anything is massive and increases your happiness quotient.

Such activities are excluded from any judgment or fear of being wrong, you simply do it for fun and do not want to impress anybody by doing it.

You do it for yourself and your happiness.

This greatly contributes to reducing the built-up anger, tension and stress levels.

Commit at least doing something artistic or creative for just 20-30 minutes a day and see the difference for yourself.

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Cook new recipes or your favorite dishes – 30 min

Cooking anything of your choice especially when it is something you like to eat or rather hog on it can be an excellent self-care activity.

It is an art, it requires one to be alert, creative and be able to manage time.

Once you start cooking you will observe that your knowledge increases about ingredients, flavor, quality and quantity.

While cooking, you will be engrossed, which makes you forget everything else for that time and keep your attention on cooking.

In the end, you also get to eat healthy food made with love and share it with your Family / Friends.

Be assured, it will liven up your day.

Take breaks in between heavily loaded works

This is the most important form of self-care ever.

You working back to back on your goals, attending meetings, focussing on any project, might seem like the best thing ever.

Taking a break in such situations may be restricted to catching up with people for work or doing some other work altogether.

Same with physical activities, like doing chores, exercising, lifting and moving heavy loads around the house or garage, grocery or essential shopping where you are the one lifting things most of the time. Take a break now and then.

What happens when one doesn’t take well-deserved breaks consciously?

One would feel tired, overwhelmed, stressed, burnt out, and stressed which will get extended to other areas of life as well.

Meanwhile, it becomes a requirement that you advocate for yourself and your needs.

Never forget your health, health should be the topmost priority because you are doing all the hard work to make bread and butter for you and your family but never at the cost of your health.

Neglecting your needs and priority and only working will always get you an accolade for having an insane “work ethic”.

What you will quickly find out is that not taking care of yourself will affect your work regardless.

The constant go-go-go mentality will result in anxiety, restlessness. Taking a break will give a break to your mind and body. A well-deserved one.

No matter how long you take the break. Its importance will never be reduced when it comes to your mental and physical health.

Taking mindful breaks will improve your digestion, benefit your mental health, develop a capacity to handle the workload.

Breaks would considerably improve your morals and confidence levels as the clarity of your thoughts increases due to your well-rested mind and body.

This results in creating fewer mistakes and creates a healthy enjoyable environment as you are not working on autopilot and are truly present in the activity rather than just keep working.

Take a break in any work prolonging more than 2 hours, ideally, medical doctors recommend a break in every half an hour.

Work could be anything, physical or mental, at home or office.

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