Like many of our self-care tips, this one has both physical and mental benefits. Cleaning is good for your mental health. This study showed how people who live in cluttered homes have higher levels of cortisol in their systems, indicating a direct link between your space and your stress. Visual clutter leads to mental clutter, even if you try to convince yourself this is just the way you are wired, and you've learned to live with it. Fortunately, this can be reverse engineered, meaning the more piles you get rid of, the calmer you will feel. Cleaning is good for your physical health, too.
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There is a quote attributed to Izak Dinesen that goes, "The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea." It is this sentiment that sparked today's self care suggestion, which invites you to take whichever piece you have available to you and use it in the spirit of taking care of yourself. Meditation is a habitual process of training your brain to focus and redirect thoughts, a way to connect with your Inner Knowing/Source Energy/God/the Universe, a method to build concentration and increase self-awareness, and today's self-care tip. It may sound super woo-woo at first but the health benefits are steeped in scientific fact, making it a practice that both cynics and mystics alike can confidently enjoy. While the list of benefits is long, here are my top five favorites: Saying what we mean and asking for what we want are, at the same time, very important habits to cultivate and skills that are rarely taught in schools, homes, or workplaces. But the mind-readers among us are few and far between so it absolutely behooves us to stretch ourselves in these specific ways. WHY? Whether we realize it or not, what we spend money on says a lot about our priorities (and our privilege, but that's a different conversation.) We vote with our dollars every single day. And as we've been discovering all month long, the self-care habits and actions you choose to engage in have a profound effect on your overall levels of happiness, health, and well-being. As we've also seen, self-care doesn't have to cost a thing, but today, we're going to let it. Today, the self-care task is reinforce your importance to yourself by choosing a way to invest in you. |
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