Wednesday Wellness Tip - Make An Appointment With Yourself!
When it comes to wellness, appointments at the gym, the spa, your life coach, your doctor and maybe even your therapist if you need one are all important. You need the gym to stay in shape and pump up those endorphins (the feel-good hormones) and working out can give you that. You look well. You could use a spa visit to relax, chill, and dedicate some time to getting pampered by well trained and caring hands. You feel well. You might even hire a life coach like me to assist you with organizing, structuring and making a plan for your life to make sure it’s going in the direction you want it to go in. You plan well. You must go to see your doctor periodically or when you need a check up to make sure you are healthy and well enough to do the things you need and want to do in life. You are doing well. You may need to see a therapist to keep yourself well in the mind and let out some stressful things that are weighing on you and talking to a therapist can certainly help you do that. You sound well. While all these things are vital to wellness you can’t forget to pencil in some time with yourself and make sure you are dealing with reality and living in reality and you are breathing deliberately through your life’s ups and downs and stable enough to care for both. So, clear your calendar and make an appointment with yourself. Go to Barnes and Nobles (they have the best journals) and girls grab yourself a girly or feminine looking journal just for females, and guys grab yourself a manly or masculine looking journal just for males. Hook yourself up to YouTube and find a body scan video. Follow along with the guided scan and when you are done write down what you were feeling. Write down where you were feeling tense or irritated and see if you can figure out why you were feeling that way. Take note of any upsets, interferences, interruptions, or heartbreaks that transpired that day. Take note of your state of mind, your attitude, what made you smile, what opened your heart. Do this before your head hits the pillow to turn in for the evening. Why? Because when you release all your pent-up emotions and realize at the same time where they came from, why you were feeling that way then you have just let go of your day. You should sleep like a baby. So, the next time you are making appointments, and you see an alarm go off on your phone, add an appointment for yourself. Just you and your journal and of course the body scan video. This appointment with self will give you a peaceful settling in and when your head does finally hit the pillow and the lights are out, cell phone nowhere near you, t.v. off, you will feel at ease. You will feel peace. You will feel ready to really go to sleep and dream great dreams and wake up refreshed and ready for the new day ahead. You will feel well. Be well………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8zX-QbXIT4 - Guided Body Scan Meditation Video! (do this before you start your journaling so you can make note of what you were feeling during the meditation)
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