Raising My Personal Standards to Take Better Care of Myself
I am on a quest to take really good care of myself. It will involve changing some of my old habits and starting new ones that will help me BE the person I really want to be. Most of the women in my family and a majority of my female friends are excellent at taking care of others first. The "gang" and I will give and give until we are angry and exhausted, and some medical ailment will send us to bed or a spa to get some rest.
I'm ready to break the cycle. Enough already!
I started a few months ago with something easy - washing my face and putting on nice lotion before bed. It seems so simple, but taking that extra 5-10 minutes is still a challenge for me. The next thing I added was a short yoga routine every morning. Two new habits that I'm still working to make as automatic as brushing my teeth every day. I can't wait for the day when I won't even think about it, I'll just wash my face automatically. Or I'll go straight to my yoga room when I open my eyes each morning.
It's time to kick it up a notch! I'm ready to raise my standards and make really big shifts in the way I take care of myself! I'm focusing on 3 new standards starting today:
- I enjoy pleasurable evenings at home.
- I love to move my body and it keeps me feeling young.
- I'm well rested.
The next step is to determine what I need to say NO or YES to in order to achieve these new standards. Strong boundaries around these new standards will be very important. I'll need to say NO to working late, NO to skipping yoga and NO to staying up late. And I'll say YES to having pleasurable things to do each evening, YES to 15 minutes of yoga and YES to my nightly ritual to prepare for sleep.
I'm excited about my new level of self care! I believe that self care is the strong foundation that is needed to build a super fantabulous life. If you have stories about successes or struggles around self care, please share them!
You might enjoy reading these articles that inspired me:
Leo Babauta's blog Zen Habits is about motivation, among other things.
Read about how powerful our thoughts are at the Good Vibe Blog!
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Doing things that will make you feel wonderful and positive is one of the things that needs to prioritize.
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You can do it! All you need are time and self discipline.
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Taking care of ourselves is very very important.Nowadays many of them selfish they doesn't even think of others heart.If you hurt by others what will you do? If you have cheated by others what will you do? We should not get disappoint because of that.We should take it as easy going way.This also one of the caring information by ourselves.
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During the process of opening your spine, hips and shoulders in backbending, some common negative emotions are fear, anxiety, sadness, claustrophobia, suffocation, and anger. Some common positive sensations are joy, happiness, trust, release, surrender, peace, heightened energy flow and true power. One of the first lessons along the spiritual path is that when you’re confronted with life’s greatest challenges, you must learn to stay where you are and not run away. Yoga Sutra 2.1 defines Tapas as accepting pain as help for purification. You only purify yourself when you stand directly in the fire and choose a new path over escapism, denial and running away. It’s a powerful choice to stay amidst the intense fear that pain in any of your joints evokes.
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Did I get worse the more I practiced? Can that even happen? Sports coaches and music teachers will tell you that it can - if you practice doing it wrong instead of doing it right. If you repeatedly practice bad habits, they will become ingrained habits. Email and instant messaging may have taught people how to type better, but I don’t think it’s teaching them to write better.
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yeah, definitely the mental state depends the performance in any field, discipline and positive mind. pretty good tips for getting success as professionally as personally.
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Very interesting tips you point out in here, Definitely it is very important to learn how to live in the situations and circumstances and develop good relationships to get integral success as everyone wants to.
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Great overview. Your style of writing is really a joy to read.
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Hi! everyone,
i think if you do Yoga every day. You will make your health good.
regards to all
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