Self-care practices well worth making a priority

Self-care involves paying attention to your emotions and addressing them in a healthy manner. This may include seeking support from friends, family, or professionals when needed (we of course recommend seeing your kinesiologist).

Consider part of emotional well-being includes expressing yourself creatively, and engaging in activities that bring you joy and fulfillment. It is important to have fun and laugh. Pay attention to your internal dialogue and make it a discipline to speak to yourself with the encouragement and kindness you would to your best friend.

· For those who are self employed – stay connected to your WHY – the heart behind your business.

· Celebrate the wins

· Spend time with people who make you smile and feel good

· Employ regular discipline to be present and breathe

· Purposefully look for things your day to be grateful for – employ a cup half full attitude

· Connect with positive like-minded people

Improved relationships

When you prioritize self-care, you are better equipped to engage in healthy and meaningful relationships. When you feel balanced and content, you can give your best self to your interactions with others, fostering deeper connections. You may also notice as you prioritise your own wellbeing, the quality people you begin to attract into your life may shift.

Increased productivity and focus

Regular self-care helps enhance your ability to concentrate and be productive. Taking breaks and practicing relaxation techniques can improve your cognitive function and creativity, leading to better work performance and problem-solving skills. Self care It moves you out of the ‘fight flight’ mode where the brain can be scrambled and easily distracted. As you increase your ability to engage the parasympathetic nervous system, notice the increase in clarity of thinking, focus and productivity.

Stress management

Self-care provides effective tools for managing stress. Engaging in activities you enjoy, practicing mindfulness, and taking time for self-reflection can help reduce stress levels and promote a sense of calm. Having an outlet which puts a smile on your face and a sparkle in your step as it releases all those endorphins, weaves a little magic into the biochemistry of every cell in your body.

Self-esteem & confidence

Engaging in self-care can boost your self-esteem and self-confidence. When you take time to care for yourself and prioritize your needs, you send a positive message to yourself about your self-worth. Learn to set boundaries for yourself and for those people pleasers out there……it’s time to practice “no”. When you empower yourself to be unattached to what other’s think of you, consider you’re enhancing a greater level of authenticity for yourself.

Prevention of burnout

In our fast-paced and demanding world, burnout is a real thing. So many of us wear the “busy badge” as if it were a good thing…..If you aren’t busy well then you are obviously not doing enough or don’t have an exciting enough life…..WRONG!!!! Slow down, recalibrate, look at your life and ask what really matters. What will bring you back to centre? What makes you feel grounded and calm? It is not a race to the finish line and allowing yourself to recharge, rest, and reset, is essential for long-term well-being, and you may just find there was a whole lot of life you were missing in the frantic drive for “more”.

Personal growth & development

How well do you know yourself? When was the last time you participated in something which challenges personal growth and development within yourself? Engaging in activities that challenge you, setting and achieving goals, and engaging in self-reflection can contribute to your overall sense of accomplishment and fulfillment. It need not be work related, remember doing something for fun is all part of your wellbeing and maybe that is just what you need.

Life satisfaction

Ultimately, practicing self-care leads to greater life satisfaction. When you take the time to know yourself more, what makes you tick and what you really love and want for your life; who you are and what matters to you; then give yourself permission to prioritise those things, you are actually being an example to everyone around you who may just need to learn a little self-care themselves. When you nurture your physical, mental, and emotional needs, you are nurturing your whole experience of life and giving yourself (and those around you) the gift of a greater sense of well-being.

Energetic / vibrational / Qi (chi) support

An often-overlooked aspect of our wellbeing, relates to our subtle anatomy, our life force, our Qi. Science has shown that we and everything else in our universe (when broken down to the sub-molecular/sub-atomic level) are simply energy, resonance, vibration.

Our electromagnetic field (meridians and chakras) make up this fundamental system. This electromagnetic field is all innately interconnected with our physical, emotional and biochemical selves. So, management of this aspect of our being is a vitally powerful self-care hack and Kinesiology is the key to accessing the way to align this energetic connection.

Kinesiology enables us to assess where the energy is imbalanced, and then, identify the specific bespoke process it requires to reinstate harmony to your being.