Self-care. Tips to put it into practice.

When we talk about self -care we mean all the behaviors and thoughts that row in favor of taking care of us, to respect us and give us support. People are social beings, So we tend to be surrounded by other people we want and appreciate, With them we usually act very friendly, empathic and affectionate. We always try to have everything they may need, even many times for ensuring that they have all that, We stop attending our own needs.

In cases where we act under the role of caregiver or overprotector, That usually happens, that our needs ceased to be met a long time ago to meet those of others. So, When we start trying our needs, It happens that many difficulties arise to do so and even that it is difficult for us to identify what these needs are. For this to start with basic self -care actions in our day to day it will help us a lot to start paying us attention, Enjoy moments with igotres and above all to give our person a space. In this way we can be becoming more aware until we hear what are those needs that we have left unattended without realizing it.

On my Instagram profile@SaboreatusemocionesI proposed a tool to “motivate ourselves” to have self -care behaviors in our day to day and asked the people who follow me, What self -care behaviors carried out, There were many answers received, So I organized them so you can have them as options if you do not know where to start with this self -care.

Physical

• Go for a walk
• Organize healthy meals
• Let me not always eat healthy
• Do sports (yoga, skate, run…)
• Maintain care and hygiene (facial routines, creams, Manicure ...)
• Relaxing shower
• Plan some plan to do home
• Give me a feet massage
• Walk aimlessly
• Dance

Emotional

• Pay attention to how I feel
• Meditate
• Forgive me
• Practice gratitude
• Do not crush for the past
• Find new hobbies that I may like
• Focus on me 5 senses to connect with the environment
• Write
• Breathe
• Write 3 I like things about me

Social

• Ask for help
• Say no if I don't feel like
• Call someone
• Surround myself with people who make me feel good
• Put limits with whom it does not make me feel good
• Look old photos

Hedonic (I have done this section apart because I consider that self -care will not always be focused on doing what we like the most, Sometimes for self -care we will have to do things we don't like, But they are part of respecting us).

• Drink me a glass of wine
• Prepare a meal that I like
• I self -stimulate
• Go out to feel the sun on your face
• Draw or paint
• Tumb me to the couch or in bed without doing anything
• Go to the beach or mountain
• Listen to music
• File
• Turn around
• See series or a movie

Remember that we have spoken that self -care is focused on respecting you and taking care of yourself, So it will not always generate well -being, but we may ever feel that it bothers us or bothers us to carry out certain actions, Because we may not be used to implementing it, That is why I have differentiated in one of the sections the hedonic self -care, because that if he would be more focused on the search for pleasure exclusively.

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Article written by our psychologist Berta.