Prioritize Your Self-Care
Shandra Martinez
| 2 min read
According to PositivePsychology.com, self-care is looking after your inner and outer self. It’s doing what you need to make sure you feel healthy, happy and content every day. Self-care looks different for everyone, but there’s a common goal: to relieve the pressures of everyday life and bring us back into balance and harmony so we can be at our best. Below are some reasons why prioritizing self-care is important, and suggestions for tending to your well-being.
- Can be relaxing, stimulating and enjoyable.
- Improves performance.
- Boosts inner strength.
- Supports mind and body.
- Maintains resilience.
- Increases clarity and energy.
- Can be a social activity.
- Supports overall well-being.
Self-care can be practiced alone or by spending time with your spouse, family and friends, even by volunteering. Connecting with others is an important part of self-care. It doesn’t have to take a lot of time. Depending on your needs, a walk in nature, taking a few deep breaths or relaxing in a hammock can be rejuvenating.
Ideas of self-care to support the mind:
- Mindfulness/meditation
- Brain break
- Positive affirmations
- Gratitude
- Journal
- Breathe
- Silence
- Random act of kindness
- Experience joy
- Plan something
- Nurture relationships
- Spend time in nature
Ideas of self-care to support the body:
- Physical activity
- Move often
- Strength training
- Flexibility and stretching
- Balance training
- Hydration
- Sleep hygiene
- Eat healthy foods
- Skin-care regimen
- Preventive care
Learn more about prioritizing your self-care in this Blue Cross Virtual Well-Being℠ webinar. You can also sign up for future employer-focused and general interest webinars here, where you’ll find past sessions and resources.
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