If you are currently working from home or self-isolating you now have a rare and golden opportunity to put more of a focus on your health and wellbeing.
This is the time to start as you mean to go on – to put a new practice and routine in place.
If you can make these positive changes now, my hope is that when you realise how much better you feel, you will find a way to keep them up when life resumes back to normal.
You have the time to create and embed ‘new healthy ways of being‘.
And a way of being is exactly what it says – it’s what you do instinctively, it’s who you are … Rather than something feeling like a chore, a “should do” or a “I haven’t really got time for that“.
So, here are my top suggestions – some of these sound obvious and super simple I know, but I have put everything here for a specific reason because they can and do have the potential to make a profound difference to your overall mental, emotional and physical state:
- Exercise every day – some kind of movement.
- Your body thrives on routine – so sleeping, eating, exercise etc at the same time.
- Eat your evening meal earlier – ideally around 6.00-7.00pm.
- Get more sleep – earlier to bed, ‘siesta’ naps during the day.
- Get more rest and have more breaks – less busyness.
- A morning ritual – to set you up mentally for the rest of the day.
- Getting up earlier – if you eat and go to bed earlier than usual, you will feel more energised in the mornings.
- Eating a proper breakfast every day.
- Taking more time to have fun.
- Get started on that hobby or creative project – a.k.a mindfulness.
- Start meditating, journaling, and giving gratitude every day.
- Read those books you’ve been meaning to read.
- Cook more homemade wholesome meals.
- Start eating more healthy foods.
- Start batch cooking.
- Eat more – as in eating 3 proper, decent meals a day.
- Drink more water.
- Have more sex.
- Spend more time in nature – the garden, and parks.
- Get more daylight, as opposed to being in artificial light.
- Pamper yourself.
- Learn/study something new.
I will cover a number of these points in more detail over the next week or two but for now, take a look at this list and think about how many of these you want to start doing for yourself. Note them down and make a plan.
Many people have saved time on their commute, so I encourage you to use this time to focus on your wellbeing!
Kate x
