Two letters with the power to change life by 200%. If you know why to practice Self care, this can be to you if followed well. It is simple to start, and easy to practice but requires a little effort to keep it continuous.
To keep it going. It’s like putting one brick at a time and if followed regularly, it could lead to a flat, a villa, or a castle. It totally depends on how many bricks you add and the plan you take to lay it. Self care helps in building strong relationships, making things easier, and developing a better sense of understanding, to create a better you.
So let’s look into the details of why self-care is important and explore the ways we can achieve it.
How does practicing self care help?
In managing stress
I’ve heard a lot of people say, stress is important. When the pressure and stress of a deadline seem clear, they find completing a task easy. So they feel stress is essential in life. Though they got the point that a deadline ensures you know the line, we can always take it up as deadlines remind us of the responsibility of the work we are to complete. But it can never be stressful if we start working way before our deadline.
And stress is never important, easy, or essential. Caring for self makes you realize the value of every task and how to manage time to complete them on time. It’s like having a sense of responsibility already and not waiting for a deadline to remind you of it. Self care makes your life look like it’s owned, managed, and organized well.
In building social bonds
Imagine having a friend to crib about every small thing that happens in your life. Again, having a friend you maintain yourself and stay conscious not to crib in front. In both places, somehow, you’re missing out on connecting to the core. When you practice self care, or let’s say understand it in depth with the help of a self care coach, you get a better understanding that what you were cribbing about wasn’t even necessary.
What life has bestowed for you is so much more than noticing these minor challenges. And then you start looking at the bigger picture. You stop complaining or cribbing, not because you don’t want to but because there’s nothing in your focus to criticize. This same formula applies to all your social bonding. You come out to be a cheerful person without forcing yourself to be one.
In keeping you organized
Most often we want to stay organized. and even know how to be it. Yet, most of the time we fail to practice it. And one main reason behind this is that people don’t know how to go about it. What to do next. Why stay organized in every step of life? When you start taking care of yourself, you get these answers. Every small practice impacts big leaps in your life.
For instance, if you spend one or two hours every Sunday, and plan out your week in advance, you already know a lot of things you need to complete from Monday-Saturday. This not only creases out your mental space but also gets your work done easily, making us walk more miles of life than we usually do. If you know that you have to read 10 pages before sleeping, you will automatically keep your phone away and sign up for a concentrated sleep.
In making you confident
When you have control over your movement. Say in what you think, what you eat, what you do, how you act, and why you perform, you have your answers already. You don’t stay confused with your life. This, in turn, helps you in building other important things in life, because you’re already sorted with things that the majority struggle in.
For eg, you might be spending time keeping yourself calm, so small challenges might not trigger you as much as it does to one who doesn’t spend time analyzing their calmness and patience. Or you might be eating good food and focusing on staying healthy, so seeing some junk but your favorite food might not trigger your taste buds. And this boosts your confidence. You find yourself capable of making good decisions leading to building trust in yourself.
In developing your health
Self care coaching is not just to understand the importance of self care and why to go about it. They help you enhance your vision and understanding of your life and then discuss how you can try building it while keeping well with your current situation. The habits you develop and the choices that you start making impact your health tremendously. When you undergo self care coaching training, the practice impacts your physical, mental, as well as your emotional health. How?
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Because once you know why you should be taking care of yourself, you do it with all your dedication. You’re clear on why you want it and walk all the steps to make it possible. This is the clarity that my self coaching program strives to achieve. Because you might not be able to walk far on someone else’s shoulders, but if your foot allows, running for miles becomes achievable. I am your divine buddy who helps you in running those roads yourself. Let’s make building a better life possible together!