Love Yourself First
What if You Devoted a Month To Loving Yourself More?
Often the month of February is looked at as the month of love. With Valentine's day, the focus shifts to our love of family, friends and significant others, but what about self-love?
It is often easier to take care of others, meeting their needs while putting ourselves on the backburner. This practice and frame of mind can have detrimental effects on our health. Simply put, we cannot give others our best when we are not at 100%. Therefore, it is important to take care of our own physical, mental and spiritual needs before we can truly be our best to others.
Taking the time to practice self-love does not need to be a demanding or a long daily task but rather can be small acts such as:
- Taking a nap
- Working out
- Reading
- Walking in Nature
- Sunbathe
- Daily affirmations
There also may come a time when you feel that you need to do a larger form of self love, and treat yourself to something bigger. In these cases, consider:
- Booking an FST session at Nova Health Club
- Getting a massage at Rose Water Spa
- Going out for healthy lunch
A less practiced form of self-love is external decluttering. Each week pick one area in your life that needs to be cleaned or decluttered. Focus your energy on removing all unnecessary items from this area. This can be anything, from doing a big job like your yard, to a small thing, like removing unused apps from your phone. External decluttering will decrease anxiety, stress and improve parasympathetic engagement of the nervous system to make you feel more relaxed and the best version of yourself.
We hope that this gave you inspiration on how to take time for self-love this month. What will you do for yourself this February?
