The self-care movement is bringing awareness to the need to treat ourselves to feeling good. Rather than focusing on material items, you can view your health as an exciting opportunity to look and feel your best. If you’re looking for an easy way to treat yourself (and feel incredible in the process), challenge yourself to up-level your healthy habits and reward yourself for doing what you love.
Creating healthy routines you love is all about deciding how you want to feel every day. Do you want to feel energized, motivated, healthy, happy? Decide who you want to be, and then work backwards to build habits that make you feel that way. Take the time to learn about healthy eating and visit your doctor to ask what it takes for you to be at optimal health. As for staying motivated, keeping up with a wellness routine is all about adapting as you go and figuring out which pieces of your lifestyle make you feel best.
Mix and match these ideas to create your new wellness routine:
- Learn to meal prep and plan weekly meal ideas
- Grocery shop for whole, plant-based foods
- Take multivitamins and supplements if needed
- Use essential oils and natural herbs
- Meditate and visualize your healthiest self
Take Time Away
Treating yourself in a healthy way can also include getaways centered around healthy eating or activities. Regardless of your needs, there is a retreat, event, or location meant for making you feel your best. Even taking your lunch break to change environments and practice some yoga is enough to feel like you are worth taking great care of. When you consciously change environments, you activate your brain to look for new information that benefits your understanding of the world. Traveling, attending retreats, or simply taking time for yourself are some of the best treats of all.
Check out these ideas for healthy getaway plans:
- Take a vacation in a location full of healthy, fresh local food
- Attend a yoga retreat
- Sign up for a self-help conference or weekend course
- Spend time in holistic treatment centers for your mental health needs
- Simply take a day or two off for a “stay-cation”
Get Fit
Exercising might feel like a challenge if you’re just getting started, but fitness is the gift to your body that keeps on giving. Releasing endorphins, maximizing your energy, and loving how you look and feel are all incredible benefits that treat your body to feel its best. Creating a fitness routine can look however you want it to and is never a one-size-fits-all approach. Sticking to a healthy exercise routine is all about finding what you love to do, making it fun, and viewing it as a way to treat yourself to feeling good.
Consider these ideas if you are new to fitness routines:
- Sign up for a 5K
- Try a new fitness class
- Take a walk
- Stretch and do yoga poses
- Swim on vacation
Rewarding yourself with a healthy lifestyle is a fun (and often free) way to get excited about your health. If you view your healthy habits as a gift, you’ll stay motivated and inspired to continue them for life.
Author Bio: Patrick Bailey is a professional writer mainly in the fields of mental health, addiction, and living in recovery. He attempts to stay on top of the latest news in the addiction and the mental health world and enjoy writing about these topics to break the stigma associated with them. Patrick is currently a writer for Mountain Springs Recovery as well as on his own blog.
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