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WAYS TO NURTURE OURSELVES
As part of our natural healing process, we need to be mindful of
nurturing ourselves. Daily ways in which we might do this include:
- Prepare good food and eat mindfully
- Engage in daily nature breaks
- Seek simplicity:
- Identify what you are willing to take on
in order to reach your goals.
- Identify what you are willing to let go of.
- Identify activities that are all-consuming but not necessarily
important to you. This is a case of "less is more" -
doing less of what is not important enables you to
do more of what matters most.
- Let go of relationships that do not enhance
your life. That's right - people can be clutter,
too!
- Let go of possessions that do not enhance
your life on a regular basis - things that
take up
space, require
maintenance,
and make
decision-making more complicated.
- Let go of important tasks that someone
else can do - delegate!
- Let go of petty annoyances. Make a list
of 10 things in your life that bother
you. Then
give
yourself
a month to
fix it,
clean it, toss it, etc… or let go of it!
- Let go of the past. Imagine where you
want to be in the future and move toward
it.
- Indulge in regular child’s play
- Restore rest periods during the day
- Create balance:
- Do you feel at choice in your life,
or do you choose to live by I can't…, I have to…,
and I should…?
- Schedule a weekly time
by yourself to plan
the coming week based
on what you
choose.
- Identify the key
relationships (roles)
in your life. What
activities do you
choose for
the coming
week to
nurture each
of these relationships?
- Begin your weekly
planning by considering
the activities
you choose to care
for your physical,
spiritual, mental,
and social
well-being. Caring
first for yourself
helps you to
be more
available to
serve in each
of your
chosen roles
without
anger and resentment.
- Remember that
every time you
say "yes" to someone or
something, you are saying "no" to
someone or something
else.
- Cultivate contentment. Ask yourself:
- Will this activity enhance my life?
- Will this purchase add meaning and fulfillment to my
life one month from
now? One year from now
- Will this relationship move
me toward or away from what I want to
be and do in my
life?
- Create your own meditations for women
- Sleep!
- Read
- Order dinner in
- Enjoy a massage, have a sauna
- Get your hair done, have a facial, pedicure or manicure
- Shop/window shop
- Open yourself up to someone you trust
- Watch your favourite soap
- Go out with someone special
- Journal
- Listen to a relaxation CD
- Walk
- Listen to music
- Exercise
- Do some yoga
- Indulge in a craft project
- Sit quietly and daydream
- Have a warm bath by candlelight
- Go to a flower show/go round a garden centre
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Go to a fav café, have a tea/coffee and read a
paper
- Write a letter
- Visit an art exhibit/museum
- See a film
- Have dinner by yourself with a book and a glass of wine
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