Why Self Care Is So Important. 45 Simple Self-Care Practices for a Healthy Mind, Body & Soul. “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”
~Brian Andreas Do you ever forget to take care of yourself? I know. You’re busy, and finding the time to take proper care of yourself can be hard. But if you don’t, it won’t be long before you’re battered from exhaustion and operating in a mental fog where it’s hard to care about anything or anyone. I should know. A few years ago, I had a corporate job in London, working a regular sixty-hour week. But I had no life. I rarely took care of myself, and I was always focused on goals, achievements, and meeting the excessive expectations I had of myself. So I made an unusual choice. I began to take care of myself better, scheduling in time alone, for exercise and for fun.
I got to know myself better and know what I needed—not just to function, but to flourish. But guess what? At the end of last year, I spent Christmas alone in bed, completely exhausted. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. Curriculum/resources/nt-search-inside-yourself-TEXT-VIDEO at master · dev-academy-programme/curriculum. How Mindfulness Can Improve Productivity and Work Life Balance. @ Graham Allcott // One Comment Getting Things Done and the Mindful Productivity Ninja This is characteristic 7 of the 9 characteristics of becoming a Productivity Ninja….
Our minds are our most important tool. Being emotionally intelligent and self-aware are important for so many reasons, not least because they equip you to take action. For instance, a lot of the things that make up the Ninja mindset, such as remaining calm, being ruthless and pushing the boundaries by being unorthodox, aren’t easy. Listening to the ‘lizard brain’ & our own resistance Our brains have evolved a lot since we were monkeys, but one thing has hardly changed: the lizard brain. Steven Pressfield’s book The War of Art is a revealing and personal account of his battles as a writer against what he calls ‘the resistance’. This sounds easy but it’s not – mainly because they’re often so quiet that you don’t even realise they need silencing at all. Emotions, Meditation & Productivity Listening to others. Headspace. The Power of Meditation and How It Affects Our Brains.
Ever since my dad tried to convince me to meditate when I was about 12, I’ve been fairly skeptical of this practice.
It always seemed to be so vague and hard to understand that I just decided it wasn’t for me. More recently, I’ve actually found how simple (not easy, but simple) meditation can be and what huge benefit it can have for my day to day happiness. As an adult, I first started my meditation practice with just two minute per day. Two minutes! I got that idea from Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits blog, where he points out how starting with a tiny habit is the first step to consistently achieving it. Whether you’re as skeptical as I used to be, or you’re well ahead of me with a meditation habit of several hours, I think it’s always interesting to find out how new habits affect our brains. What is meditation?
There are different ways to meditate, and since it’s such a personal practice there are probably more than any of us know about. What happens in your brain when you meditate Less stress.