Maintaining your happy, strong and relaxed self. Here are 10 tips to embrace self compassion and choose rest as an essential. You deserve it.
Maintenance means stopping. Maintenance is not constantly working, constantly doing - most of the time, pausing is the best thing for us. Prioritising rest and recovery is essential to not only your mental well being, but keeping your body physically strong. What happens if you don’t? You reverse all your hard work.
These days, it is a tendency to overwork and constantly be productive. However, it is counterintuitive. It’s important to take brakes to prevent burnout and maintain long term productivity. Physically, it helps with muscle repair, reducing inflammation and boosting the immune system. We all want to see a version of you that is strong, un-stressed, thinking with clarity and feeling happy.
Here are 10 things you can do to pause and take a breather
Deep breathing exercises (in the morning)
Short walks in nature
Stretching to release muscle tension
Listening to your favourite music
Meditating
Reading a book - shift your focus outside of work
A power nap which really helps with restoring that energy
Hydration - get those cups in!
Eating healthy snacks - highly nutritional, protein packed
Meet a loved one. Go connect with someone you haven’t in a while.
How about the beautiful synergy between rest and massage therapy? You can boost this rest with massage therapy too - it will amplify all effects! Many clients recommend using the tips above alongside their therapy sessions.
To conclude, prioritising rest and covery is the best thing you can choose for a future you. I encourage you to view rest as an essential, not a luxury. It’s about maintaining and sustaining your current and future strength, health and happiness.
After reading this, try something you haven’t done in a while, in the list above. Then see how just pausing produces powerful results.
