The last year has, for obvious reasons, had us all considering a different flow of life, one that has demanded a great deal of change in how we go about things. Yet it’s also made us more reliant and able to work with alternatives, and if we focus on that, then even coming back to normality can be aided and guided by a few techniques and tips we’ve learned.
For this reason, it’s important to consider – just how much self-care can we practice at home? Do we really need to go and visit a range of services in order to groom ourselves, to fill our wardrobe with fitting clothes, or to keep up on our health? It’s worth asking these questions, because they can not only help your home become a more convenient and nourishing place to live, but if you have to stay home for whatever reason in the future, you know you can do without missing out at all.
Just how much self-care can you practice at home? Let’s discuss that, today:
Home Haircuts & Trimming
It’s true that home haircuts or trimming your hair is more than worthwhile, and it’s something that many people have had to do over the last year. Simply learning how to touch up your split ends and reshape your hairstyle as it grows can help you save at least one of every two hair salon visits you may have gone to, allowing you to save money, or just look good with convenience if you have an important event coming up.
For people who may not be familiar with how to achieve this process, suggesting it can seem quite out of left field. The truth is, however, that you don’t have to look disheveled or out of place just because you’ve touched up your own hair a little. You just need some good visibility with a couple of mirrors, a steady hand, and to only take small actions where necessary. This can help you both look and feel trim, and as sharp as you really are.
Yoga & Stretching
A good way to iron out the kinks of your body is to learn how to properly stretch and even to perform yoga exercises if you wish to. Not only can this help you wake up with something of a relaxed attitude, but it can help your body prepare for the day ahead.
Yoga, on the other hand, can be quite hard work, but it truly is worth it. Through yoga, you can find yourself growing in strength, holding poses that work your flexibility, and it also serves as a fantastic aid to meditation, because the environment you curate when performing yoga (peaceful, with relaxing music) as well as the focus needed can be a tremendous aid to helping you feel calm, collected, strong, and focused. It really does work.
Exercise
We can all do with getting a little more exercise and the good news is that you don’t need to purchase a gym subscription to do that. Sure, they may have access to equipment you can use if you’re hoping to train at a certain sport or if you wish to lift weights, but overall, exercise at home is more than possible.
From finding a range of bodyweight exercises you can learn the proper form of and complete with care,to simply using a skipping rope, or a kettlebell, or some other home equipment you can use to exercise how you’d like to in order to get your heart pumping, exercise can be a great means in which to feel more confident and take care of your body.
Whether in person or virtual, we would recommend allocating a space in your home you can use to regularly exercise, even if that just means moving a sofa over, or perhaps emptying a little space in a storage room to fit a spin bike.
Mental Acuity Training
Of course, training our bodies is one thing, but training our minds is also beneficial. For this reason, it’s important to consider mental acuity training and what that means.
Now, there’s no need to get too advanced or feel like an astronaut training for re-entry when deciding to keep yourself sharp between the ears. Attending to the morning crossword in the local paper or online, or reading a few chapters of a book, or simply keeping up on some long read broadsheet articles can be tremendously enlightening.
In this way, mental acuity training not only feels enjoyable, but it helps you become a sharp, educated, informed person. If that’s not self-care through a systematic and curios approach, it’s hard to know what else is.
Catering Your Online Habits & Media Consumption
One amazing benefit that we’ve all appreciated over the last year (especially over the last year) is having 24/7 access to the internet and the devices we use to access it. It has helped people work from home, and remain entertained, and order the products they need to live well without having to use alternate measures for all of those practical efforts.
That said, it’s also true that harsh news, online vitriol, and negative content can make its way into our lives if we’re not careful to meter it out. For this reason, self-care can be best aided when we focus on protecting ourselves against that, and in curating our media and online habits to cleanse our ‘mental diet.’
This might involve only subscribing to informative, healthy content sources. It might mean listening to inspirational content rather than that which leads to argument or intensive debate. It may mean getting off Twitter unless you have something to promote. In this way, you’ll be able to practice self-care by disciplining your online use. That’s a very real and worthwhile consideration for anyone to learn in 2021.
With this advice, we hope you can practice all the self-care you’d hope to at home, catering to your image, your exercise, and mental maintenance needs, your conveniences, and your online habits.
