30 Days of Self Care: Day Twenty-Five

 30 Days of Self Care:  Day Twenty-Five

Practical Self Care

If you are a parent, your children will be looking to you to see how you are handling things during tough times. Whether there is conversation about it or not, they watch and emulate what you do and say. This is yet another reason why it is so important to take care of ourselves. In uncertain times, they will be looking to you to guide them. Your actions and your mindset matter. It is perfectly okay to practice self care while your kids are present. It's great to model and teach them that they need to make taking care of themselves a priority, too. In doing so, you will find their behaviors improve and be more calm in the process. Be intentional with the time you are spending with your family and enjoy them. You won't always have opportunities to spend quality time with them as perhaps you are doing so right now. Get a daily dose of ecotherapy by getting out of your house every day. I love grabbing a chair and sitting in the sunshine. Each person will have their own set of unique ways to include practical self care into their daily. Your other family members with have theirs, as well. Listen to your inner voice and allow yourself to enjoy the small things in life, for it is the small things that truly become the big things. Cherish them.

Remember:  We must serve ourselves first in order to go out and better serve the world.  Cherish the time you have now with your family and choose to spend it as quality time.  Find ways of self care that are unique to your individuality.

DAY TWENTY-FIVE:  PRACTICAL SELF CARE

It's so easy to fall into talking about worldly problems. These are things that we cannot control. It is better to give the big stuff over to God immediately and release it from your hands. Of course, if there is something you can do to help, if the Lord calls you to act, then move! Right now more than ever, we need to be speaking words of encouragement and wisdom to others. Be gentle and mild in spirit when dealing with one another. Pulpit Commentary shares: "Speech from such a source refreshes and vivifies all who come under its influence, like the wholesome fruit of a prolific tree."

Be the right dose of medicine to someone else today. Lift others up with your words. Draw light to the dark situation. Invite the Holy Spirit into each conversation. Bring Hope when it seems like things are failing. Encourage prayer. Release your grip and let the Holy Spirit take your place.

BIBLICAL VERSES FOR PRACTICAL SELF CARE:

• "Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God. For apart from Him, who can eat and who can find enjoyment?"--Ecclesiastes 2:24-25
• "So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile. Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment."--Ecclesiastes 11:8-9
• "Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”--Hebrews 13:5
• "A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit."--Proverbs 15:4

ACTION STEPS

Here are a few ways we can cover our practical self care today: 

• Indulge in a nice rich piece of dark chocolate.
• Re-organize your towels and linens, making them tidy and neat. Next, your dresser drawers.
• Buy a whole new line of makeup and throw out your old ones, if they are ready to be tossed.
• Grab your favorite water bottle and load up on water with lemon and cucumber slices.
• Try a float! Sensory deprivation tanks are a great way to experience complete relaxation.
• Make dinner reservations at your favorite restaurant or take it home for a to go order.
• Try InstaCart or DoorDash for a new experience of indulging yourself.
• Get your feet in the sand at a local beach or lake shore.
• Have fun with nail art or put a streak of non-permanent color in your hair.
• Plan out an extravagant vacation, even if you never go on it. Half the fun is planning it!

KIMALA'S  VIDEO ON THE BENEFITS OF FLOATING :

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Your practical self care routine is as unique to you as you are to this world.  Remind yourself that there is much pleasure in letting go through total relaxation.  Whether it be a piece of dark chocolate, putting your feet in the sand or planning out your next vacation, do something that brings you a wonderful sense of pleasure.  

Have a blessed day, Kimala

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