By asking for help when needed, we can give ourselves time to breathe and avoid falling into a pattern of self neglect. For it is often when we neglect ourselves that we start feeling deprived- of companionship, time, peace, love, attention, energy, and much more.
In the end, the objective of setting goals and working on healthy habits is NOT to change ourselves or “fix” ourselves. It is simply to remove the obstacles that stand in our way of reaching our true potential and fulfil our dreams.
Finding a routine which helps you to work with your body’s natural rhythm and not against becomes important. It helps add stability to our lives and makes us feel more balanced and secure.
Our language reflects our thoughts and our thoughts and words shape our future experiences. Grateful people use words like gifts, blessed, fortunate and blessings whereas less grateful people are more inclined towards words like burdens, deprivation and complaints. However, it is possible to shift our mindset and incline it towards positive emotions and move from self-critical talk to one that is supportive and nourishing.
When you treat yourself with respect and even love, you will find that you have a sense of peace of being truly present to your own life. You will treat yourself the way you treat your children or loved ones- with love, kindness and respect.
As we all prepare to resume some kind of “normalcy” post these two months of lockdown, our future is fuzzier than ever. All we really know for sure is that many things will have changed when we reopen, some forever.
More often than not we fail to realise we have given our power and in turn our happiness to people and circumstances which lie outside of us. This holds true for all aspects of our lives including our health issues
Our instinct of saying yes when we really wanted to say no to a request or a task can often leave us resentful, frustrated and burnt out in the long run. What usually ends up happening in our busy, modern world as a result of this is that we are often overcommitted and overscheduled.
Many of us have an aversion towards asking for help. Usually, we end up doing this only we when are in desperate need for it.