Self-Care: Showing Love For Your Self

In our day to day lives, we often find ourselves being pulled in all directions. Between work, family, friends, and a myriad things pulling us in different directions, we can sometimes feel totally overwhelmed with life. We all need to take time out for self-care to recharge, refresh, and rejuvenate.

Maintaining Mental And Emotional Health

Self-care is important in maintaining our mental and emotional health. Without taking time for ourselves, we eventually become mentally drained and emotionally spent. We can only give so much of ourselves before we run out of ourselves to give. We have to take time for ourselves to recuperate.

Methods Of Self-Care

How do we go about taking care of ourselves? There are many ways.

Self-care can come in the form of creativity. You can show care for yourself through writing, painting, singing, dancing, or any other art you can imagine. Expressing ourselves is a way of caring for our mental and emotional well-being. When you express your thoughts and feelings, it helps you process then in a healthy way. Eventually, our thoughts and feelings will come out, either by our own choice or due to emotional pressure forcing them out. It is much better to control how our feelings come out than for them to explosively surface.

An active social life is another way of caring for yourself. Socializing with others can help you deal with struggles in your life as it allows you to share them with others that you can relate to. It is important to moderate your social life; over-extending your social life can end up generating more stress and bring unneeded drama into your life.

Additionally, hobbies like playing games, collecting things, and traveling are great ways to care for your emotional well-being. Games can help you socialize with others, and keeping a collection can help occupy your mind and distract you from your troubles.

We also care for ourselves through physical care. That can take many forms. It could be physical activity, grooming, and pampering. I nice bubble bath, massage, or pedicure can go a long way in caring for yourself.

Many people equate self-care with self-love. There are many people that condemn it as immoral. Masturbation has been found to be a great stress reliever in addition to helping you relax. However with the feelings that some people have concerning masturbation, it may not be for everyone due to feelings of guilt some people may experience due to their personal beliefs.

Take Some Time For Yourself

The important thing about self-care is to take time for yourself to do things that help you recover mentally and emotionally. Like when on an airplane that the oxygen masks have deployed on, you aren’t any good to help anyone else if you don’t take care of yourself.

Teaser: Next time, we’ll take a listen to one of my favorite musical genres.