How to integrate mindfulness into your life?

The modern world has left us with the conception that we must be hyper-productive in order to consider ourselves capable and in tune with environmental demands.

However, rest is also an essential part of good health and even good productivity.

It is complex to uproot the belief that if we are resting we are lazy, or we are wasting time and this makes us feel guilty.

Rest is an activity that helps us in many ways to our well-being, so we must train ourselves to take guilt-free breaks that revitalize our body.

Healthy self-care habits

Self-care is those activities that we do by and for ourselves, sometimes popular beliefs have made us believe that investing a lot of time in ourselves is selfish.

However, nothing could be further from the truth, as human beings we need to feel well-being so that this translates into health in our lives.

Following a healthy self-care routine only benefits our body, that is why it is important to consider those activities with which we feel full and dedicate a few minutes a day or a week to carry them out.

There is a difference in healthy resting habits and what is popularly known as "being lazy" when you are investing time in your health you are not being lazy, on the contrary you are feeding your spirit.

Feel free to carry out activities just for yourself, reaffirm your beliefs and specify with yourself and your goals in these moments of active rest.

Mindfulness is a great tool that consists of staying in the present moment no matter what activity you are doing, doing these activities considerably reduces stress levels and will make you feel at peace with yourself and your environment.

How to say NO! Without feeling selfish?

The feeling of guilt originates in early childhood, at this stage our parents reprimanded our behavior, which generated this feeling of guilt used to modify these behaviors.

This establishes a yearning around external approval, which is nice, so when we put our desires above the expectations of the demos we feel selfish.

As this external approval desired by parents grows, it also becomes desired by friends or the surrounding environment, we do our best to be good and not have these feelings of guilt and selfishness.

However, this behavior is based on the complacency of the expectations of others, which comes into play when these expectations contradict our wishes.

So to get rid of those feelings of guilt and selfishness that arise from not pleasing others we must keep in mind how we aspire to live.

If we want our internal beliefs to guide our behaviors, we have to put them before the expectations of those around us.

Saying is not healthy, and although it is not pleasing the other, the reward of putting our health first is substantially greater than the beliefs that come from the outside.

Free your mind from the heaviness of pleasing them all, connect with yourself, indulge yourself, take care of yourself and prioritize your health.

Activities you can do as part of your daily routine

As we mentioned before, mindfulness is a practice full of benefits that will help you establish healthy rest and self-care routines in your life, here are some alternatives:

1. Take a walk

On many occasions we take for granted the environment that surrounds us, and we lose the qualities and beauties around us, this practice invites you to carefully observe the environment that surrounds you, feel immersed in it, you can take a walk around your block and discover the fantastic features that it hides.

2. Check your body

This activity proposes to do a body scan, to realize how our body is, if something hurts, or if we need to eat or adjust our posture.

3. Take a step back

We are constantly surrounded by our thoughts, but in this activity we invite you to really see them, as if you were a spectator, this exercise will help you to identify that some of those negative thoughts do not really correspond to who you are.

4. Be present

This proposal involves stopping our activity for a moment to truly find ourselves in the present and taking three breaths.

5. Breathe

Take a moment to breathe consciously, this will calm your mind.

6. Accept your thoughts emotions

We invite you to accept those thoughts and emotions that come to your mind suddenly, they are part of you, welcome them, give yourself the opportunity to feel them and elaborate them.

Working on our well-being detached from the expectations of others is an opportunity to live life more fully, implement these self-care activities and give yourself the opportunity to strengthen your health and your spirit.