7 simple wellness tips to enjoy your life better

“Wellness is the compete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.”

– Greg Anderson

A healthy sense of wellbeing is one of the most important but equally frequently ignored staples for a well-balanced fulfilling life. The health & wellness tips that you would find here don’t just cover physical health, but mental and emotional health too, including the quality of our relationships.

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• Improving wellness at home.
• Wellness tips while at work.
• 7 wellness tips and facts.
• About becoming healthier.

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How can I improve my wellness at home

We spend a big chunk of our life at home. And so, it’s logical to set it up to add to your wellbeing. Here are a few wellness tips that will help you maximize the benefits of your time spent at home on your health and overall wellbeing.

1. Indoor air

You might think, “No one smokes in my house and my home is well-ventilated. What’s there to worry about my indoor air quality.” Apparently, lots. Did you know even usual things like disinfectants, aerosol sprays, nail polish, cleaning products, and even building materials give out harmful irritants?

These harmful chemicals called VOCs (volatile organic compounds) can cause many health issues like dizziness, headache, bad quality sleep, breathing issues, and even serious illnesses.

The cheapest way to reduce these toxins and create a healthier environment to promote wellness is having home plants. There are easy-to-care plant varieties that can survive through quite a bit of neglect and keep purifying your home.

Bill Wolverton, The NASA scientist who performed a study showing how indoor plants can detoxify home air , suggests golden pathos as the easiest and best option. You can buy it at any nursery, keep it in your home, and water it may be a couple times a week.

2. Small pockets of free time

Being at home doesn’t always mean having loads of free time, especially not if you are a caregiver or parent. But, it’s possible to amp up your wellness even in the short pockets of free time you get between spinning to complete chores and crashing down on the couch exhausted.

Healthy habits like healthy snacking, not skipping meals, walking as much as possible, preferring to use the stairs whenever possible, or doing simple daily stretches make it easier to improve wellness whether at home or anywhere else.

There are simple 2-3 minute modulated breathing routines that can help you feel relaxed and even bring major health benefits like anxiety management, lung detox, and headache relief. Spread these sessions throughout the day to get major benefits.

3. Mind your mind

Taking care to relax our mind is a big part of any wellness routine. Take mini breaks every hour or so. Close your eyes and visualize somewhere calm and peaceful involving all your senses. What can you feel, smell, touch with your feet, hear? You’ll see how refreshing it feels over time.

Do a brain detox every night or weekend. Keep a brain dump diary to write down every thought going on in your head, whether important or not. It will help stop those rushing thoughts and a million things going on in your mind, bringing your focus back to priorities.

It’s important to do something for stress relief every day. Because when we keep ignoring every day stressors as a normal fixture of modern lifestyle, it can add up over time to get you feeling overwhelmed and burnt-out.

Some fun wellness tips for stress relief would be doing something that you don’t normally do. Like jumping in the puddle, making a snow angel, watching birds or stars, taking a bubble bath with rubber duckies…anything that brings a smile to your face!

4. Wellness tips for the body

Our lifestyle, the food we eat, products we use, even medicines that we take occasionally add or leave back unwanted chemical residues in our body. When we let these toxins build up, they start affecting our overall feeling of wellbeing.

Though I wouldn’t advise a full-on overhaul without professional medical advice, it’s okay to go in for gentle body detox techniques. Like, drinking about 8 glasses of water a day, having home-made detox drinks, or relaxing with a hot apple cider vinegar foot soak if not expressly advised otherwise by your doctor.

Lifestyle changes like choosing to be more active by using the stairs instead of an elevator can make you sweat, which also flushes toxins from your body naturally.

5. Little things count

Simple things like being mindful of your posture while sitting, standing, working or any other time, can help you get a healthier lifestyle. Bad posture causes a lot of health problems including neck pain, migraine, digestive issues, to every discomfort related with a bad back.

Check whether you are slouching throughout the day. Take short breaks and do simple stretches if you spend most of your work-from-home time at the desk. There’s a very simple exercise to open-up rounded shoulders and improve posture.

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Stand in the doorway, grab the doorway on either side with both your hands. Your arms should make an L-shape with elbows at the same height as your shoulders. Lean with one leg forward until you feel a slight stretch. Hold for 5 seconds and repeat with the other leg. Do 5 reps each.

I can personally vouch for posture playing a major role in maintaining healthier lifestyle because I’ve wasted a lot of days dealing with frequent migraines triggered by rounded shoulders in the past.

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Wellness tips for the workplace

Wellness advice for work isn’t much different than at home, because the focus is on maintaining a healthier lifestyle by being mindful of what you eat, posture, taking mini breaks to refresh the mind, and choosing more active options.

1. Take mini breaks, even if it means closing your eyes for 2 minutes, focusing on your breathing, and relaxing every hour or so.
2. Take care of your hydration and carry a bottle of infused water to sip throughout the day for easy detox.
3. Mind your posture and do simple sitting stretches whenever possible.
4. Use lunch breaks to connect with nature even if it means adding a small plant to your desk. Green, especially nature, uplifts mood.
5. Maintain a journal to log in your thoughts, ideas, and important tasks to keep your brain free to think creatively.
6. And, one of the most advised wellness tips – make stress relief at the end of the day a standard part of your daily routine.

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Wellness tips and facts to enjoy your life better

“It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.”

– Steve Maraboli

1. Your attitude towards problems

Tip:

Our thoughts affect how we feel. Ever felt physically sick with worry? When your thoughts stay stuck in what is or can go wrong, it sends you down an emotional spiral.

A better option would be to take it as noted, keeping your focus on what you have, and finding solutions. The good thing about problems is that they always have a solution whether we can see it right now or not.

Let’s say, you’ve an important appointment but something unexpected pops up which means you might be late for it. What do you do?

Do you go, “this is not good…this is not good…why does this always happen with me?”

Or, do you say “Okay, it’s not good but it happened. Let’s see what are my options.”

The first option makes you anxious, may be even angry. You feel physically unwell and go, “I can’t think…this is too much”. Not very constructive use of energy, is it? Plus, you get the added disadvantage of unnecessary emotional pain.

But the second option gears you up to think creatively by turning the problem into a challenge. You are ready to find solutions, choose the most effective one, and give your best to make it work as best as it can.

You feel all charged up, alive. Having got the best of a tricky situation makes you feel, adding to your value of self-worth & confidence.

Fact:

A research by scientists at Stanford University found people’s beliefs and their health were connected to a surprising extent. Even how we feel about ageing has a connection with how our health pans out. These are just a few examples, but I feel are strong enough to show the connection between your outlook and how you physically and emotionally feel.

2. Take care of your body

Tip:

When you’re scampering to keep all the balls in the air and everything working smoothly, it’s no wonder you aren’t left with enough time or energy to take care of yourself. And the most common results are a slouched posture, waking up tired, hurried meals, unhealthy snacking, spotty exercise routine…feel free to add to the list 😉

Take care of the very thing that’s helping you to make everything else possible!

Give your body the attention it deserves.  It’s difficult to focus on your mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing dealing with physical pain and discomfort. Little things will take you a long way even if you don’t have time for lengthy routines.

If you’ve only a few hours to sleep, make it count. Do everything you can to get quality sleep. Drink warm water first thing in the morning because it gently wakes up your internal organs.

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”

– Francois La Rochefoucauld

Include enough probiotics and fiber in your diet. Eat vegetable, fruits, and don’t overcook meat. Make healthy food choices like having fresh or dry fruits for snacks. Tweak your routine to make it more physically active if you don’t have time to fit in a regular exercise routine. These are just a few wellness tips to make you feel good physically.

Fact:

Research showed a 44% increase in weight loss with drinking water 30 minutes before meals. A vegetable and fruits-rich diet will lower you risk of type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and more. According to many studies, refined carbs can cause metabolic diseases.

3. Be mindful

Wellness tip:

Being mindful about anything means focusing all your attention on that task, making aware choices, and experiencing its every aspect rather than just going through the motions.

Be mindful of

• what, how much & what kind of information you expose yourself to.
• The kind of people & emotions you surround yourself with. Do they add value to your life and help you feel good or grow?
• Your own thoughts. Do you have a healthy value of self-worth? Do your beliefs push you to play small?

Making mindfulness a part of your personality can help you manage stress better, reduce anxiety, better manage your emotions, and even enjoy improved physical health.

Fact:

Studies have shown mindfulness can help manage stress better by lowering stress hormone cortisol levels. It can also nurture and improve the quality of our relationships by improving our ability to listen, communicate, and empathize.

4. Relationships

Tip:

Healthy & fulfilling relationships have care, respect, and compassionate boundaries. All this combines in different proportion to create the various kinds of love we feel for our loved ones, whether friends or family. The quality of our relationships has a direct impact on our feeling of wellbeing.

Be clear about ‘why’ you have that relationship and how much you are willing to stand, even if that extreme situation may not arise ever. Because when you keep dragging a heavily lopsided relationship, it loses its actual value and simply turns into a tough-to-break habit.

And like all bad habits, they don’t do any good to your feeling of wellbeing – whether mental, emotional, or physical.

Fact:

According to research the quality of our relationships and it’s connection to how long we live is similar to other risk factors that can cause death.

5. One of the most effective wellness tips – Be your best friend

Tip:

Whether you do it already or not, remember that putting yourself first isn’t selfish. Compassion, kindness, regard for others is good. But extend that to yourself too so that there’s a good balance.

Your duties and responsibilities are important, but so are your dreams and aspirations. Because when you sush down your needs, you gradually turn bitter towards the things you ‘have to’ do. You get the feeling of a life not lived, scattered away being responsible for others.

Even if it’s a simple thing like taking a leisurely walk in the park and enjoying the fresh air, start doing things that feel good. They show your subconscious mind that you too are important and so make decisions that take you too into consideration.

You feel alive, energetic, and happy when you do things that fulfill your unspoken needs. Work on the inner voice holding you back asking you to play small or chipping away at your confidence.

Fact:

Self-compassion can help you recover more quickly from heartbreaks by helping you be better able to cope with suffering, failures, or feelings of being inadequate. Research shows that it makes you more resilient.

6. Explore

Wellness tip:

Explore not just new places around you or as far as you can travel, but new areas of interest too. Learn something new, something different that would never have been your first choice.

When you learn something new, it triggers creative thinking in other areas of your life too. You would be able to find out hidden sides of your personality & talent. Plus, it keeps your brain functioning at a high level by exercising it and so slows down dementia more effectively.

Learning a new skill will boost your self-confidence, value of self-worth, and satisfaction. And so, it obviously is good for your psychological wellbeing.

Explore new places, cultures, lifestyles, and people. It’ll make you look at your problems in a very different light, either highlighting their insignificance in your life or showing a way to make it all work.

Fact:

Even the excitement of starting something new adds to your wellbeing. According to a 2010 study, the anticipation of a vacation boosts happiness considerably.

7. Gratitude

Tip:

Make a 5-point gratefulness list every day or every week, whichever feels comfortable to you. What do you appreciate in your life at this moment? Is it the presence of someone in your life that you usually take for granted? Is it something that’s normal for you, but which you’ve known others struggle for?

What this does is, it brings your focus back to the good in your life. It makes you appreciate the little things adding to your happiness that you might otherwise miss in the daily rush of life. You start looking, experiencing and not just seeing life swoosh past you in your hurry to reach life goals.

Gratitude helps your mental and emotional wellbeing by taking your focus away from the negatives in life, boosting your morale and letting you be open to satisfaction & happiness with whatever you achieve when you have given your best.

Fact:

Gratitude makes us focus on what we did get and do have in life. And research has shown that you can live a happier & longer life when you are more focused on positive feelings and emotions.

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How can I become more healthy – wisdom behind wellness tips

Mind –

“The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve.”

– Charles F. Glassman

Body –

“What most people don’t realize is that food is not just calories: It’s information. It actually contains messages that communicate to every cell in the body.”

– Dr. Mark Hayman

Soul –

“Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of wellbeing.”

– Greg Anderson

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Improving our sense of wellbeing is all about holistic healing of our

• body inside and out
• attitude, thoughts, beliefs, and mindset
• emotions and relationships.

Awareness and intention are the first steps towards any change, including a healthier lifestyle. Now, that you are aware of the facts and wellness tips related to different areas of wellbeing, all that’s needed is your conviction in their importance in your life.

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Which wellness tip here did you find most helpful? Talk with you over in the comments below 😊

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