Day 43 Making Time for Self-Care
Reflecting on how our time aligns with our self-care priorities
We are in the final week of our Lenten study of Sacred Self-Care! This week is all about extending our heightened self-care focus over the past six weeks into our daily lives. Today, we begin this by taking a look at how our time reflects our self-care priorities. What did you notice when you did this? How did you put self-care on your schedule today? What strategies and resources can you utilize to incorporate self-care into your daily routines?
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One of my goals for the year is to soothe my overactive nervous system. I've realized that doing so requires me to have more spaciousness in my daily life. I have to take on fewer deadlines and projects (I'm getting good at making no my default response). I still tend to put too much pressure on myself to get going in the morning. So this week, I've been intentional about slowing down and giving myself all the time I need for self-care. I'm getting more comfortable with leaving work tasks undone in order to give myself the time I need for exercising, meditating, napping, and making healthy meals.
What has been very grounding is to allow for silence, reflections, prayer “Care of Soul” to start my day and “Care of Self” to end my day with physical stretching, walking, or dancing (to move my body because of a sedentary type of day).
When heavy emotional or spiritual distractions interfere the flow of the day, I tend to pause, breathe and do a quick body scan. It is my way of seeing where my body is holding the heaviness of the distractions.
Doing this Lenten Study now has been teaching me how to continue to be intentional in pacing and self-care, to avoid getting back into “exhaustion land.”