5 Ways to Actually Enjoy Self Care Activities Again
Self-care activities can sometimes feel like a chore. This five step guide reimagines them and makes them enjoyable again.
Even self-care activities can become boring, overwhelming, and unrealistic to keep up with.
That’s when they lose their objective: enjoying them.
The rise in aesthetic routines sometimes cause us to lose the plot, because we mostly see them as the only form of self-care.
People now use a tool ( the romanticizing and aesthetic parts) meant as motivation to exaggerate very simple day-to-day things that we can call self-care.
However, self-care is simple, and it is time to adopt it. Knowing this is the first way to enjoy self-care activities.
Your Self Care Activities Reset
Caring for yourself shouldn’t be stagnant; it’s fluid. The key to avoiding getting tired of the routines that bring you peace or calm you down is to be open to a bit of disruption: new additions, explorations, and romanticizing simplicity.
Here are seven ways to put this into practice, whether you are exploring self-care activities for adults or self-care activities for students.
1. Switch Up Your Routine
Constructing your routine as a part of self-care is very good, but the con is the unhealthy attachments that can be formed to them.
Doing the same thing over and over again will eventually feel very draining, like the saying, “Routine causes depression.”
If self care activities overwhelm you, try switching up your routine ( this looks like doing the last thing first or vice versa) or try an entirely new routine.
As we grow and change, so do our needs. What the version of you now sees as care may not suit the version of you one year ago. This doesn’t equate to being inconsistent; it just shows the journey of evolving
2. Embracing Simple Self Care as enough
If no one told you before, here it is: simple self-care looks like showering, eating, sleeping, laughing, dancing, getting ready, and those long hours you spend on the phone with your loved ones. These moments count even if they aren’t aesthetic, don’t require expenses, or are planned out.
In Fact, they are arguably the best forms of self-care because they are natural. Embracing this means seeing them as enough, and this takes you out of feeling like you aren’t doing enough self-care or from being overwhelmed by what you think self-care looks like.
3. Let it Not Work Sometimes
You don’t have to feel better every time you practice a self-care , that turns it into feeling a chore quickly.
Sometimes, just let it be imperfect; let it flop. The goal of a self-care activity is not to fix yourself but to care for yourself, which goes into the next point.
4. Remove the Pressure of ‘Self Care’
Feeling overwhelmed by self-care activities occurs mostly because you now see it as a checklist or need to do something to feel okay. Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just to live. This means no routine, be honest and messy.
This helps you get out of that tiredness, because it reminds you that you are in control, not the routine, so it becomes something you want to do and do not have to do!
5. It’s Not Yours
Another reason you may feel overwhelmed by self-care activities or not enjoy them again, is that they are not yours. The best self-care activities are the ones that are made specifically for you by you. That is all that matters.
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Did you know practicing self care actually helps your body as much your mind. You can explore this more in Nervous System Regulation: What to Know + 7 Daily Exercises
