Longevity

Self Care for Longevity Guidelines

There is no hard and fast rule to determine what your self-care regime might include, but I will offer a few simple guidelines that apply to both Yin and Yang self-care. 

1) If it doesn't fuel you or nourish you, it isn't self-care. 

2) Self-care means you do it for yourself. While we sometimes need to ask for help in our lives, self-care should be empowering and something you can do for yourself with as little reliance elsewhere as possible (except of course for things like body work or health treatments where you put yourself in someone's care for a time). 

3) Self-care is something you look forward to. If you don't enjoy it or otherwise get a deep benefit, it won't fuel or nourish you. 

4) Self-care results in health and vitality. Self-care does not mean going out and eating a 3-layer cake or getting bombed. Never use self-care to justify bad habits or behaviour that hurts you or anyone else. 

5) Self-care is necessary to your well-being. Take it seriously. Did you catch that last one? Self-care is necessary to your well-being. Take it seriously. This is your life, and if you are a responsible, awake individual (or at the very least, want to become one) self-care is part of your work to make sure you are firing on all cylinders