It could be physically, mentally or in some cases spiritually
Pay-it-forward to yourself.
Put out the clothes for tomorrow-you in the evening. Vacuum the living room as a favor for dead-tired-10-oclock-you.
It even works on much longer time scales: Lift weights so old-you don’t break a hip and miss taking the grandchildren to the zoo.
Forgive your past self. Respect your future self. Live in the present.
Shower
Read for 30 minutes before sleep. Not just articles, but a real, paper-bound book. Helps with sleep, learning, and reading comprehension in the future.
And write down every word you don’t know.
I have an anki card deck of all those words and I’ve greatly expanded my vocab doing that for 1 minute every morning while I have coffee.
Stand on one leg whilst brushing your teeth
Exercise. A little every day will make a huge difference.
Seconding exercise. Even if it’s something small like taking stairs on your commute instead of the escalator. It ultimately adds up to so much over any period of time.
Go for a walk, longer is better but even 20 minutes will help.
Eat fermented foods and plenty of fiber to keep your gut micro biome happy. There’s increasing evidence that your gut health impacts your mental health.
Create a sleep schedule and stick to it religiously. Drink more water.
Sing to yourself. You can have a much wider vocal range with just a little bit of practice. It doesn’t have to be anything challenging, even a simple “row row row your boat” is already a nice exercise.
Personally I find it very soothing and it helps me focus when I’m doing something on my own. Plus I love how my voice can sound when I put in a little effort :)I sing to my dog when I get his food ready. I’m almost certain he
thinks I’m a weirdoappreciates itBoth can be true at the same time :)
Learn how parentheses work.
They look matched to me… I think it’s a programmer typing habit (maybe).
That’s not the issue here; try rereading the sentence as if the section in parentheses didn’t exist
Meditate even if for only 5 minutes
Make your bed each morning. Your bedroom will look more organized and you will have a nice bed to lie down in at night.
Also less chance of spiders when you go to bed
Well there’s something I wasn’t concerned about before…
Oh yeah, I’ve had a few brown recluses crawling around in mine.
Gonna have to disagree here. Messy beds are healthier because they get to air and so cool down and dry out. This is good because bacteria, fungi and dust mites like it warm and damp, and they can cause illness, asthma and allergies.
While eating place your utensil down, or the food in your hand like a sandwich, and then chew what’s in your mouth into a smooth paste before swallowing.
This slows down your eating process, correctly prepares the food for maximum absorption by your body, and gives you time to allow the feeling of satiation to develop.
You’ll eat less and naturally lose weight without counting calories.
Respect yourself and accept what achievements you’ve made and struggles you’ve overcome. Everybody is fucking amazing and while you shouldn’t think you’re more important than other people you should acknowledge that your story is unique.
Some kind of sport. It dont have to be competitive/dificult just some exercise. Preferably outside, 150 min per week can make wonders.
Get good sleep. Despite it seeming like a waste of time, sleep is the most important part of our health routine, and here we are cutting out one or two or even three hours a night just to please our bosses, basically meaning our jobs won’t adapt to our own humanity. For our ability to perceive each others’ vocabulary, grasp our feelings, mull over complicated ideas, react to split second surprises in time, and generally be healthy physically, an hour of sleep can spell the difference between having the performance of Alexander the Great and the performance of General Custer, in fact guess which one was infamous for valuing his sleep?
Sleep deprivation is the single most cited factor in why Chernobyl happened, and fate punished us by making sure thirty square kilometers of land will be unusable for ten thousand years. Just think, we’ll be in other solar systems before we can step foot in Chernobyl again, all because some bosses somewhere said “I don’t care about your circadian rhythms, get in here on the dot without error or you’re going to the gulags”. The whole “early to bed early to rise” thing is BS and one should know the guy who said it was quite fond of sleeping in.
