Journaling Means Something Different to Everyone
When you look up the benefits of journaling, you will find a different collection of benefits on just about every blog post and the website you read. This is because it can mean something different for everyone. Some people journal because they want to find clarity. Others journal for manifesting or because they enjoy writing about their day. Here are some ways to figure out what journaling means to you. What is your reason for journaling? Narrow down your reasons for journaling to just one thing for now. What is the biggest reason you want to write in a journal? Don’t worry about what that reason is, even if it…
Isolation is the Perfect Time for Journaling
As people spend more time in isolation or while quarantined, it’s the ideal time to self-reflect with things like a journal. Journaling might have been something you always thought of doing but never had the time or motivation. Why not take advantage and start your journal right now? You Have More Time to Yourself When you are in isolation or having to spend more time at home, you probably have more time to yourself. Maybe you work outside the home, so during this time, you find that you have more space to fill up with other things. Even if you don’t live alone, you probably have periods of time at…
How Stress Sabotages Your Immune System
Many people believe that stress only affects your mental health. Since it’s a mental state, it surely must only change your other mental states. However, that’s not true. As we’ve known for years now, your mental health and physical health are closely tied to one another. Stress, Impact on Blood Cells, and the Immune System Changes in mental health can affect physical health directly. Stress can have a significant impact on your physical health, particularly when it comes to your immune system. Stress comes with a lot of adverse physical effects, and it can even contribute to compromising your immune system. One of the worst effects that it has is…
Focus on Your Mental and Physical Health When You’re Home
Whether you are quarantined and on self-isolation or just spending more time at home, you need to focus on both your mental and physical health. They are both vital to keeping your sanity and focusing on general wellness. Give Yourself a Break During this time, try not to stress about being perfect and doing everything right. Nobody can “win” at being home and being productive. Whether you are spending more time at home because of an illness, virus, or other reason for your isolation, putting too many expectations on yourself is going to make your stress and panic worse. This will severely affect your mental health and your ability to…
Socialize Even When You’re Alone
It can be hard enough dealing with self-isolation where you aren’t able to connect physically with other people, but if you are living alone, it is even harder. However, it is still possible to socialize and connect with others, even while practicing social distancing. Share Stories of What You’re Going Through While it can feel like you are alone and completely isolated from the world, you are only physically isolated. Everyone is in this together, and there are so many ways to connect with others. When you are still able to socialize from a distance, it allows you to share stores and experiences. Everyone you talk to will be in…
5 Tips for Managing Stress While Self-Isolating
It’s already difficult to deal with all the unknown going on in the world right now. It’s somewhat challenging to be in the house with your family for extended periods. But if you have to self-isolate in your home? It may seem impossible! When you are spending a lot of time at home alone, whether self-isolating or because you are ill, it can be really easy to get stressed out. Right now, the pandemic around the world is creating enough stress on its own, but it gets worse when you have to be quarantined alone. If you are experiencing signs of stress like constant worry and panic, problems sleeping, unusual…
How to Journal in Just 5 Minutes a Day
Journaling is a wonderful practice that provides endless benefits, improving nearly every part of your life. While it may seem like we all have so much time on our hands with everyone staying at home, for many of us, life has gotten busier. Homeschooling children, still doing your job (if you have one), making meals at home — all take up a lot of time. But if you find it tedious or that you just don’t have the time to journal, why not dedicate just 5 minutes a day to it? Everyone has at least 5-10 minutes they can find in a day to write a few things down, then…
For Better Productivity, Theme Your Week
Looking for tips to help boost your productivity? When setting up a daily routine, there are a lot of tips you can follow to maximize productivity. One of the most popular tips right now is to theme your week. A fairly recent productivity tip, themed weeks are proving to be really effective. So, what does it mean to theme your week and how can you do it for maximum productivity? What Does a Themed Week Mean? Themed weeks are a fairly new concept, but they are proving to be really effective. You basically give each day of the week a theme. You’ll then focus on tasks which match the theme…
How to Use Meditation to Relieve and Decrease Loneliness
Loneliness is a symptom of modern life and our current “stay at home” situation. As people have to stay home and miss all of the regular social activities, there’s less ability to stay connected with friends and loved ones in real life. That can lead to emotional exhaustion and burnout. If you’re finding the nature of our current lives makes you feel isolated and lonely, consider adding meditation to your self-care. Meditation is beneficial in reducing feelings of loneliness, even if you only have short periods of time for practice. How Meditation Can Help Meditation is grounded in keeping you in the present and detaching from troubling thoughts and feelings.…
The Connection between Stress and Depression
Depression can be related to a lot of different mental health disorders, from anxiety to PTSD, but it also has a link with stress. Both conditions can significantly impact the presence and/or severity of the other condition. With all of the upheaval in our lives and the “social distancing” and financial uncertainty, more people may find themselves dealing with mental health issues. Here are some important things to know about this link between stress and depression. Stress and Depression Are Related You should understand that stress and depression are very closely related. The reason they are linked is that both can cause an overactive response in your brain and body’s…
