Self-care doesn’t require hours of free time. In fact, just 10 minutes or less can help to boost your well-being. Below, experts share their tips for lifting your mood, minimizing anxiety and even enhancing your relationships.
1. “Act your shoe size, not your age.”
This according to Deborah Serani, PsyD, psychologist and author of Living with Depression.
In other words, play for the sake of playing. “Find your funny bone, lose yourself in imaginative moments [or] get your air-guitar on — whatever it is, have some unstructured, unfettered fun,” she said.Psychologist Elisha Goldstein also recently talked about the importance of play in this blog post and offered valuable tips on practicing play.
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Bike riding, swimming at the wave pool, and running/walking my Border Collie dog I could add to the list
Hi,
Really nice blog entry. I am a big fan of recommending exercise (if it’s possible), people just don’t realise how it affects us in such a positive way and can lift the mood for hours afterwards.
The other thing I like to do is to close my eyes and bring to my awareness ’5′ things in my life that I am truly grateful for, no matter how small they may be. Just to give those things my awareness and focus for several minutes, really can lift the spirit.
Sometimes people find it difficult to find 5 things, but they can be literally anything.