Self-Caring: Ritualizing Your Joy

Something about self-care sometimes can feel too much.

Sometimes it could feel that we don't deserve it.

Sometimes it could feel inconvenient and yet self-care is how you take your power back.

So in what way can you invite more self-care into your life?

In what way can you dance with self-care a little more?

In what way can you allow self-care to have more space in your life?

It does not have to be a lot more space.

We can start small but one thing,

One thing and I mean one thing small like going to the store and buying a piece of fruit that you haven't had in a very long time and you're gonna sit and just enjoy the fruit peacefully because you deserve to or maybe it's buying yourself the thing because you deserve it or because it's going to make you feel supported in a certain way and you just haven't taken the time to go get the thing but also the baths and the teas and the warm nourishing meals,

The medicines that are in the herbs,

The medicines that are in the candles and the essential oils and the epsom salt that you can put in your bath.

Like there's so many ways to work with self-care.

Self-care is also allowing yourself to be supported.

That's self-care although it's someone else helping you in the moment but it's us saying yes to it.

It's us slowing down.

Self-care is also us allowing ourselves to laugh when we haven't laughed in a while to put on something that is going to be full of comedy and humor and also not taking yourself so serious is a form of self-care because we need to switch modes sometimes.

So maybe we've been a little too serious.

Maybe we've been a little too stressed.

Maybe we've been a little too tight.

So where can we invite joy in?

Where can we ritualize joy?

I have a course here on Insight Timer called Ritualize Your Joy and this reminds me of that.

Where can we ritualize our joy?

That too is self-care.

Walking down the streets and where we live and noticing the trees,

The flowers,

That's self-care.

So many ways to practice self-care.

I'm curious how you will practice self-care in a way that can feel new or familiar.

How can you invite more in?

Where do you need to invite more in?

Where have you not been inviting self-care in to?

Let's look at all of that and let's not judge it.

So this is a non-judgmental practice.

Maybe you can write.

I have notes everywhere for instance here.

Manuals.

I have these.

These are my manuals for self-care.

They are diaries and journals and I have many here but where can we put,

Maybe it's your phone,

Someplace where you can put down,

Jot down,

Type what you will do to honor yourself and your self-care practice?

Because self-care is how you take your power back.

It does not have to be all the expensive things.

It does not have to be taking trips,

Although it could.

Although it could and it does.

It's all of these things,

Right?

But my point here is that we can start small with what we have access to right now in this moment.

We may not have in this moment the ability to move a jet plane to the islands in this particular second and moment but what we can do is return to our breath.

We can step outside and get some fresh air.

Go make a warm cup of tea in a matter of minutes.

We can run a bath and if you don't have a bath,

We can stand in the shower,

Put some essential oils in there.

Just all the ways.

Be creative with it.

Have fun.

Be nostalgic even with it.

What are some things that you can bring back in that you used to do that used to bring you joy?

Let's maybe revisit some of those.

Maybe they stopped working.

Maybe they're ready to work again now.

Maybe it's something from your youth that's going to bring you joy again and then maybe there's things that have not been working now that have run their course and maybe it's not that they won't work ever again but in this season,

In this season,

We need to switch it up.

So let's be flexible there and let's have a beautiful self-care practice and a beautiful relationship with self-care.

In Journey and Grace,

If you have not been practicing your self-care,

It happens to all of us.

It happens to all of us.

I have to bring myself sometimes to say,

Okay,

We have to stop putting off the massage.

We have to stop putting off the massage or you cannot type another second while you're writing the second book.

You have to now take a break,

Get up,

Go nourish yourself,

Get some more tea and then come back with a fresh mind.

So it happens to all of us but self-care is how you take your power back.

Let's say it together.

Self-care is how you take your power back.

Let's say I.

Self-care is how I take my power back.

So I am supporting you in your self-care practice.

I'm excited and I'm excited to continue to show up here to support you in all the ways I can here.

Thank you for watching.

Take care and go take care.