How Taking Control Of Your Life Will Improve Your Overall Health Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. There are no affiliate links included in this post. All thoughts are my own and no other. This post is now in the guidelines of the FTC. How Taking Control Of Your Life Will Improve Your Overall Health Being selfish is not a bad thing. It can help you practice self-compassion, self-love, self-care, self-esteem, self-respect, and self-management. Selfishness will help you appreciate yourself, better yourself, and focus on yourself. This self-compassion will eventually turn into naturally being a compassionate, loving, caring person.  Once you start practicing new habits and rituals, they soon become a fluid part of your daily routine. After a few weeks of having a new daily habit, it feels like a new and natural part of your life. A strongly motivated self helps enhance your practices and betters your energy for them.  Image by silviarita from Pixabay  Be in control of your own life You are in control of your path and you are the only person who can be the architect of your life. Think of it this way, if you have a solo project and it is you, and only you, who can take it on its journey from start to finish, you are the architect of that project. You are the only person single-handedly who can determine its results.  Think of your journey to living beautifully the same way. You can choose to take care of yourself. It is you who chooses whether or not you want to improve your habits, better you as a person, and practice new habits to live a healthier and happier life. Allowing yourself to be the architect is the first step. Understanding it is you who has the power to change your life is key. It is you who needs to put into practice daily rituals to successfully sustain and better life. Simple strategies like sleep, exercise, meditation, food, hydration, “me moments” and digital free time are great ways to bring out your inner happiness and to focus on what your Body needs, and transform your state of mind. Transforming your mind will quickly put you in the right mindset to transform whatever you wish. Whether you want to improve your body, your food habits, your work, or your self-care routine, putting your mind in the right place and incorporating these steps into your everyday life will help with that.  When you feel better, you will learn to live more. You will understand that feeling excelled in your health, motivation, kindness, self-care, and daily practices will help you live a better version of yourself. Remodeling yourself isn’t necessarily changing you as a person. Instead, it is allowing yourself to invest in your well-being, nourishment, movement, and self-love. Listen to your needs By listening to your body and nurturing your inner life you are giving yourself the energy to thrive. This thriving energy can be used to build and sustain a healthier lifestyle by encouraging you to choose better daily habits and rituals. A healthier lifestyle can lead to delaying symptoms of aging, lower stress levels, and more of a reason to be kind to yourself first, as well as others.  Everything from nutrition to food plays a vital part in your mental health. Your mind and your body are inseparably one and inserting intention into your movement, food, sleep, self-care, habitual, self-love, and ritual choices will better your mind and your body all at once. For example, a healthier mindset will choose food full of goodness and nutrition over food full of bad food choices, which will make your body feel better. You should meal plan and ensure you are getting enough essential daily nutrients. Oatmeal is a great food for this. There are probably many oatmeal nutrition facts that you do not know about. For example, they are packed full of three essential macronutrients – healthy fats, carbohydrates, and protein. Many assume oatmeal is mainly carbs, but it does offer a healthy balance of nutrition.  Taking care of your mind and your body will improve your stress levels, help reduce everyday worries, and will soon feel natural for you to choose the better things in life. Creating these habits helps them become routine. Movement matters As well as your mental state, it is also essential to take good care of your physical state. Although appearance isn’t everything, it does contribute to how we feel. Feeling like you look good helps with confidence, motivation and contributes to a healthier mindset. Looking after your body comes from looking after your gut.  Investing time into your hydration is key for your mind and your gut. Flushing away toxins with plenty of water throughout the day will keep your internal organs hydrated. Dehydration leads to high cortisol levels which makes your body feel stressed. If you find it difficult to drink water because of a lack of taste, trying adding fruits or herbs into your water can improve the taste as well as health benefits. A few slices of lemon in your water can increase detoxification and alkalinity which will help your gut feel better and help you feel more energized. A healthy gut is good for energy levels.  A healthier gut helps build a strong immune system which helps fight off illnesses. Luckily there are numerous ways to improve your immune system from getting enough sleep to having a healthy diet. The beautiful lifestyle choices you can make will help your body to heal, your immune system to strengthen, and your mind to stay on track. Wellness is about consistency. Invest your time in these practices, they are ingredients and actions which lead to ultimate happiness.  Self-care is any necessary human regulatory function that is under individual control, deliberate and self-initiated. It is the practice of taking action to preserve or improve one’s health. Again, reiterating it is you who has full control of your wellbeing and happiness.  A self-care practice that allows you to turn a hobby into a habit and learn how to attain control is morning movement. If you add yoga, meditation, or movement into your morning routine you can set your intention for the day. Setting your intention will set the tone for the day and give you something to focus on. Whether that intention is happiness, productivity, or gratitude, setting it first thing in the morning allows you to add focus and control to what you can achieve.  Disclosure: This is not a sponsored post. There are no affiliate links included in this post. All thoughts are my own and no other. 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