Tree of Healthier Habits - Daily Mindful Actions to Improve Your Well-being
Increasing a Healthier Version of Yourself with little Effort.
Just like the trees on our planet, daily trees give us so many benefits year round without skipping a beat. Many studies have proven that daily **trees give us:
- A boosted immune system
- Stress reduction when we spend time around them,
- Stress reduction when we look at them long enough,
- A possible lowered blood pressure and
- An improved positive mood and
- Increases our wellness towards a better well-being for a healthier life.
By the same token, we can also benefit from the following habits and increase our energy more. As a friendly reminder, when life gets so busy, or from overscheduling our days, we often forget to take care of our necessary daily needs.
To help be a better version of ourselves, let’s take care of our “*Tree of Health & Wellness,” aka (*our mind, body and spirit). With the following daily proactive activities you will receive the same benefits as **mentioned above that trees give to us:
Practicing these daily health habits can help increase your health and wellness, your energy, immune system, and more importantly, your mental well-being and possibly your joy and happiness. Here are just a few important ones:
Sharing and Recognizing Gratitude
- Gratitude helps you to appreciate what you have, rather than what you lack, and increases your positivity and satisfaction mindset! Showing gratitude is a good thing.
For example: Every morning you wake up, write down at least 2 to 3 things of gratitude and then read them at night. In the morning, repeating this method over time will increase your positive mood with an efficient amount of sleep.
When there are days you don’t feel or not in a good mood, try re-thinking to yourself and take a pause, and then you focus on the good thing(s) or matter(s) and your mind should increase positively. NOTE: This practice can be done several times throughout the day as needed for some people to feel the change. Keep practicing.
- Water, Stay hydrated - By drinking plenty of water or naturally healthy beverages; coconut water, or aloe juice (try one with less sugar or no sugar added) throughout the day, especially during winter months. Water helps to flush out toxins and keep your immune system strong.
- Sleep I - Get enough sleep every night, ideally 7 to 9 hours for adults and ranging from 8 to 11 hours for children under 8 to reach their full developmental potentials. Efficient amounts of sleep needs vary from your age and stage in life.
- Sleep II Challenge: - Try giving yourself an extra ½ hour of sleep for approximately 7-10 days mindfully discipline this and you know if your body and mind feels better. Sleep helps your body and mind to recharge and recover, and boosts your immune system, mood and energy levels to make better discussions.
- Smile - 🤗…a little more often, even if you don't feel like it. It has been proven, smiling triggers the release of endorphins, which are hormones that make you feel good! To help boost your endorphins, you might want to add a little unconditional kindness...read on;
- Kindness - Practice unconditional acts of kindness is good for you and the person who receives it!
- Tissues - Avoid the spread of germs - Please turn your head away from others when you cough or sneeze, if you don’t have a tissue. This kind act shows consideration and courtesy to those around you without spreading germs that can lead to sickness; such as colds and or flu. Moreover, the more people get sick will slow down both the working and educational economy and their related systems which you might not have concerned thinking about. This affects families and friends. Friendly reminder, after using the tissue, when possible, immediately take care of your hands...
