Self-Care Tips, Summer, & Wellness

Wellness and self-care are necessary for reducing stress, for improving sleep, and for improving social connections. Yet, dedicating less time to self-care and for wellness can cause too much stress and burn-out. It is recommended to change your self-care activities with the seasons and to focus on what you need for overall wellness. For example, you might want to change an unhealthy habit and replace it with self-care activities. Also, seek professional help if you cannot quit your unhealthy habits. 

Often during summer vacation, it can be difficult to find time for self-care. Yet, doing self-care in the summer can take one minute or one hour to do. Other times, doing the same self-care routines can make you feel boredom or feel less relaxed. However, changing your self-care routines during the seasons especially during the summer months can help you reduce your stress. Also, always checking emails, text messages, social media posts, and work chat groups can make you feel too stressed out especially when you are on summer vacation.

Taking a break from social media and work group chats can make you enjoy your summer vacation. In the morning, go tech-free for thirty minutes. Use those thirty minutes for doing a self-care activity. Do something you want to do such as an activity for your mental, physical, emotional, or social health. These activities can vary and might not work for everyone that wants to practice self-care for relaxation. Nonetheless, select an activity for your mental self-care, emotional self-care, physical self-care, and social self-care.

Listen to your mind and body. Select two or three self-care activities for one hour or for thirty minutes for each activity. If you are doing self-care activities with your partner, select activities you both want to do together. After doing self-care activities, practice gratitude and feel inner joy. Here is a list of self-care activities for your emotional wellness, physical, mental, and social wellness. 

1. Play a musical instrument for thirty minutes or listen to instrumental music that you like.
2. Watch the night sky and use your senses as you observe the night sky.
3. Draw the night sky or record the night sky views to draw what you see. 
4. Stay hydrated and drink cold iced drinks slowly as you practice mindfulness. 
5. Play dominoes and stack the dominoes in a row as you focus on the dominoes. 
6. Paint wooden sticks and make a handmade popsicle basket with the wooden sticks for your desk.
7. Make a handmade gift for yourself. 
8. Hum as you dance or hum as you do declutter in your room. 
9. Apply lip balm, lip gloss, or your lipstick slowly as you read positive affirmations. 
10. Meditate with natural lighting outside or practice mindfulness while cleaning your home.
11. Draw shapes or paint shapes. 
12. Do toe exercises, arm exercises, and squats. 
13. Walk backwards, walk quickly, walk slowly, and walk side to side in your room. 
14. Sit on an outdoor porch swing and read books with summer themes. 
15. Swim in the swimming pool or practice leg and arm movements inside the swimming pool. 

The summer season is a busy time and sometimes one might need more physical self-care, emotional self-care, and mental self-care. Also, one might be more aware of one’s social aspect and might want to do social self-care. You can do social self-care by finding activities to help you connect with your friends and spend time with them throughout your summer vacation. Set reminders to practice social self-care by doing yoga with a group of friends, painting party with iced tea, or another fun activity your friends can enjoy. Additionally, you can do emotional self-care activities or mental self-care with mindfulness, meditation, or journaling with friends.

To begin with several self-care activities for your physical, emotional, mental, and social health, you can make a self-care summer list. Decide when to do the self-care activities with your friends and if you want to do those activities by yourself. As well as taking care of your body during the summer with a skin care routine as you practice self-care. Keep in mind that your list might change the next day or in the next week of vacation. Do not worry about your self-care list changes throughout your summer vacation. 

No matter what type of self-care activity you select for the summer, make sure you are in a ventilated room that feels comfortable and that you do not feel too exhausted doing the activities. Practice self-awareness and body awareness before you do a self-care activity. Listen to your body and you might want to change your self-care activity for a slower energizing pace and for developing skills. If you feel sleepy, you might want to do a mini spa day to help prepare for your sleep and for your skincare routine. Take a shower with natural lighting or meditate in bed with natural lighting in your room to avoid indoor heat. 

Make sure your room temperature is not uncomfortable for you. Wear your comfortable clothes and comfortable shoes to practice self-care. Practice self-care in the morning and at night during your summer vacation. Also, practice self-care after your summer vacation with your partner and by yourself. Here are resources with more self-care tips. 

 

16 Easy Summer Self-Care Ideas to Help You Rest and Recharge:

16 Easy Summer Self-Care Ideas to Help You Rest and Recharge

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