Which of us did not decide for ourselves once: “From Monday (after vacation, from the New Year, etc. D.) I start a new life!”Any reasonable person wants health, happiness and harmony, but not everyone manages to live so that all this is achieved. Someone is hindered by the lack of willpower, someone has complex life circumstances, and someone is simply afraid of change. Yes, not everyone will manage to change their lives immediately and dramatically, but you can master several small useful habits that imperceptibly and without much effort on your part will help to achieve great results. A large house is built of small bricks, and we bring to your attention a list of small, but useful habits.
Healthy habits for physical health
Start every morning with a glass of water on an empty stomach. Too often our body suffers from dehydration. Too rarely, we remember the benefits of simple water, replace it with tea, coffee, juices, and this is all wrong. Just let your kitchen table always have a large empty glass – he will “remind you” about the need to drink water when you get up in the morning. On an empty stomach water will also help you in the removal of toxins and stimulate the work of the intestines.
Parrating your car away from the office, or get out of public transport for one stop earlier. This is a good way to at least slightly reduce the risks of sitting work. Just walking a few hundred meters can be more useful than frantically trying to “make up” the unexplored distances on the treadmill in the hall.
Eat raw vegetables and fruits with each meal. Fresh cucumbers, salad leaves, melon or watermelon, berries – all this must be supplemented by your breakfast, lunch and dinner and dinner.
Get up and stretch through every hour of work at the computer. And even better – not just reaching out, but do several exercises of office gymnastics. Install on a mobile “remark”, which will be a sound signal every hour lift you to a warm -up.
Always carry a small bag of nuts or dried fruits with you. Hunger can find you anywhere, including where there will be no choice of useful food. So that you do not have to eat “garbage for the stomach”, always have something useful for a snack on hand.
Useful habits for the mind
Ask complex questions that cannot be given a simple answer “yes” or “no”. May your questions begin with the words “What do you think …”, “What would you do if …”, “How would you advise you to do …”. From each detailed answer, especially if a person shares his experience, you can draw a lot of useful and interesting for yourself. Do not refuse to listen to the opinion of others. Even if you disagree with him, the need to object to your brain to train.
Place in the field of your vision for creativity, for needlework. Paints, crayons, burning apparatus, knife for artistic carving. When you have nothing to do, you can try yourself in creativity, practice imagination and at the same time calm your nerves.
Spend at least a few minutes a day just sitting in silence. No, this is not meditation. You will not need to take some special pose, somehow specially prepare for this. You don’t even need to close your eyes. You can think about anything, but at the same time you just need to sit in silence, in a convenient pose, breathe evenly and not move.
Every day before bedtime, write down on paper everything that bothers you. Do not try to do it beautifully, do not edit and do not adjust. This is not a novel, and not an essay. Just splash your thoughts-empodies on paper. Studies have shown that this helps reduce anxiety, avoid depression. And if you often experience difficulties with falling asleep, this will help you free your brain and easier to fall asleep.
In moments when you experience a state of stress, reach the “boiling point”, feel despair or anger, mentally repeat your personal, soothing mantra. Come up with it for yourself, but it must reassure you, help to arrange priorities correctly. Here are some examples: “everything goes away, and it will pass”, “everything that does not kill us makes us stronger”, “there were problems and worse”, “we will solve issues as they arrive”, “I am not alone/not alone “And t. p.