Wish Someone Well
Practicing compassion for others tends to make you feel better, too. Choose someone: a friend, family member, co-worker, or even a stranger. In your mind, send them wishes to be happy and healthy and live with ease. This quick exercise can make you more satisfied with your own life.
Stress and Anxiety
🍎 Health Hack ~ A Healthier You in 2020
CONNECT! CONNECT! CONNECT!
Feel like old friends (or family) have fallen by the wayside? It’s good for your health to reconnect with them. Research suggests people with strong social ties live longer than those who don’t.
In fact, a lack of social bonds can damage your health as much as alcohol abuse and smoking, and even more than obesity and lack of exercise, a 2010 study in the journal PLoS Medicine suggests.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ New Years Resolution – Relax
Set aside time to relax. Once you have accepted that there are negative stressors impacting your life, it’s important to make room for relaxation amid all of the other things in your life. Find a method of scheduling relaxation that works for you.[3]
Block out times in your day to relax. Think of it as an appointment with your most important client that you absolutely cannot skip or break. Write it on your calendar or set a reminder on your phone. Â Â Source
🍎 Health Hack ~ A New Years’ Goal – Quality Sleep
Improve Your Sleep Hygiene.
Sleep hygiene? Yes, it’s an important practice in our increasingly connected world. To get a good night’s sleep, cut screen use (phone, TV, laptop) in bed, limit naps, and establish a relaxing nighttime routine.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ I Can’t To . . .
Change Your Thought Patterns, Change Your Life
Here’s a great way to alter your thought patterns the next time you feel the heaviness of obligation taking hold when you are about to engage in any health behavior: Change your “I have to” statement to an “I get to” sentence. Complete this sentence: “I get to _________ (health behavior), which allows me to __________ (something you want to do or be). Simply by changing your thoughts, you will undoubtedly start to feel better about getting moving and doing something positive for yourself.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Becoming Resilient
Develop a more positive attitude. Being positive makes you see all of the good things in your life that you may be missing out on because you’re focusing on the negative things. It will also make you more open to more opportunities and possibilities because you’ll be looking at life with a “can do” attitude.[1]
- It’s true. Being more positive will not only make it easier for you to deal with challenges, but it will help you embrace new ones.
- If you catch yourself complaining or whining, try countering your negative comment with two positive ones.
- Though you shouldn’t feel like you’re faking it when you’re acting positive while feeling sad on the inside, you should know that the more you fake it, the more you’ll slowly begin to see the brighter side of life.
- One way to be more optimistic is to surround yourself with happier people who make you appreciate life more.
🍎 Health Hack ~ A New Year’s Resolution: Good Health
Make Health Your Resolution
Find ways to boost your health, fitness, and well-being, and be an inspiration to others!
- Make healthy food choices. Grab a healthy snack on the go. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
- Be active. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Park farther away and walk.
- Protect yourself from injury and disease. Put on a helmet, sunscreen, or insect repellent. Wash your hands for 20 seconds.
- Manage stress. Don’t overschedule or overcommit. Take short breaks throughout the day.
- Make an appointment for a check-up, vaccination, or screening.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Open Your Eyes
Let a good fact become a good experience. Often we go through life and some good thing happens—a little thing, like we checked off an item on our To Do list, we survived another day at work, the flowers are blooming, and so forth. Hey, this is an opportunity to feel good. Don’t leave money lying on the table: Recognize that this is an opportunity to let yourself truly feel good.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Create a Supportive Team
Gravitate to Positivity
Surround yourself with positive people. Doing so provides you an encouraging, emotionally healthy environment in which to invest in yourself. “Don’t be afraid to ask for help or support,” says Chicago-based Nike NTC master trainer and run coach Emily Hutchins.
🍎 Health Hack ~ Chill Out
Chill Out and Capture the Z’s
According to Johns Hopkins sleep expert Rachel Salas, M.D., when it’s time to sleep, it’s time to chill – literally. Knocking the thermostat down to 68 degrees or lower before you tuck into bed can help you sleep better. Darken your room by drawing the curtains or dimming the display on your alarm clock to really get those quality Zs.
