Self-care isn't selfish, it's necessary `February 17, 2022`
***What's up everyone!*** *By the way, I wasn't able to upload an article yesterday night when I planned to because when I went in the place where I can have a signal unfortunately the signal weren't good. Ending was, this article that supposedly be published last night wasn't published. Hayyyssstttt, anyways I just published it today morning and will published another one tonight if there's a signal.* By the way, for this blog I'm going to share about self-care? ***Now, what is self- care?*** For me, **self-care** is all about how we cared ourselves in all instances through physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. So, if we were caring ourselves in any way we can, then are we selfish? Well, in my opinion were not because as what my title is, self-care isn't selfish, it's necessary. It's really not about selfishness and it's not only about considering our needs but rather self-care is about knowing what we need to do in order to take care of ourselves. By taking good care of ourselves, we then able to take good care of others as well. That is why it is really important that we should take good care of our body, mind, heart and soul for us to also be able to helped ourselves reduced those negative feelings we've had like anxiety, depressions and a lot more. With that being said, we cannot spread the negativity to other because we do self-care instead we were spreading positivities to them and that is one of it's benefit to others and not just in ourselves. **Self-care** is about how we knew the proper way of living like how to eat properly, to exercise regularly, how we able to reduce stress, to know when is the right time to paused in everything and do some unwinding or relaxation. Those mentions are just one of the touchstones of self-care and we knew all that is mentioned are all helpful for us. It may brought us to be healthy, to not be burnt out of stressed and also to be resilient. With all that aspects we've had that made us felt good because of self-care for sure we can able to cope up in any difficulties we may encounter in our journey in life. However, it is also relevant for us to know or be aware that not all things that feels us good is self-care. Because there are also such ways we humans can do to eased those challenging emotions we've felt and that's the unhealthy mechanisms like taking drugs, alcohols, over-eating, and those things that are risk taking. All this self-destructive activities we thought is the best remedy to faced those challenging emotions but the truth is this kind way were just temporary and not a long- term effect for us on self-care. Of course we always wanted the good long-term effect. This is really the difference of doing unhealthy mechanisms and self-care. Because self-care it's for a long-term effect on us since it builds in our inner faith the resiliency, the bravery, the ways on how we can definitely defeat those challenging moments that may come in our lives. We can also able to know how we can radiates those stressors into a positive way it can be for us to have a healthy mind and heart. Therefore, it's truly necessary that we do self-care in a right way and not just to do it in a temporary way by getting involved in those unhealthy mechanisms. Now, we able to do self-care in different aspects like in.... Physical self-care This is to be physically healthy. But how to be healthy? Others said that I'm healthy but I knew in myself I'm not because being healthy can't be seen only if your thin, skinny or fat. It's all about how we live our life in the physically fit aspect. The regular exercise, the right eating, proper sleep, and the amount we water we take everyday. But in my case, I'm sure I somehow to have physical care because I tend to do the unhealthy mechanism like the over-eating. When I'm stressed out I always do over-eating to just minimized the feeling but I know it wasn't right at all because at the end of the day stressed is there as always. That is why it's way is just temporary. Emotional care How to be emotionally healthy? Well for me, just ignore the bad vibes and the negativities but if it reall doesn't want to be ignored and we engaged on it then we should always know on how to cope up with it. By sharing it or talking it to a family, a partner, a friend so that you will somehow felt the better feeling of expressing the hardship you'd carry for yourself all along. They always said, how was your heart? Of course, it somehow affect us emotionally too. Heartbreak as well can affect our emotions but of course as I've said we should know how to deal with it. Social self-care This is how our relationship towards others. To maintain it's self-care we should know to to deal with different people with different attitudes knowing their individualities but of course it's always start within ourselves. We should know first on what are our social entities or needs them we will know how to maintain our good relationship to others. Lastly.. Mental self-care This is our way on how to dealt with our mind. To have self-care mentally one of it's practices to maintain a sharp mind is to answer some logic statements, doing some puzzle games and even playing some tricky and mind blowing games. This way we can able to have a genius mind. (Lol) So, that was it. My view on self-care and again **SELF-CARE isn't selfish, it's necessary.** Do you agree? ***"For my sponsors and those who upvoted my articles. I would like to say my deepest gratitude and happiness for you all since you always keep me inspired and motivated. Thank you so much. More blessings to all of us here. Love you all :) -*** @Janz
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27 comments
I agree sis, self care isn't a way of selfishness as we also need to take care of ourselves, we also need to love and care ourselves the way we wanted to be care and loved as nobody can do that to us.
Definitely sis, because we can't care others fully if we don't know how to do it within ourselves.
Taking care of ourselves will never be an act of selfishness. It means we care for ourselves because we love ourselves. They can't stop us from doing that, it's our body and we are the ones responsible for its growth and development.
Wow, very well said dear. hehehehe Grabe ang hugot talaga, totoo it's only us that is responsible for our body.
Self care is really important talaga ate. Para sa atong self then sa life especially sa atong health. Gi prioritize gayud na nako te. Mao na atong main investment sa tanan.
truth our health is our main investment, kay what if were so hardworking but we failed to looked into our health or just neglect it then how can we able to do more hard work if our health were already at risks.
A big true ate that's why we should always prioritize our health.
Tumpak
Health is wealth ate. ❤️
Agree gyud ko sa imong post.
Thank you
True madam. Self-care is showing love to yourself. We also need to care of our selves for this is only our asset in everything. We cannot do whatever we want if we are weak. We cannot make good decisions if we are not mentally healthy. So, it is vital to also prioritize and take good care of ourselves.
Exactly madam. It depends on us that is why we should not made ourselves be left behind. First and foremost, we cannot as well take good care with others if we can't do it in ourselves.
Personal care should be our first priority because our life matters too. Specially physical and mental care.
Yeahhh, our life really matters if we don't do self-care and we can even be harmful to others as well.
Agree madam, self care is important, it should always comes first hehez👌
Truth madam.
True. We should not be only focusing on physical self care but self care in all aspects.
Yeahh because we just focused on one aspect for sure were incomplete.
Indeed, the best thing we can do for ourselves is to take good care of ourselves. That's a way of loving every inch of our being. <3
Yeah because for us to love someone deeply we should start by loving ourselves first.
Some of us find it hard to do things to ourselves cause a lot of people will see us as being selfish even if we gave them 900$ out of 1000$, they will still call us stingy for not giving them the remaining 100$
Exactly. And that's actually one of the sad reality. We did everything for them but we seldom received their thanks. Something like that.
Yes to self-care and self-love ❤
pak laban, dapat jud na fyang
Bahala sila bsta unhon jod nato ato kaugalingon kay wanay laing kita sa kalibutan. Pero lisod jod gihapon lge signal. Asa diay mo pujo ms. Janz
mao jud wanay kita ug mawa ta, da man mi Mahaplag mao naay signal pero weekdays naa ko TO trabaho mode pud