This habit is my only (real) New Year’s resolution to take care of my mental health.

This habit is my only goal – to take care of my mental health.

There are many (and necessary) ways take care of your mental health. Because, as we have said on other occasions, we take care of ourselves from the moment we wake up. However, this year I decided ‘keep it simple’ and set one habit as my goal: do everything consciously and not on autopilot. This is one of the recommendations that experts from different fields of well-being have repeated to me most recently: exercise while being healthy. postural awareness and the benefits of it and not sweating for the sake of sweating; eat with relishwithout using mobile phones and monitoring how well what we eat suits us… and above all, do things one at a time, slowly, without looking at the phone and without thinking what to do next. This seems simple, but considering the speed of thinking at which we live and the desire to multitask and be productive, I decided to narrow my list of good intentions to just that. I want to try to stop living on autopilot and pay attention to everything I do – for example, without doing any daily activities, answering emails. This is my only health goal for this year. Because I believe that if I achieve this and learn to live consciously, will improve all aspects of my well-being. And this means, for example, get up without looking at your phone and focus only on the exercises I want to do, or the coffee I’m going to drink to boot, walk without a mobile phone in your pocket or eat without watching TV. All this will affect my well-being in many ways, including the fatigue that I carry from living in alert status (And multitasking).

You can start by implementing this rule

When we think fast and live, tuned to the (incorrect) need to want to achieve everything, It is difficult to fully enter this calm and conscious mode.. So to start practicing this, back to the recommendation from a nutritionist Christina Burrows. “The big mistake we make in this sense is that we don’t stop and work in autopilot mode all day long. This is why I recommend doing microstops 2 minutes at least 10 times a day, be aware of what we are doing and not do two things at the same time. This could be, for example, applying cream and only applying cream (without hearing a sound). podcast at the same time, for example). Or cook dinner without looking at Email in the meantime,” says Burrows, who advises consciously performing these daily gestures that we usually put into practice while multitasking, without meaning or necessity.

Keep things simple (and consciously)

Another alternative to start living differently is see the glass half full or half empty It’s up to us – it tries to simplify everything. This is one of the pillars Kaizen method, which promotes the importance of learning to live simply by focusing on what one can do rather than on what is beyond our control. It is the psychologist Maria Martinez explains in his book Life in Kaizen mode (The editors encourage) that focusing on the present moment and what you are doing in each moment leads to the disappearance of stress. “You only become stressed by thinking about what you can’t do now.. This happens not simply because you think about what you can do, but because you feel that you cannot do it, because if you had absolute confidence – if you felt it – what would you everything will be on time and that you will be able to do whatever you want and there will be no stress,” he explains. And he advises to stop thinking about what you have left to do because “it doesn’t make you go faster, in fact, it makes you stumble more because you’re not focused on what you have at hand now you want.” control the future – which you don’t. It’s up to you—and the release of control over the present is up to you,” he explains.

The importance of doing this in the morning

Although the idea behind this goal is to have long-term, sustainable and realistic habit which allows us to live consciously and do everything from this plane of attention and awareness of the present moment, trainer Amagoya Eizaguirre Above all, he insists on the importance of not starting the day at a fast pace. “I spend the first few hours waking up little by little, making breakfast nice, focusing on the present. I activate all my senses“The smell of coffee, the sounds of calm music, I watch the color of the sky, prepare breakfast and really enjoy the moment without distractions,” the expert tells us. The consequences of this? “I noticed that the day starts like this It helped me focus, my internal dialogue will now begin in a much better mood. I stopped getting up and going on autopilot and became much more mindful. You never know what will happen, but you can control how you start your day and enjoy the first few minutes.. This is how life is seen differently,” he concludes. Let’s do it.