Your Wellness Treasure Chest

Let’s get started on creating our own wellness. I have called it a treasure chest because quite simply natural good health is our biggest asset and we should treasure it.

Your body, Your energy, Your health

Let’s take greater control over our own lives and health, mind, body, emotions and spirit. After all it is ours and we know ourselves best. Most probably a good place to state that if you are feeling unwell and have concerns it is always a good idea to check with your GP. Self care runs alongside conventional medical care.

What’s in my wellness treasure chest?

Maybe best if I share what I put in my virtual treasure chest to get the ball rolling. Let’s start with conventional stuff. I know that sometimes I get low on magnesium, my body lets me know this through a certain lack of positivity and drive, so when this happens I take an Epsom Salt foot bath for 20 mins. I know you can get body sprays and tablets but I think I read that absorption through the skin is most effective and I love anything to do with water so foot soaks it is for me, cheap and easy.

In the winter months I take a good quality Vitamin D supplement as there isn’t a great deal of sun for us to make our own. Also I will take a tonic if I have a cold or feel run down, a couple of days of that and I feel like Tigger again.

Also in my treasure chest is sea swimming, seeing the sunrise, sunset, moon rise and walking in the woods. These things really lift my spirits and I try to do as often as possible. These things calm me and inspire me. I am happy to get an early start for a sunrise and often I am gifted a wonderful sunset when I am giving afternoon or evening reflexology treatments. A treat for me as I help others with their wellbeing!

This is my first year of swimming each week throughout the year but I am hooked. The cold is now feeling delicious rather than a horribly challenging. I miss it if I can’t get in the sea once or twice a week. I think the cold makes me focus on my body which effectively takes me out of my head. It is almost a reset each time.

Other things in the treasure chest include dancing to old fav disco tracks when I need to shake myself into a more buzzing energy and dance old energy off me, singing loud in the car where no one can hear me and taking time out to sit quietly in my garden when I need time to gather my thoughts.

What’s in your treasure chest?

Each of us is unique and have a set of activities, foods, drinks, places and other things that can assist our wellness. What are some of yours? Maybe spend a little time thinking about what lifts your spirits, what do you do or where do you like to go to feel good?

Do you like to chat with friends, walk, cycle, bake, meditate, get your hair done, have a massage, sing, make something? Do you have supplements that you take when you feel you need them or foods that boost your energy?

Spend a little time setting up your virtual wellness treasure chest, you are the best person to do this for yourself as no one else knows you as well as you do.

When should I go to my Wellness Treasure Chest?

I try to keep on top of my wellness so I dip into mine regularly so I can offer my best as a therapist. Sometimes though things happen, we read something that upsets us, challenges come our way, relationships get tested and these are the times we really need to dive into the chest and choose what is going to help get us through.

Good luck setting your treasure chest up, it will feel good to take more control and know you can support yourself in a range of ways.

Love

June x