How To Genuinely Take Care Of Yourself

We need more advice like this.

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With unique solutions like conscious breathing and forest bathing being introduced, the growth of self-care continues to be burgeoning in the public consciousness.

It’s easy to see why, as studies point out how people have gradually been moving away from organized religion to embracing spirituality. Part of that practice isn’t a matter of going to a church but practicing one of those things or meditating, doing yoga, or merely connecting to our inner selves.

And this desire to do that can be sped up by big companies like Windows, Meta, Amazon, and Intel laying off people left and right.

For a lot of people, these layoffs are a source of great stress, and self-care provides a convenient solution to deal with the fact that you’ve survived a mass layoff or that you no longer have a job.

At the core of it, self-care and spiritual practices are a means of personal wellness. The only issue is that as businesses drive us to rely on these, many businesses and the self-help industry have worked to commodify those too.

It’s resulted in self-care advice that is bland and not all that helpful. A type of self-care that focuses on our most pressing wants and needs immediately over the long-term benefits.