Fun Holidays - International Self-Care Day

International Self-Care Day is celebrated around the world on July 24th every year. International Self-Care Day is an unofficial holiday that was created so that people began to pay more attention to their health and mental state. Daily stress, conflicts, tension and stress have a negative impact on the body, which needs constant care and restoration. The appearance of International Self-Care Day in the calendar of unofficial international holidays occurred in 2011 thanks to the International Self-Help Foundation, which became its founder. According to the initiators, the main key to the prosperity of a person as an individual is self-preservation. The new holiday allows us to demonstrate the importance of self-care and remind us that we should not forget about it, even if the pace of life is quite high. It should be understood that you need to take care not only of your physical condition, since mental balance also plays an important role. To achieve better results, you should pay attention to areas such as emotional, motivational, cognitive and volitional. Each person must be responsible for their own well-being, which is very difficult to achieve, especially for people from dysfunctional families, where caring is often called selfishness, and the fulfillment of personal desires is called self-indulgence. Often, the ban on self-care leads to the fact that doing the simplest things for your own well-being turns into a difficult task. Celebrating this unofficial holiday involves performing activities that make people aware of the importance of self-help in their own lives. To take care of your mental health, it is recommended to do the following: • give up self-accusations that provoke self-hatred; • devote time to your favorite activities; • establish personal boundaries with others, both in the team and in the family; • choose for yourself an environment where you feel support and acceptance of personal interests; • formation of your own system values ​​based on personal desires and needs; • concentration on one’s emotions and their full acceptance. Often, for many, self-care is just about paying attention to the body. Of course, you can’t forget about skin care, healthy food and other important things, but strengthening your well-being requires a wider range of factors. While at the workplace, you need to ensure that the body is not overloaded. In order to cope with this task, you need to calm down and take a break from the routine, or mobilize your strength to achieve results. After working at the computer for a long time, it is useful to use techniques to switch attention, which have a beneficial effect on the emotional state and normalize breathing, allowing you to enrich the blood vessels with oxygen and improve performance.