Healthy routines

How do we keep on our road to our highest good? I believe healthy rituals and lifestyle practices will certainly contribute to such. What are your daily practices that keep you centered? Weekly, monthly practices? What healthy lifestyle practices have you integrated into your life?

Healthy routines and rituals are great to practice to uplift your spirit and keep you centered. What brief activities can you participate in everyday that will set you up for a productive day?

Here are some things you can incorporate into your daily life:
• Breathe
Simply taking a moment to focus on your breathe does not take up much time and can help you take a break before pushing forward.
• Mantras/Affirmations
Simply write a short affirmation and/or pick one that you know will help you throughout the day. Affirmations and mantras are short positive phrases and/or statements. You know yourself best so choose one that will work for you in that moment.
• Physical activity
If you can’t take time to go to the gym, do some yoga or slip in a walk during lunch and/or on the way or leaving work, be sure to stretch in the morning and throughout the day, and/or take some time to dance it out when you arrive in the evening from work, you can have a dance party with your kids
• Journaling
Reflecting on the day, helps people let go of the day and decide on new goals for what is to come. If you do not have much of a commute to work to write a journal entry, how about a moment before you go to bed?

The most important first step is to make a commitment. Decide what practice is best for you and go for it. Do not over commit; just pick one or two things you can do every day. Once you establish your routine and integrate it into your life, you can update your daily practice. Apart of practicing a healthy routine is knowing when you need to update your practice so you can move to a higher level. For example, I mediate daily. In order for me to practice non attachment, I change the way I mediate every month. I spend a month on mantras, sometimes on breathing, other times with sound, so on and so forth. If you get overly attached to the usual routine it might not be beneficial any longer.