I mean II like stress because you're
stress and you start stressing just
because you're stressed and it becomes
this downward spiral of all-encompassing
stress and that's just all you know so
for the past couple of weeks this has
been my reality stressing just the
stress warring just so worried being
confused just to be confused and when I
really took a step back I realized what
I am stressing worrying and confused
about really isn't much like there's not
much that's actually causing these three
things besides myself and the voices in
my head so how I was able to identify
what was going on and how I'm just being
really silly and how to not to be as
silly as I am was that I took some time
over the weekend to really take a step
back hit the reset button to remind
myself of what's important and so this
video is on a reset routine and how you
can do if you've been stressed wearing
or confused just to be stressed worried
and confused this is what you can do and
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I feel like this is something that we
tend to overlook all the time we forget
that our bodies know ourselves best and
that if our body is sending out signals
of you should do this or you should rest
more or you should run harder we show
whatever that we should probably listen
to it so what I did was on Saturday I
slept him I started the morning slow I
made some much I posted on my instagram
stories I posted on Instagram for the
first time and like over a week
ultimately I gave myself time to think
and time to just breathe because at the
end of the day it really liked the
little things really add up to be the
bigger things and if you really think
about it the little things are what
builds a foundation in which the bigger
things can be built upon so if these
little things aren't in place it were
not functioning properly if we're not
feeling our best on a day-to-day basis
it's gonna affect how we do the bigger
thing and that really is self-care in a
nutshell is to take care of yourself
first and foremost so that you can do
all the things you wanted you can help
all the people you want to home and you
can inspire the world to do whatever I
don't know where this come from but okay
advice my dad has given me recently to
spend five minutes to fada to be a shell
bite student the father Shabbats is kind
of like a little idiot and the father is
just to stare blankly to be lost in
thought to daydream basically what this
means to me is take five minutes out of
your day to just empty your thoughts and
do your mind of the incessant worries
incessant stress and all the things that
you have to do and just be a blank slate
and just be a white empty room so that
you can leave yourself potential and
possibilities for thoughts and for ideas
to come into your brain if you think
about it if our mind is constantly
filled with the things are stressed
about that things were worrying about
that things are confused about the
things that we have to do the things
that we've done if our that soul is
filled
24/7 then there's no way new ideas or
thoughts or anything or inspiration can
come in so the idea of this is so that
you can allow more magic to slowly seep
into your brain I think you and I both
know this like we probably all know this
that it's in moments of stillness we're
not really thinking about much or doing
much that some of the most brilliant
ideas pop we're so busy and so occupied
with all the things we need to do and
all the things were worrying about we
forget that yeah to be the most
productive and to be the most creative
we need to have this downtown we need to
allow ourselves to not do something
every once in a while even if it is
prophetic for me I chose to play with
food because I love making things I love
reading health blogs I love reading food
blogs and I love playing around with
super foods this is probably like in
college and probably right after college
graduate in college but just over time
with war with being busy with excuses I
just haven't spent much time in the
kitchen and the most I would make these
days is like steaming vegetables or like
making a smoothie and that's just that's
not fun so this past weekend I took it
upon myself to recreate pastel lattes
and you guys might have seen in
Instagram stories there's definitely a
lot of trial and error but I think
that's the beauty in trying new recipes
and trying new things I made so many
batches of poopy colored lattes versus
like pretty pastel colors but that's the
fun in it right because you learn as you
go and then to turn something I was once
a fragment of your imagination of
fragment it was just something like so
abstracting your mind into something
tangible and something real that's magic
I also made these chocolate energy cacao
balls which were so good I took army
songs superfood ball recipe and I just
added a bunch of other stuff so with
playing I think it really comes down to
having that childlike wonder and having
that childlike curiosity to be curious
and to want to try things that you've
never tried before
for you to want to go back to doing the
things you did when you're younger
so reconnecting what that young yourself
or to reconnect with who you were and
maybe just by growing up and by adulting
we sometimes let go a lot of that play
and that fun and that light heartedness
life was so much simpler back then and
it can still be now but we're the ones
who make you complicate it so have fun
and play more and be like a kid
going off of the previous point to be
curious really is the foundation for
everything else in our lives like for us
to want to do things for us to be
interested in something for us to want
to know more about anything and
everything for us to want to improve we
need to be curious about ourselves about
the world about how things work about
what interests us about everything
curiosity it could be an innate thing
but I think it can also be learned so it
kind of goes back to the whole whatever
it is that interests you follow it no
matter how fleeting or how everlasting
it is because along the way you will
learn something about yourself you will
learn more about what you like and what
you don't like so what this looked like
for me over the weekend was I spent a
couple hours on Skillshare yesterday
looking into how to step up my ig gave
her as consistent as I've been on
YouTube I feel like I've been really
slacking on Instagram I post I don't
even post once a week you know to do
wall on Instagram you have to post
multiple times a day and for me it's
like I don't even feel like I do enough
in a week to post like once or twice a
week and after taking this course by
Lolo Jones it made me realize that
there's actually a lot that I could be
sure a lot of what she talked about it's
like the mindset you have to be curious
about a platform or like whatever it is
that you're doing you have to be curious
about how it works you have to be
curious about ways you can test ways you
can try what works and what doesn't and
all of these I think it's like such
great it's not just advice for Instagram
it's like advice for life and how the
social media landscape is constantly
changing just like how our lives like
the game of life is constantly changing
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always be willing to modify and change
and to learn as we go it's like such an
important key takeaway so with all of
that being said I'm trying harder on my
Instagram I'm gonna start trying harder
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this is something that I struggle with a
lot I just tend to do everything on my
own i I've historically been able to
overcome most things in life by myself
so I tend to retreat into my cave into
my shell and just something happens go
into my cave figure it out and I'll come
back out but I'm slowly starting to
realize these days that it doesn't have
to be like that that I can actually
reach out for help and that there's
actually so many people around me from
my parents to my friends to my cousins
everyone around us they're so willing to
help us but they can't help us if we
don't ask them for it or if we don't
share with them about like our struggles
and what we're going through you know
like a huge part of self-care is the
self is to take care of yourself but
then the objective of self-care isn't to
just be our best selves unlike and
they're right the objective of self-care
at least to me it's so that we can be
our best so that we can help serve other
people and we can't do that if we're
just constantly alone by ourselves and
I'm just I'm mostly saying this to
myself because I tend to spend most of
my days alone or if I have the choice to
go out or to stay in and if I've spent
the day at work with my co-workers who I
love dearly who are like family to me I
probably just choose to be alone but
sometimes by sharing openly with friends
by sharing openly with people in general
what I've been realizing and the
universe has been hinting at me a lot
recently is that the more I opened
myself up to other people the more they
can help me and the more that they
actually do help me either it's through
them sharing their experiences and me
learning from or just knowing that I'm
not alone in my strollers and knowing
I'm not alone in the things that I you
know the things that keep me up at night
that it keeps someone else up at night
too
so it's really important self-care take
care of the self first but also don't
don't like close yourself off to the
point where you're not letting other
people in and let's say if you are
extroverted there's also a degree to how
deep and how substantial these
conversation these outings these
interactions can be this point really is
to just not being afraid of being
vulnerable with friends not being afraid
of opening up not being afraid of
talking about deeper more meaningful
things everyone said
yes honestly this last thing is
something that I haven't been doing much
at all within the past couple of weeks
because I've just been so busy and so
stressed so much easier to project and
to blame other people when to blame the
situation and to blame like external
things when I really looked inward and
reflected why am i stressed why am I
worried why am i confused I didn't even
know like I still don't really know so
what I realized was that I like you know
I don't know it's kind of like pain body
and the power of now where we're just as
humans I don't know like we're addicted
to pain maybe a part of me things like
stressing and being busy is productive
but like it's not every once in a while
it's good to be reminded of these things
either through what you read do your
what your friends are telling you
through what you enlighten too on your
own when you give yourself the space to
just be alone and your own thoughts and
reflect all of that this is my reset
routine I hope you guys enjoy I'm about
to go watch a movie and eat with one of
my best girlfriends in the city and I
usually don't go out on the weekends but
I've been out twice this weekend so I'm
proud of myself
and I'm part of you too for Washington
till the end okay so danger
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