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Speedy (But Mindful) Self-Care To Easily Add To Any Routine

Self-care is in the spotlight these days as a great way to glow-up, boost mental health and gain confidence and clarity. As we have seen online, self-care regimes have become more and more elaborate and unattainable. But you can easily incorporate small improvements into your daily life without busting your schedule.

What’s more, using the Japanese concept of kaizen, making small and incremental consistent and continuous improvements, can help you achieve your self-care goals in an efficient manner. Adding mindfulness to these small rituals helps to implement them successfully, such as making a dedicated self-care area, so you can grab and go.

Here’s some speedy self-care tips that won’t waste your time while enhancing your everyday life.

The shower is key to speedy self-care. Start thinking of using your shower in creative ways to enhance yourself. 

Perhaps you have heard of Dry Brushing for Lymphatic Drainage. It’s easy and time effective. The speed version is to concentrate on your lymph node areas when you wash in the shower and when you moisturize.  Same areas of the body, skip the brush if you don’t have time. Add a scrub in the shower, such as a salt scrub, to this routine as simple way to exfoliate followed by moisturizing. 

If you are a dedicated flosser, you know that you can spend a lot of time on that healthy habit. Quicker and even possibly more effective is using an electric flosser in the shower, water off, of course, which saves you from spraying all over your bathroom and having to clean up the entire bathroom afterwards. An electric flosser may be more quick and effective than your regular flossing habit.

Do you need a cold plunge in your multi-million-dollar home?  You can simply spare a few minutes in the shower for a cold-water boost. Cold water is known to have many health benefits and is a quick, easy addition to your shower routine. Under doctor’s directions, a cold shower is an easily available cold therapy, compared to the expense of cryotherapy.

Maximize your moisturizing routine with body wash and body oils that are designed to relax you or rev you up depending on their formulations. You can use a citrus peppermint formulation in the morning, when you want to rev up, and lavender chamomile when you want to prepare for sleep. If you have a scent free body butter or moisturizer, you can choose your own adventure, adding a little essential oil of your choice. A drop of Bio-Oil (skin treatment oil) to your facial moisturizer makes it creamier. 

Tea tree oil is another go-to product, for routine annoyances like minor cuticle cuts and pimples. If you were on a desert island, you’d want that.  Petroleum free Multi-Purpose Jelly works well on areas around cuticles.

Not just hands, include the face and neck, with your daily sunscreen. Simple.

Specialize. Specialized shampoos and conditioner help you reach your hair goals fast. Adding a little conditioner to your shampoo or a combined shampoo and conditioner gets the job done faster. Using your conditioner as a leave-in saves a step. Washing your hair a few times less a week does too. Try at-home treatments, quicker than salon appointments, such as with keratin products. If you’re lazy with shampoo and conditioner, a scalp massager gets the job done quicker. 

No time to book a massage appointment?  Get an at-home device or trigger point massage tool. You can use these tools while powering down at night. Simply keeping your phone away from your bed provides an instant aura of calm.

At home facial devices save time when you can’t get to a facialist. So many great, proven and tested devices are now available for a variety of needs, such as facial toning or microdermabrasion. These devices also help you personalize your skincare regime.

At home red light therapy can help you achieve facial goals too. They double as an assist when you need substitute sunlight when the days get dark. Combine your ten-minute red light therapy face mask use with an online audio meditation.

A magnified, lighted mirror helps you identify facial areas that you feel need work more efficiently, for tweezing, or make up application, and for areas such as dark spots and wrinkles. Some would say nothing is going to be more helpful, since poor lighting can be quite deceptive.

The multidimensional nail file allows you to file your nails while buffing and shining, using different sides of the file, followed by a little jojoba oil. Jojoba oil itself is a mighty multi-purpose tool in your quick self-care arsenal.

Having ice packs available can soothe areas, such as puffy eyes, stings and small burns quickly and effectively.

Get your supplements right. When you have a yearly physical, get blood tests that indicate what you really need instead of guessing, such as calcium and Vitamin D. Make a determination with your medical professionals about what supplements are right for you. A pill organizer can help you identify your supplements faster throughout the day.

Add it. Slip in nutrition. You know you can use powders, like greens and collagen in smoothies, but you can also add them to cereals and yogurt. Add carrot or squash puree to tomato sauce. Include the right supplements with your meals and the time of day.

Optimize your sleep with the phone out of the bedroom. Use specialized sheets and pillows based on your needs, such satin pillowcases for your face or an incline pillow. Extremes aren’t necessary, just the proper set up. Simply set up your bedroom area so it works to cocoon and relax you. Keep your sleep precious by personalizing it with calming colors, a diffuser and non-toxic fabrics.

Eyewear for outside. Don’t neglect your eyewear outside with prescription sunglasses. It’s a fashionable way to shield your eyes while protecting them.

Subtract it. Simply remove toxins from your life – with less. Less sugar, less processed foods. Avoid them when you can. Nothing quicker than not adding sugar.  Quick and easy to avoid adding things that you don’t need, less complications. 

Balance. Balance so-called bad foods with good ones, such as fruit with a little cacao-based or chocolate tahini syrup. Eat a slice of pizza followed by a piece of fruit.

Don’t spare on the spices since they can enhance your meals while helping to increase your metabolism.

Optimize your water. Who says water has to be boring?  Infusions like lemon, cinnamon and green tea turns it up a notch, so you’ll drink more throughout the day. Fruits and veggies add to your water goals.

Add liquid mushroom extract to your regular coffee. You won’t even notice it. It’s a great way to transition to mushroom coffee or keep your regular coffee habit.  

Coconut oil pulling, an ancient Ayurvedic remedy, involves swishing a spoonful of organic coconut oil around the mouth and through the teeth for 10 to 20 minutes, as an anti-bacterial measure. It can be accomplished while doing other chores around the house.

Count walking and daily activities as your fitness routine when you don’t have time to work out. Get a tracker or a fit bit. You can meet your goals more quickly and effectively than you think. You may not have time to go for a run but your daily errands may add up to your calories burned.

Quick motivation. Don’t plan to meet a number on a scale.  Plan to wear the size of the jeans that no longer fit you in your closet. The jeans are a tangible goal, not just a number on the scale. In fact, keep the jeans within your sightline, hanging them on the door, so you can’t avoid them.

Look for clean, double duty make up products. Foundations that are undereye cover, blushes you can use on your lips and cheeks. A five-minute makeup routine is achievable with practice.

Self-care is personal. Out-of-the-box thinking can help you create a healthier self while arriving to work, appointments or dates on time. In a speedy world, you don’t need to neglect your self-care. It’s important, without being a hindrance, when you take the time to make it fit.