{"id":889,"date":"2020-09-06T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/?p=889"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:41:16","slug":"the-ultimate-self-care-ritual-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diabetesasia.org\/magazine\/the-ultimate-self-care-ritual-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Self-Care Ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ultimate Self-Care Ritual\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n

Permit yourself to practice the Ultimate Self-care rituals that prioritize your standards of happiness.<\/span> In today\u2019s busy, over-stimulated world, taking the time to slow down can often feel overly indulgent and unproductive, but it\u2019s the opposite. Allowing yourself the time and space to rest and revive is one of the best ways to stimulate clarity and increase an overall sense of happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/higherdose.com\/blogs\/news\/the-ultimate-self-care-ritual<\/span><\/p>\n

Take moments to take care of yourself, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. To make the most of your me-time, create a ritual of consistent practices\u2014routine nourishing and motivating habits that can be realistically sustained.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve curated the ultimate self-care ritual specially designed to soothe and improve to get you started. Plus, a few of our favorite products.<\/b><\/p>\n

Skin Brushing. <\/b>A morning moment, dry brushing offers energizing qualities while improving the look and feel of your skin. Just 3-5 minutes will buzz your body\u2019s connections. Skin is the human body\u2019s largest organ. Skin brushing helps us keep it detoxified with a tantalizing and awakening effect\u2014a healthy, invigorating way to turn sluggish and dull into bright, smooth, and glowing. For traveling, we love the <\/span>Dry Body Brush<\/span><\/a> by EcoTools. (EcoTools produces 100% cruelty-free and vegan synthetic makeup brushes, sponges, applicators, and bath accessories that are both stylish and eco-friendly.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oil Massage. <\/b>Follow skin brushing with nutrient-rich, organic body oil for a calming, soothing effect that replenishes dry skin\u2014locks in moisture, and ensures glowing softness, firmness, and radiance. We opt for <\/span>pure jojoba oil<\/span><\/a>, as it\u2019s the closest molecule to our natural skin.<\/span><\/p>\n

HD Infrared Sauna Blanket. <\/b>Our <\/span>sauna blankets<\/span><\/a> provide a slimming, detoxifying, and mood-heightening experience- perfect at-home or on-the-go\u2014using radiant infrared heat to relax and revive the body. Reduce stress and anxiety, purify your system, and trigger a feel-good dose of your brain\u2019s happiness chemicals: dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Face Mask + Hair Mask<\/b>. A nice, gentle way to enhance quiet, calm reflections. Face and hair masks put you into total spa mode and boost confidence in your appearance. To save time, let your hair and face masks set while soaking in your sauna blanket. Infrared heat raises your core body temperature, opening your pores to absorb face masks better. Also, the heat from your scalp will help activate and enhance nourishing hair masks. For the face, we love <\/span>Clear Improvement Charcoal Honey Mask to Purify & Nourish by Origins<\/span><\/a>\u2014formulated with bamboo charcoal; this purifying mask deep cleans and draws out deep-dwelling pore-clogs, impurities, and debris, while golden wildflower and fermented honey nourish the skin. We look for <\/span>castor oil<\/span><\/a> for hair, which stimulates natural hair growth while restoring and moisturizing damaged strands and nurturing the scalp.<\/span><\/p>\n

Breathwork + Meditation. <\/b>Where consciousness and subconscious meet, focus on slow, intentioned, mindful breathing encourages deep emotional, psychological, and physical cleansing. We can participate in our breath and immediately feel the effects. \u00a0 Enter into meditative states, letting go of unhealthy thoughts, embracing clarity, and establishing positive control of energies\u2026effective and endlessly beneficial, regardless of busy schedules and limited spaces. Tip: if you\u2019re new or prefer to practice with guidance, we recommend zoning out with headphones and the <\/span>1 Giant Mind<\/span><\/a> app\u2014great support for learning, growing, and developing your self-practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis <\/span>article<\/span><\/a> is originally posted on <\/span>HigherDOSE.com\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/higherdose.com\/blogs\/news\/the-ultimate-self-care-ritua<\/a>l<\/p>\n

MEDITATION<\/h3>\n

There are many schools and styles of meditation within\u00a0Hinduism.\u00a0In pre-modern and traditional Hinduism,\u00a0Yoga<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Dhyana<\/i> are practiced to realize the union of one’s eternal self or soul, one’s\u00a0\u0101tman. In\u00a0Advaita Vedanta,\u00a0this is equated with the omnipresent and\u00a0non-dual\u00a0Brahman. In the\u00a0dualistic Yoga school\u00a0and\u00a0Samkhya, the Self is called\u00a0Purusha, a pure consciousness separate from matter. Depending on the tradition, the liberation event is named moksha, vimukti, or kaivalya.<\/p>\n

The earliest clear references to meditation in\u00a0Hindu\u00a0literature are in the middle\u00a0Upanishads\u00a0and the\u00a0Mahabharata\u00a0(including the\u00a0Bhagavad Gita).\u00a0According to\u00a0Gavin Flood, the earlier\u00a0Brihadaranyaka Upanishad describes meditation when it states that “having become calm and concentrated, one perceives the self (\u0101tman<\/i>) within oneself.”<\/p>\n

One of the most influential texts of classical Hindu Yoga is\u00a0Pata\u00f1jali’s\u00a0Yoga sutras\u00a0(c. 400 CE), a text associated with Yoga and Samkhya, which outlines\u00a0eight limbs\u00a0leading to\u00a0kaivalya\u00a0(“aloneness”). These are ethical discipline (Yamas), rules (niyamas), physical postures (\u0101sanas), breath control (pr\u0101\u1e47\u0101yama), withdrawal from the senses (praty\u0101h\u0101ra), one-pointedness of mind (dh\u0101ra\u1e47\u0101), meditation (dhy\u0101na), and finally\u00a0sam\u0101dhi.<\/p>\n

Later developments in Hindu meditation include the compilation of\u00a0Hatha Yoga\u00a0(forceful yoga) compendiums like the\u00a0Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the development of\u00a0Bhakti yoga as a major form of meditation, and\u00a0Tantra. Another important Hindu yoga text is the\u00a0Yoga Yajnavalkya, which uses Hatha Yoga\u00a0and Vedanta Philosophy.<\/p>\n

\"MEDITATION\"<\/p>\n

New Age\u00a0meditations are often influenced by Eastern philosophy, mysticism,\u00a0yoga, Hinduism, and Buddhism, yet may contain some degree of Western influence. In the West, meditation found its mainstream roots through the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when many of the\u00a0youth <\/a>rebelled against traditional religion as a reaction against what some perceived as the failure of Christianity to provide spiritual and ethical guidance. As practiced by the early hippies, New Age meditation is regarded for its techniques of blanking out the mind and releasing oneself from conscious thinking. This is often aided by repetitive chanting of a mantra or focusing on an object.<\/sup>\u00a0New Age meditation evolved into a range of purposes and practices, from serenity and balance to access to other realms of consciousness to the concentration of energy in group meditation to the supreme goal of\u00a0samadhi<\/a>, as in the ancient yogic practice of meditation<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Meditation in the workplace<\/span><\/h3>\n

A 2010 review of the literature on\u00a0spirituality<\/a> and performance in organizations found increased corporate meditation programs.<\/p>\n

As of 2016, around a quarter of U.S. employers were using stress reduction initiatives. The goal was to help reduce stress and improve reactions to stress. Aetna now offers its program to its customers.\u00a0Google<\/a> also implements mindfulness, offering more than a dozen meditation courses, with the most prominent one, “Search Inside Yourself,” having been implemented since 2007.\u00a0General Mills<\/a> offers the Mindful Leadership Program Series, a course that combines mindfulness meditation, yoga, and dialogue intending to develop the mind’s capacity to pay attention.<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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