A sense of well-being is an emotional state in which physical and psychological needs are met. This requires working on several aspects: diet, skin care and beauty, social environment, and mental health.
What to remember :
- For overall well-being, lifestyle must be adapted and balanced.
- Sufficient hydration and a balanced and varied diet are the keys to a good wellness routine.
- Using products that are suited to your needs and respectful of your skin and the environment is essential.
- Taking care of your mental health is just as essential.
Here are our top tips for adopting a sustainable wellness routine.
Why and how to adopt a daily wellness routine?
Why is it important to adopt a good wellness routine?
Adopting a general routine is, above all, establishing lifestyle habits that beneficially regulate the environment in which we live. Indeed, our living environments can sometimes be stressful and unbalanced. Establishing new habits can therefore be motivated by several aspects:
- The need to define a regular rhythm in order to separate personal and professional environments
- The need to take time for yourself for optimal physical and mental well-being
- The desire to release tensions that can build up and lead, in some people, to generalized fatigue of the body
- The need to adopt good lifestyle habits to regulate a particular medical problem
How to set up a new wellness routine?
In order to establish new lifestyle habits, it is necessary to identify the means that will make this routine easy and sustainable . First, it is necessary to identify the motivating factors discussed above. After finding the origin of the motivation for this change, it is necessary to prioritize the elements that we wish to modify in our lifestyle (diet, care, mental well-being, etc.). Then, gradually, new habits can be integrated.
Our little tip : avoid imposing too many demands on yourself at once. Target your needs to prioritize the habits you want to incorporate into your daily life. Likewise, avoid feeling guilty if you forget to add a new step to your wellness routine. Occasional slip-ups won't compromise your routine or undo its benefits.
Let's take the example of diet, many people want to rebalance it, however it takes time and you have to know how to accept to treat yourself and avoid entering into a drastic lifestyle pattern.
Our tips for an ideal daily wellness routine
#1 - Hydration, the pillar of good health
The body is composed on average of 65% water . It uses this water in particular for the basic physiological functions of the body while modulating consumption according to the temperature and daily activities. It is recommended to provide the body with at least 2.5 L of water per day, including 1 L from food and 1.5 L from drinking water .
The foods richest in water are, unsurprisingly, fruits and vegetables . It is recommended to consume 5 per day (2 fruits and 3 vegetables). In addition, they provide many micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), fuel for our body and our vital functions.
Hydration also involves the skin . Using a skincare cream that is suited to your skin type is essential to slow down aging and maintain skin firmness.
Apply your cream all over your body after showering for healthy skin.
For the face, the use of a suitable cream is highly recommended, as is sunscreen all year round to slow down skin aging. Indeed, even in winter, the sun can still show up and impact our skin. This is why UV protection must be used all year round.
#2 - Choosing the right products
Cream, serum, lotion, cleanser—it's not uncommon to get lost among all these products. That's why we recommend asking specialists in store for advice on how to adapt the products to your needs and your skin.
In addition, the choice of products is important because depending on the compositions, the effects will not be the same. Likewise, it is always interesting to favor treatments from local French production that respects the environment and promotes short circuits .
New products that are also attracting more and more people are those from nutricosmetics . These products in the form of food supplements will act on different external aspects of the body (skin, hair, nails). Indeed, depending on the compositions, they will have a specific action on a problem.
Nutricosmetics is therefore based on the principle that preserving external beauty requires, above all, taking care of one's "inner self".
#3 - Soothing through body and mind
In the medical field, it is common to hear that mental health greatly influences the physical health of the body. Indeed, the brain is the regulatory center of the body. It allows various systems (cardiac, hormonal, digestive, immune, etc.) to be optimally maintained. For many years, scientific studies have agreed that mental health, and therefore the psychological and psychiatric state of a person, strongly affects the body as a whole (internal and external).
It is therefore possible to calm your tensions and negative thoughts thanks to different exercises to put in place throughout your weeks:
- When you wake up : take a few minutes to stretch and get your body moving to start the day off on the right foot
- In the morning or during the day: practice a sport (one that you like and that you can do) 2 to 3 times a week to release tension and exercise.
- During the week: if you wish, carry out a yoga, sophrology , meditation , or other session to relax your body and mind while working on your breathing and performing positive visualization.
- During the week, or in the evening as often as you wish: carry out a deeper stretching session to loosen up the body
- During the week when you feel the need: give yourself some time just for yourself to congratulate yourself, encourage yourself and send yourself positive phrases and thoughts.
Our little extra tip : incorporate probiotic- rich foods into your diet . Rebalancing your microbiota also supports your digestive and immune systems and facilitates the assimilation of nutrients.
In short, a wellness routine is above all the choice of new lifestyle habits adapted to your needs, desires and availability . The essential thing is to understand what makes you feel good, keeps you healthy while making you happy.
Don't try to adopt the perfect routine from the start; it's a gradual process. Plus, these habits should also be enjoyable for your wellness routine to be sustainable.
Sources :
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