Quarter 2 Are You on Your List?: Eight Holiday Self-Care and Stress Management Tips It’s easy to get carried away with boost personal wellness during 6) Listen to calming music: the inevitable and unavoidable the holiday season. Soothing music helps relax your stress associated with the holiday body. Nature sounds can also help season. Take control of your well - 1) Breathe: Take deep, centering reduce stress. being so you can be fully present breaths throughout the day. They through the cookies and carols. help relax your body and mind. 7) Take a holistic health approach: Self-care means paying attention to Do tension and stress somehow 2) Know your more than how much you eat or manage to sneak into your holiday priorities: Remembering what’s exercise. It also requires paying excitement? If so, you’re not alone. most important to you can help attention to your thoughts, feelings, Even if you’re having fun, adding overcome feelings of overwhelm. If expectations, and interactions. extra activities and commitments to there isn’t enough time to satisfy Remember, optimal health means an already full plate can be stressful. all the holiday demands, finishing functioning at your best in all areas In the midst of all the holiday hustle the most important things can of your life not just in your body. and bustle it’s important to create a sense of peace. remember to take care of yourself. 8) Create new, self-supportive 3) Give from a full cup: You can’t traditions: If trying to do things “the The idea of self-care makes some take care of others if you’re sick, way they were always done” creates people cringe, but it’s the key to burned out, or generally too cranky more stress than joy, take a step maintaining personal health and to care. Make a point to do back and figure out a new approach. wellness. Often mistaken for something nourishing and uplifting. Maybe your new idea will become selfishness or neglecting others, It can be as simple as luxuriating the next family tradition. Traditions self-care is actually an act of love. over a cup of hot chocolate or as have to start somewhere! Everyone depending on you benefits special as a spa day. Hamilton, Donna, MD: moreLIFSTYLE, when you first take care of yourself. http://www.more.com/lifestyle/exercise-health/are- 4) Listen to your body: Many you-your-list-eight-holiday-self-care-and-stress- management-tips Being healthy and relaxed makes it people ignore or override their easier for you to accomplish all the body’s signals. Your body might be wonderful things you want to do for able to tolerate this neglect under family and friends. It’s tough to shop, normal circumstances but adding the decorate or cook when you feel run increased stress of the holiday down, have a cold, or need sleep. The season might be more than it can holiday spirit comes a bit easier when take. To increase your chance of you have more in your emotional and staying healthy during the holidays energetic tank to give. listen to your body. For example, take time to eat if you feel hungry. If Don’t worry if the idea of adding one you’re sleepy, get enough sleep. more commitment to your to -do list makes you want to scream. Self- 5) Laugh it up: Humor is great for care can be easy and inexpensive. stress reduction. Do something that Gradually doing simple things can makes you laugh. Need some ideas? significantly boost your personal How about watching a funny movie, wellness. Here are 8 easy and singing and dancing to fun music, or inexpensive self-care tips to help telling silly jokes. 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Flatt, M.D. Hand Collection at Bylor University Medical Center 36 Perot Museum of Nature and Science’s lobby and outdoor plaza 37 Pegasus Plaza 38 Klyde Warren Park 39 White Rock Lake 40 Main Street Garden; Reverchon Park Principles of Good Character Golden Rules of Goal Setting Arthur S. Adams • You character is defined by what you do, not what 1. Set goals that motivate you – why is it you say. Action speaks louder than words. important and valuable to you • Every choice you make helps define the kind of person you are choosing to be. 2. Set SMART goals • Good character requires doing the right thing, even when it is costly or risky. a) Specific (or significant) • What you do matters, and one person can make a big different. b) Measurable (or meaningful) c) Attainable (or action-oriented) d) Relevant (or rewarding) e) Time bound (or trackable) 3. Set goals in writing – it makes it real and tangible 4. 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