Our health is our own responsibility and sometimes the best thing we can do for our health is to take some time out. How does your time out look like? In today’s post, we’ll consider taking time out to feel rejuvenated again.
Taking time out may be different for each person and may depend on what you enjoy doing. The important part is to realise that we cannot just work all day and sometimes in the night too, we need to take time out as well. How we take time out, may be different for each person.
Some people may take time out by going to the beach and spending some time looking at the ocean or walking on the beach. Others, may participate in sport while some may think the ideal time out is the reading of a good, relaxing book.
Every person is unique in his or her approach to taking time out, but what should be normal for every person, is the fact that time should be taken.
We live in the 21stcentury where productivity is a buzz word, where being busy is seen as a form of devotion to profitability and where it is frowned upon if you are not working and constantly busy or in a rush. We live in times where employers may expect more from employees and it becomes the new normal for everyone to work and work and work without any boundaries.
With modern technology, we are working anywhere and everywhere we go. In the past, people went to work and spend 8 hours a day working and then they would go home and spend time with their families. No longer! Today, people spend 8 to 10 to 12 hours and sometimes more at work being busy working and earning a living and then they go home and continue their work because they have access to the internet and all their work documents right on their phones or tablets or laptops. There are no boundaries and people are just constantly busy working.
This may increase productivity at work, but with the increase in efficiency, comes the increase in stress levels, the increase in fatigue and the increase in burnout!
It is due to this higher risk associated with increased stress levels that people should schedule time out for themselves, but not only to spend with their families; each person needs time out to spend with themselves. Each person needs “me” time.
You should schedule time out in your diary where you solely spend time with yourself and that may take on different forms. It may be doing something that you love to do. It may be going somewhere where you like to go, like the beach. It may be going to watch a movie. It may be sitting in nature overlooking the view or merely sitting reading a book.
What! I don’t have time for that, you may say. That is exactly why you should be doing it. The fact that you don’t have time for it, is a clear indication that you are overburdened and probably live with high-stress levels and you may be well on your way to experiencing burnout.
Taking time out may also mean that you take some time for yourself in order to keep yourself healthy. It may include exercise, it may include a leisurely walk or it may include making use of a good healthcare modality that may help you to relax while addressing your high-stress levels. You may not even realise how stressed you are, because if you are constantly busy and permanently stressed, you become desensitised to your stress levels and you may think that you are not stressed, but your body may totally disagree. Your body might need some rest so that when you go to sleep, you actually wake up refreshed instead of waking up tired.
Therapeutic Reflexology is the ideal healthcare modality to accomplish exactly this in your life. It is an hour that you may take out of your schedule to focus on yourself. It may be an hour every week or it may be an hour every second week or it may even be one hour every month, but it is a well-deserved hour that you spend on yourself.
During a therapeutic reflexology session, you will feel relaxed and literally feel how the stress dissipates from your body as the therapeutic reflexologist works on your feet or other body parts if you desire like your hands or face and so forth. A combination of different forms of therapeutic reflexology may also be incorporated in a session and then the therapeutic reflexologist may work on a variety of body parts in the one session.
Therapeutic Reflexology is a very relaxing healthcare modality and at the same time, you feel relaxed, but more than feeling, it actually helps your body to deal with the stress levels in a healthy way and it is also good as preventative healthcare modality; helping your body to function optimally and in the process attempt to prevent more serious illness conditions from appearing in your life.
Taking time out for yourself is crucial in today’s modern world.
Considering a Therapeutic Reflexology session as part of the time you take out for yourself, might be one of the best decisions you ever make!
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Christo A. Scheepers: Therapeutic Reflexologist
Dip.T.R.(Cum Laude) [IARAMT]
AHPCSA: A11945
Pr. No.: 1080000737453
Tel. 072-800 7243