The Importance Of Self-Care (No Bullshit)

Introduction

Most people go on a life-path journey to self-destruction nowadays. Self-destruction is about destroying the self through means such as junk-food, social media, television, and video games, as well as alcohol, partying, being a degenerate, having casual sex, you name it.

When you put all of your efforts and habits toward becoming 1% worse everyday, you start feeling it in your over-all life and identity too. You start to change, what seemed to be so interesting to you now at school seems to lose life, what seemed to you to be proud achievements, now only become old memories of the past that fade at your seemingly unimportant existence.

This is why, self-care, or taking care of self, or self-help, self-improvement, self-development, self-work, and all of it’s variants, are VITAL to us humans.

If you’ve been on social media once in your life and you saw a « self-care video », it’s probably about relaxation techniques and things to do at the end of the day to give you a moment « special for you ». However, the reality of things is that self-care isn’t only about taking care of your body, brushing your teeth well, using 400 body lotions at each shower or meditating in a bathrobe at 2AM (hey Hamza).

Self-care is about taking care of self, and to take care of self also is to face the necessary challenges because these same challenges can forge who you become, your values, your social status, your identity, and even your relationship, your jobs, your goals, and your social skills. I mean I could make a giant list of how self-improvement can help you improve yourself but that’s the base line thing. So, why engaging in self-care when I could just watch TV? And, in the more « traditional sense », why would I meditate and take care of my body when I can just wake up late, eat junk food and go to work?

The WHY

The why is about mental health, self-esteem, and character.

Your mental health is one of the most important, even the most important, part of your life. That’s simple: if you’re not good in your mind, you’re not good in the world, you’re not good in relationships, you’re not good at anything worth pursuing or that is not purely physical (even tho a bad mental health does affect also physical health, but you can still go to the gym for example).

Life is tough. We all have problems, some bigger, some smaller. But if we do not take care of our vital mental health, we end up falling in dark pits too often. Mental health is FUNDAMENTAL, it might not seem like it now, but trust me, as you’ll grow up and live through dark challenges, you’ll realize how precious it is. Your mind is the paradigm, the lenses, the crystal through which you see the world. If it’s fucked up, your world is fucked up, as easy as it is.

Self-esteem is about love of self and proudness. It’s a « sub-part » of mental health in any healthy individual who accomplished things.

Guess what? Self-care helps you raise self-esteem. It helps you improve your self-esteem by making you proud and grateful of your achievements in the world.

Character is about who you are, your soul. If you don’t go and take care of yourself mentally, you’re going to slowly sacrifice this character, blinded by the lenses of instant gratification and modern degeneracy. Don’t give up. Keep trying to find out who you truly are, at your most easeful, beautiful levels of being.

The HOW

Discipline. Discipline is THE key activity to self-care. Discipline is doing the thing when you don’t want to do the thing but you know it’s good for you. For example, discipline would be to go on a run even if I don’t want to, because I know it’s healthy for me to run. Or, discipline could also look like forcing yourself to go on a vacation, because you know it will bring you more experience than staying at home, even if you could have stayed at home to continue going to the gym or upping your performance or something.

Meditation is also great. It’s extremely relaxing, it helps put the mind back into place after all the bullshit we feed it. It’s really a 1% habit, meaning a top 1% habit, as to say an habit that will give you incredible return on investment.

Regular journaling and retreats in nature are also great to relax and take care of your mind and body. Grateful journaling is also a good idea too. Spending time with friends also is a good idea.

Conclusion

Mental health is crucial as it has ever been, but especially nowadays, with all of these addictions and degeneracy around us. We need to train our mind like we train a soldier, and give it rest as we would give it to a tired child. What I mean here, is that if you don’t take care of your own mind, nobody will. Take care of your mind, keep training your soul too and trying to search out who you really are, in this substance called « soul » which is bigger than you (as it is in theory a concept of self which is supernatural).

Take care of yourself like you would take care of your own child.

I hope this article was of help to you and I’ll see you next time, bye.

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