Body: The body is an integral part of self-care. It acts as a machine that can boost you towards optimal performance or sink you depending on how well you care for your body. Mindfulness of what you eat, your daily activity, and what you put on your body is imperative to proper self-care.

Here are 5 tips to boost your body towards optimal performance:

• Follow the cardinal rule: too much of one thing is never good.
  • A more balanced meal with smaller portions will go a long way towards healthy eating.
• Don’t have time to think of a balanced meal?
  • Try services like Hello Fresh and Blue Apron where you can pick out the meal that you want and then the meal is mailed to you with all the ingredients and instructions needed to create the dish.
• Use Meditation as a tool to relax both your mind and your body.
  • Try apps like headspace to get guided mediations right on your phone.
• Exercise or activity is an essential way to ensure that the systems in your body are moving and fluid.
  • If you don’t have the money for a gym membership there are plenty of free workouts available on You Tube
  • Walking every day is a good way to tart introducing activity into your life.
• Mindfulness of what is put on your body is important because anything that is put onto the body can make its way into your blood stream. There are so many harmful chemicals in different products that sometimes simplifying and using organic oils and butters can be way more beneficial then the chemical cocktails available at your local drugstore.
  • Black soap for the body, coconut oil and shea butter are great organic essentials to add to your body care.

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