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Self-care is essential for maintaining physical, mental, and emotional health. It involves taking intentional actions to care for your wellbeing. Self-care can include various activities such as exercise, proper nutrition, adequate sleep, and mindfulness.
The Importance of Healthy Living
Incorporating healthy living practices can significantly improve overall wellbeing. These practices are habits and routines that promote physical health and mental stability. Healthy living is not just about avoiding illness but also about fostering a lifestyle that supports long-term health and happiness. By making conscious choices about diet, exercise, and stress management, you can take control of your wellbeing and achieve a better quality of life.
Regular Exercise
Regular exercise helps release endorphins, which are natural mood lifters. Two hours a week of moderate aerobic activity can have a profound impact on physical and mental health. It also helps a healthy weight and reduces the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.
A Balanced Diet
A balanced diet provides necessary nutrients and supports immune function. Consuming foods from all food groups ensures the body gets essential vitamins and minerals. Proper nutrition can aid better mental health, with certain nutrients like omega-3 fatty acids playing a role in brain function.
Mindfulness and Relaxation Techniques
Mindfulness, meditation and relaxation techniques reduce stress and enhance mental clarity, promoting a state of calm, which is essential for mental wellbeing. Mindfulness can improve focus, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, and enhance overall emotional health.
Adequate Sleep
Sleep is crucial for recovery, cognitive function, and emotional balance. It allows the body to repair and the brain to process information. Poor sleep can lead to various health issues, including decreased immunity, weight gain, and impaired cognitive abilities.
Staying Hydrated
Water plays a key role in digestion, circulation, and temperature regulation. Dehydration can lead to fatigue, headaches, and impaired concentration, so stay hydrated to maintain your energy levels and focus.
Preventing Chronic Diseases
Healthy living habits can prevent chronic diseases and increase longevity. They can help prevent hypertension, diabetes, and certain cancers. Prevention is always better than cure, and making small, sustainable changes in daily life can have long-term benefits.
Personalised Self-Care Routines
What works for one person may not work for another. Listen to your body and mind and identify the practices that provide the most benefit. Self-care should be a priority whether taking a daily walk, weekly yoga, or enjoying a hobby. Tailoring self-care routines to personal preferences ensures they are sustainable and effective.
Come with us, embark on your journey of self-care, and experience the benefits firsthand. Once you start, the positive changes will inspire you, and you won't want to look back.
Diploma in Self-Care & Healthy Living (optional). Accredited by IPHM
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FRESH START
ATTITUDE: You have the power, Be determined, Go with the flow, Lighten up,
CHANGE: The process of change, Changing your thinking, Being willing to change.
HOLISTIC HEALTH: Treating the body as a whole.
RESTORING BALANCE: Yin & Yang body balance, Left & right brain balance.
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Learning Outcome:
- Steps needed to make a fresh start in health, fitness, energy levels, thinking and lifestyle.
- Importance of attitude, determination and perseverance.
- How to make changes in yourself or your life as a structure which enables achievement
STRESS: Automatic stress response, Cortisol & Adrenaline
BODY: Body System, Body Cell, Metabolism, Homeostasis, Health Enemies, Free Radical Attack, Blood Sugar Imbalance, Detoxification, Inflammation, Immune System, Your health is in your hands.
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Learning Outcome:
- How stress can affect the body, mind and behaviour.
- Body cell, metabolism, homeostasis (body balance).
- How all body parts work together to maintain health
- Major causes of illness and how these can be prevented.
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM: Your digestive system is your best friend, Chew for health, Essential digestive steps, Absorb-Digest-Circulate-Eliminate.
FOOD: Get the most from your food, Dietary bad news, Trans fats, Sugar, Non foods, Abused foods, Excessive alcohol, Food-Health Connection, Revitalising foods, Water, Fibre, Antioxidants, The Balanced Diet, Carbohydrates, Fats, Essential Fatty Acids, Protein, Vitamins, Minerals, Enzymes, Superfoods, Good food habits in, Bad food habits out, Stabilise your weight.
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Learning Outcome:
- How the digestive system works and how to keep it in good condition.
- Importance of chewing, absorbing, digesting, circulating and eliminating within the digestive process.
- How nutrient-rich food, clean eating and good eating habits keep the digestive system healthy.
- What to eat, how and when to eat, what to avoid, how to get a balanced diet and maintain good body weight.
ENERGY CLEARING
CLUTTER CLEARING: How clutter affects You, Why you have clutter, Identifying your clutter, Having courage to let go, Clutter tips, Clutter tools, Clutter action.
SPACE CLEARING: Space clearing tools, Space clearing action, Create your auric protection.
CLEARING HABITS & ADDICTIONS: Smoking, Alcohol, Drugs, Over-Eating, How to break habits.
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Learning Outcome:
- Clearing energy in your surroundings and body, to enable overall healthy living.
- Restoring balance in your surroundings
- Clearing habits and addictions to enable free-flowing energy through you and your life.
QUALITY BREATHING: Diaphragmatic (Abdominal) Breathing, Alternate Nostril Breathing.
RELAXATION: Progressive Relaxation, Autogenic Relaxation for Stress
MEDITATION: What happens when we meditate, Making time for meditation, basic meditation technique.
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Learning Outcome:
- Breathing properly to maintain good health and how this can be done.
- Several relaxation techniques which can be used anytime, anywhere and for short periods of time. These will go a long way to reducing stress, boosting the immune system and improving health and well-being.
- Benefits of meditation, and how to meditate for very short or longer periods, proving to yourself the effectiveness of meditation in boosting your wellbeing.
BALANCING SELF-THERAPY: Air Ions, Dry Skin Brushing, Self-Massage: body, head, shoulders, neck, scalp.
MOVE YOUR BODY: Posture, Exercise.
ENERGISE YOUR BRAIN: Use it or lose it, Easy effective brain health.
ENERGISE HAIR, SKIN, CLOTHES
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Learning Outcome:
- Several different methods of treating yourself to some calming and re-energising self-therapies, which cost nothing, except a few minutes of your time.
- Benefits of good posture and exercise in maintaining a flexible and healthy body, and agile movement.
- How to keep your mind and brain healthy and in optimum condition throughout life.
- Several ideas of how to keep your hair, skin and clothes energised.
SLEEP:
- Sleep patterns & dreaming, How much sleep we need, Catnaps, Insomnia & poor sleep,
- Causes & Remedies: environmental, lifestyle, physical, psychological.
- Self-help for sleep: self-massage, physical exercise, mental exercise, relaxation, breathing, colour breathing.
- Electromagnetic stress
- Natural alternatives to sleeping pills
- Eat for sleep
- Sleep routine
- Final hour before bedtime.
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Learning Outcome:
- What sleep is all about and the importance of good quality sleep for overall health and well-being.
- Many natural ways in which you can achieve a good night's sleep, and restore balance, maintain good health, strengthen your immune system and have lots more energy.
MANAGE YOUR TIME: Learn to say No, Don't be a perfectionist, Don't put off decisions.
MINDFULNESS: Staying in the moment, Accepting and letting it pass.
POSITIVE THINKING: The mind affects the body, How negative self-talk starts, Pressing Cancel on old negative messages, Re-programming your thinking.
AFFIRMATIONS: Replacing negative thoughts with positive ones.
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Learning Outcome:
- How to manage your time more effectively, in order to maintain balance, calm and efficiency.
- Knowledge of an easy, popular and powerful form of meditation for keeping you focused on what you are doing, for more efficiency, a calmer body and mind-set, stress relief and restoring balance to your bodily system.
- How to create a positive mind-set in order to achieve a positive outcome in what you wish for yourself.
- How affirmations can help you to replace old negative thinking with positive thinking, and the best ways in which to affirm.
SELF-ESTEEM: Affirming success, Valuing yourself, Getting on well with yourself, How to develop self-esteem, Setting realistic expectations, Setting aside perfection, Adjusting your self-image, Don't compare yourself with others, Effective self-esteem affirming, High self-esteem body language, High self-esteem mind-set.
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Learning Outcome:
- Importance of learning how to empower yourself by developing self-esteem. You will learn how to develop this.
- How to affirm success and how to value yourself.
SELF-RESPECT: Developing self-respect, Developing self-efficacy, Identifying your qualities, abilities & talents, Changing your perspective.
SELF-CONFIDENCE: Easy self-confidence tips,
SELF-CONFIDENCE & ASSERTIVENESS: Dealing with difficult people, How to say No, When you have to say Yes, Useful assertive phrases & responses.
ULTIMATE WELL-BEING: Power nutrition, Improve on what you can about yourself, Change a habit, Move, Sleep, Brain fitness, Be optimistic, Tidy up your act, Lead a simple lifestyle, Indulge yourself, Keep disciplined & organised, Have a purpose, Socialise, Sense of humour, Inner peace & serenity.
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Learning Outcome:
- Importance of learning how to empower yourself by developing self-respect, self-efficacy and self-confidence. You will learn how to develop these.
- How to change your perspective, so that you empower yourself and feel good about yourself.
- How to be assertive, so that you can speak out when you want to, express yourself clearly and make people want to listen to you.
- How to say No and when to say Yes.
- How to deal with different types of difficult people in a positive way, and create a win-win outcome for yourself and the other person.
- The positive steps you have taken in this course to improve your health and well-being.
Ways To Pay
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Total Price: £298.00
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Instalment Option: £86 | then 4 x £53 during the course.
- An instalment of £53 to be paid when you submit homework for Questions 2, 3, 4, 5. We will send a reminder and a payment link.
