Workers nowadays tend to have a very fast workflow at the office due to the responsibilities and a packed schedule which make them so caught up in their job. As a result, they will experience sudden fatigue even without doing any physical activities. This is one of the signs that you are in a stressful condition.
It might be accumulated to be a depression if you don’t give a self-care to yourself. You need to create some space and time to practice some simple self-care activities to maintain your mental health in a good state.
There are 6 simple self-care activities. Some of them are worth to try in your spare time at the office. You may need to find your rhythm to build a good habit, so you need to keep yourself on track.
1. Stretch
Working from 9 a.m until 5 p.m at your desk may give tension on your body. You need to take some minutes rest every three hours to release the tension on your body by doing a simple stretching. There are plenty of tutorial videos on YouTube which you can freely access, so you can find the most suitable one with your condition.
2. Breath
It is not just simply breathing. It is breathing in a certain formation like in 4-7-8 breathing technique. It can help to clear up your mind and make a room in your chest. It just takes some minutes, so you can find a time in the middle of your break or lunchtime.
3. Try something new
Living day by day, doing the same job from Monday to Friday may give yourself a chance to burnout due to fatigue. You need to try some new things on the weekend like finding new hobbies such as gardening, cooking, painting, and many more. It will give you positive destruction on your weekly routine activities.
4. Quality time with a quality person
Meeting such a click person in your life is something that you cannot buy with money. It is a treasure. Love or to be loved will give you a “way” to confess your feeling properly.
It’s like the basic needs of human beings. Your emotion will be relatively stable because there is someone who listens to you. It may give you a positive insight and a new point of view about a problem which you need to face at the office.
5. Take a walk
You can do this activity at the office when you lack ideas or you start to feel stuck at some problems. Just a simple walk such as walk to the pantry and make a cup of coffee or walk to the backyard to see some green. It may give a big impact to restart your mind in a blink of an eye.
6. Quality sleep
After a long day at the office, your body needs to take its time to restart all of the systems that only work when you are in a deep sleep. So it is really important to have a good sleep every night because it’s not only giving impact to your physic but also your mental health.