Hey everyone, welcome to my Swell. Today's swell is about us. The most important relationship that we have is the one we have with ourselves. And we can take care of ourselves through practicing self care. Self care is basically an activity that's good for our physical and mental wellbeing. It's doing something which helps our body, our mind and soul to feel good and always leave us with more energy and feeling of revitalization
Then you talked about basically three types or four types of self care. That is, we have different kinds of self care. That is emotional self care. So saying no to others, physical self care, prioritizing your sleep, eating healthy spiritual self care. These are some of the basic self care. So self care is basically an activity that is good for our physical and mental wellbeing. And in today's technological world, self care is important so that we can be productive and efficient more
Prachi Jhedu
@prachi_9953 · 0:50
Hi. Asta you have beautifully stated the need of selfcare in your soul. We as a human being care for others very much. But we should preserve a state or corner for caring for ourselves too. It helps in knowing ourselves and being more happy. And selfcare also includes accepting one's imperfection and flaws and try to be a better version of oneself. We should start practicing self care therapy as soon as possible in our life. And according to me, it is a first step of loving ourselves
Ramya Pachapur
@NotRamya_ · 1:02
Hello, guys. I hope you are doing good. So in these days, I've literally seen people, like, going on extremely strict diets and literally starving themselves. And then they literally want to be like, the beautiful girl or whatsoever. But the thing is, they literally don't see themselves like others do. Like, they don't actually realize how beautiful they are because they literally neglect themselves. They literally have negative thoughts about themselves because they don't love themselves enough
Prabha Iyer
@PSPV · 2:05
We keep thinking about it. So don't stress yourself too much. Nothing is permanent. Don't give permanent motions to temporary problems. So remain calm. Things will pass on. It's very difficult to say rather than to follow. But this is true. You have to be having patience. You have to love yourself. You have to care about yourself. So will you care about others truly and honestly without doing anything for you? You can never do everything for everyone
Vipin Kamble
@Vipin0124 · 2:58
Thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful concept and taking it out, speaking about it and making people aware about it. Thank you. One more time
Disha Agarwal
@disha_aga05 · 3:14
And it's just my own insecurities that are projecting onto other people rather than helping me take care of myself and the inner child, as they say in me. So thank you because self care has been an essential part of maintaining a healthy and happy balance for me, because it allows me to recharge, refocus and rewire my whole entire system. So thank you for this topic and I wish you all the very best and I wish everyone all the very best on their journeys of self care and improvement
Rubab Sandhu
@ummerubab11 · 4:14
Hello Islam Nikum thank you so very much. First of all, that you have chosen such a topic, such a great topic. And this is the topic on which nobody wants to talk about. And the other thing is self care is something very important and we all people are direly in need of it because whatever the circumstances going on or whatever we the young generations are going this is something very neglected. People don't care about ourselves, we just care about others
Awani Tripathi
@Avnitripathi · 1:07
And when you take care of yourself, you are not stressed. You are able to meet the needs of others and take care of them really well. Self care is giving the world the best of you instead what's left of you. And as it is rightly said that self care is not self indulgence but self preservation. So one should always take care of themselves. Because if they will be fine, they could take care of every other person around them
So yeah, they say that if you want to make someone happy or if you want to make someone fall love with you, then first you need to be happy with him or you need to love yourself which we should adapt in our daily life. Now, that is upon your personal perception how you awani to take care how you want to self loving yourself. And I'm really glad hearing such topic from you all or everyone here also. Thank you. Have a great
It just means that relaxing your body, your mind, taking care of yourself, taking care of your thoughts, separating the negative and the positive thoughts, allowing the negative thoughts to move away and filling your body with positivity. It can come in various forms. Some people may call self care in the form of listening music. Some people may call self care in the form of dancing or writing anything. It's just what person's personality depends on
Aastha Sharma
@aasthasharma · 0:34
Hey, Avantika, you have rightly pointed that due to increase in technology nowadays people have been indulging in it more. Now we can work 24/7 using the technological devices like laptops, due to which we left with no time to take care of ourselves. So if through self care we take some time for ourselves, it will definitely boost up our energy, due to which we will be more productive and efficient at work. Thank you
Aastha Sharma
@aasthasharma · 0:43
Hey, I definitely agree with you that nowadays to look like another person, the so called perfect person, people follow a lot of ways. Like going on diets using cosmetics full of chemicals which only makes them go through lot of uncomfortness like who will prefer starving themselves. And the idea, the whole idea of self care is to make yourself comfortable and accepting the way you are. As I believe we are perfect in our imperfections. Thank you
Aastha Sharma
@aasthasharma · 0:57
Thank you so much, ma'am, for the wonderful reply that I have got from you. You taught me even more ways through which we can practice our self care. Like respecting ourselves. Sometimes we don't consider us enough worthy, because of which we only feel low. And the very idea of having patience that you said we should be patient enough and believe in the process, because things will only take place when it's the correct time, so that we can enjoy its fruit more
Aastha Sharma
@aasthasharma · 1:23
Ah. Thank you so much, ma'am. You have really inspired me through sharing your experience with not only me, but a lot of people who will be listening to this. Well, in a busy life like yours, where you need to take care of your family, your baby, where you have literally no time to take out for yourself, but still, you managed so much, and you have continued this journey of self care since two years, which will definitely go beyond as well
Swati Sharma
@Swatiselflove · 0:58
And we keep on forgetting that we have got some other aspects as well to our personality, whether it has to do with our emotional side or spiritual side and we just don't take good care of them. So it's very important that one needs to go within oneself and see what really keeps himself or herself happy, more satisfied, and which can add on more enriching experiences to his or her life so that he can act in a more sane and a more stable manner. All the best
Physiologically, psychologically. In this aspects we should not only take care of the fact that we're drinking enough water, we're eating healthy food, we're taking care of our skin and keeping it clean, but also the fact that we are taking a break for ourselves on a constant basis. We are not overloading ourselves with too much work and burning ourselves out. We should take breaks to either dance, sing or do whatever we enjoy
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
vani singhal
@vaanisinghal · 1:02
Evening, ma'am. You very well explained that how physical and mental selfcare is so important to us. However, I would like to bring in light some of the things which I feel are also important. For example, you mentioned that selfcare is actually very important for our physical and mental wellness. But today, in this busy routine, it makes it really tough for us to take care of ourselves. Where these youngsters are really with social media and this self care is often labeled as procrastinating on social media
Hey Asta, I really loved how you put forward this aspect of self care in a very precise and articulate manner. And I completely agree with how you've put it as self preservation and not self indulgence or being selfish because several times it is equated with indulging too much in oneself and not paying attention to say the social world and the outside world and everything which is again wrong if one does it or if others perceive one to doing it. Next, I have a question for you
Ayushi Das
@Ayus_01 · 1:03
Talk good to yourself about yourself. I mean, why not? You rightly mentioned that self care selfish and I definitely agree on that point because no one's going to make you realize your worth but you. This was an amazing topic that we chose to talk on. Thank you. That's what I have to say