Dr. Gena Chiropractic - Your Favorite Family Chiropractors - Plantation, Florida

Self-care. As hot a buzzword as it is right now on social media, if we take a step back and really think about what self-care is, means, and provides us with – we’d realize it’s a whole lot more important than just getting a manicure once in a while.

A regular self-care is crucial to your emotional and physical well-being.

At Dr. Gena Chiropractic, a leading family chiropractor in Plantation, we’re committed to a healthy you; mind, body and spirit. While chiropractic care helps reduce nerve system interference from stress your body, we want to ensure you’re also working on the stresses and interferences in your mind – the one’s you face on a daily basis.

According to this article in Very Well Mind, self-care is an important aspect of stress management. We all know how negatively stress impacts our well-being and can  range from everything including:

• Chronic pain
• Anxiety and depression
• Inflammation
• Trouble sleeping
• Mood imbalance

All of these issues, on their own or compiled together, keep you from functioning at your maximum potential. Undealt with stress over time begins to affect us more and more. According to WebMD, ongoing, chronic stress, however, can cause or exacerbate many serious health problems, including: Mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and personality disorders. Cardiovascular disease, including heart disease, high blood pressure, abnormal heart rhythms, heart attacks, and stroke.

Now that we have your attention, here are some easy ways to make self-care a daily routine, so that you give yourself the love you deserve to continue living a happy, healthy life for you and your family. And the best part? You won’t need to break the bank with expensive visits to salons or spas. These are three things you do on a daily basis already – it’s as simple as breathing, moving, and sleeping.

Breathing

 Literally. It’s as easy as that. When your schedule, lifestyle and budget do not allow for weekly massages to help relax, breathing is shown to be just as powerful a tool to help you focus on yourself and your well-being. Research compiled by the University of Michigan just last year shows that “deep breathing is one of the best ways to lower stress in the body. This is because when you breathe deeply, it sends a message to your brain to calm down and relax. The brain then sends this message to your body. Those things that happen when you are stressed, such as increased heart rate, fast breathing, and high blood pressure, all decrease as you breathe deeply to relax.”

Click here for the best breathing exercises for self-care.

Moving

Long, muscle-busting workouts are not the objective here. But getting your blood pumping and your endorphins activated is. Taking a few minutes every day to separate yourself from your day-to-day activities and enjoy a quiet walk by yourself does so much more good than you might realize. Walking just 20-30 minutes outdoors, a few times per week was been proven to alleviate stress and give your mind a boost – and there’s no better self-care than that!

Sleeping

Sleep is like chicken soup for the stressed-out soul – a powerful form of self-care. Ignoring your sleep needs is like refusing to put gas in your car’s tank before a road trip and wondering why you’re not getting anywhere. Sleep refreshes our bodies and our minds, and when it’s ignored, all of the self-care rituals in the world won’t help you much.

“We’re seeing even our youngest patients suffer the effects of being overtired, and it’s pretty scary when you know what kind of long-term effects lack of sleep can have on the body,” Dr. Gena says. “Our passion for keeping people well extends far beyond our chiropractic care facility, and we want our patients feeling their best in all aspects of their lives – and it all starts in the bedroom.”

The caveat here is that the more stressed out you are, the harder it is to sleep. Engaging in the first two self-care exercises will help reduce said stress so that you can hit the pillow easily every night.

The bottom line here is, we care about your well-being. We want to see you thrive and live your healthiest life – and these basic self-care tips will certainly help you do so. And remember, Dr. Gena Chiropractic, conveniently located just west of Fort Lauderdale, believes that your health is in your hands – but that ours are here to help!