Its time to discover the life-changing benefits of a Self-Care Practice that will become a way of life.
To begin make a commitment to yourself, with a focus on finding your hearts desires, setting your intentions, living with a gracious state of mind, and remembering to breathe deeply will have you calm, happy, and focused as you enjoy every moment of your day’s even the difficult day’s will have purpose and will teach you more and more about yourself.
Let’s start with a few easy to work in habits I am listing below that will have a positive impact on your emotional, mental, and physical wellness.
1. Every morning take a few moments before getting up from your sleep to be grateful to 5-10 aspects of your current life. This could be your physical health, your children, career, friends, family, co-workers your relationships, get specific about these aspects of your life in gratitude, such as the way your partner, or friends always listen to you, or the work you do impacting your community, or clients that you support, doing this will help you shift into a positive state of mind, and when you do start your day your voice, and tone will be upbeat and energetic.
2. Set your intention in a 10-minute meditation in the morning after you shower, drinking a glass of water before you sit down for your mindful meditation will help your body apply the oxygen you will receive by breathing deeply through your noise and out your mouth. If you have children, this is a great time to also introduce them to mindfulness and set them up for a wonderful day ahead as well. While you are listening to your thoughts for the day in meditation set your intentions on what you want to give to your day, and what you want to receive from your day.
3. At the end of your day do this same routine, after dinner, and you have had your shower, go back into meditation for 10 minutes reflecting on your day visualize all the things that went well, be kind and compassionate for the lessons given to you, if your day was difficult this is a great time to just breath, and decompress to let all the stress go. Set your intention for receiving a good night’s rest, and thank your body for giving you all you needed
4. Before you go to sleep reflect on 5-10 things that you are grateful for, such as getting home safe, seeing your children enjoy their accomplishments, sharing a moment with your friends, or things that went well in your community, reflecting on positive aspects of the day will allow you to sleep peacefully.
Founder & CEO of Medical & Sports Massage
Certified yoga instructor | Dynamic speaker
Denise Leslie is the founder and CEO of Medical Sports & Massage. In 2010 the vision to create a space for facilitating wellness through massage therapy was born. By 2012, that vision was brought to life as Denise found the strength within to open Medical & Sports Massage in the Atlanta community.
In addition to a thriving business, in 2018, Denise partnered with East Georgia Cancer Coalition to offer oncology massage, what has become known as Hands to Heal. Along with her team of therapists, this not-for-profit program uses lymphatic drainage to helpthe body withstand cancer treatment and massage therapy to alleviate the triangle of stress in the mind, body, and spirit. Together, these treatments facilitate underinsured, uninsured, or financially constrained patients and survivors in the fight for their lives.
Denise pours her heart and soul into clinical massage. and often write about sport related topics. Denise hosts several events throughout
the year to support other small businesses and maintains. Denise offer corporate wellness programs for companlies that seeking to improve productivity and overall wellness of their employees.