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Devotions
Devotions
Your devotion time and faith life matters greatly - for your own health and to those who look to you as the parent and leaders of the home.
Here are some apps and resources that can support you in your spiritual growth and devotional time:
Meditate and Reflect
Meditate and Reflect
In the busyness of life, work and navigating parenthood, it can be a real challenge to find time to pause, slow down and take time to reflect. It can be a difficult lesson to learn but to be at our best, we need to make these moments a priority.
We can create these mindful and reflective moments by practicing breathing techniques and engaging in meditation.
Here's how you can do it:
1. Find a quiet place where you can be still and comfortable for a few minutes.
2. Focus on intentionally being present in your surroundings and observe your senses. Ask yourself the following:
a) What can I hear? Listen for 3 things.
b) What can I see? Visually notice 3 things that stand out around you.
c) What can I feel? Start to notice the physical sensations around you.
3. Practice deep breathing and relaxation strategies.
Notice where there is tension in your body and focus on relaxing those areas and muscles. Perhaps you can start by relaxing your feet and move through all of your muscles, all the way up to your head.
Breathe in slowly through your nose and allow the lower part of your stomach to fill with air. Breathe air in for 4 seconds, hold the breath for 7 seconds and slowly exhale for 8 seconds. Repeat this cycle from 3 to 10 times. Notice how you feel at the end of the exercise.
Self Care
Self Care
As the picture indicates, look after you so that you can look after those around you. It is the same in general life, our well being as parents is important. If we as parents are not looking after ourselves then we are not able to look after our children.
EAT - Eating well and healthy is important to keep the fuel up in our bodies. so we have the right energy to deal with the day. Here are some tips for eating healthy and well for your self care.
SLEEP - Getting the right amount of sleep is important for us to be able to reset our bodies and brain. If we are tried we are more likely to be angry and also miss things that are important. Have trouble sleeping try this tips.
EXERCISE - this is a great way we can look after ourselves and stay ready to support others. We can even be doing this together and modeling great habits for our children. Here are 10 tips to start.
For some other great ideas regarding self care check these out
Happy and Healthy YouVersion Bible Study Self-Care
Beyond Blue Wellbeing Christian Self-Care
Need a place to start or lost for ideas try these 5 minute tips
Fun / not fun
Fun / not fun
Sometimes we need to take ourselves to the RTP Lounge Room and make our own chill out box.
It is important to know what your limits are and what pushes your 'big red button'. There will be times where the best thing you can do is take a deep breath, admit that you are the one not being fun, and put yourself in chill out.
Remember your children's brains are designed to watch you closely and mirror your emotions and behaviour; always check yourself first. That is why when a child falls if we react sad they cry, and if we react like it was no big deal they brush it off and keep playing. What are you reflecting today?
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