How to take care of yourselves during COVID-19 pandemic?
The outbreak of coronavirus has changed our lives in not one but gazillions ways. Many of us are at home trying our best in staying safe by putting up indoors, but is that enough? Staying at home tends to bring up anxiety bouts, restlessness, and also at times an illicit temptation to binge eat, and definitely there is more to it.
With this unprecedented lifestyle shift, there is a prospective for the normalization so we’ve compiled a guide below on how you can get your routine back on track by taking care of yourselves during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are predominantly these three segments you need to work on for a healthy mind, body, and soul and once you are keeping up appropriately with these you are good to go in keeping up with this era of wearing masks and social distancing. Have a look at the ways of maintaining a healthy lifestyle:
Physical Health
- Stay active
Who said you need gyms to stay active? You can stay active indoors too. There are a lot of safe alternatives to staying active physically that you can practice indoors in the comfort of your homes. Aggressive aerobics sessions works wonders and helps you in keeping up with your activity levels. Also, doing push-ups, jumping jacks, sit-ups, and other exercises is a great way of staying fit and healthy away from the gym.
- Take Adequate Sleep
Taking a good sleep is very essential in maintaining your overall health as your mood and immune system are counting on it. A good quality sleep helps in running your immune system effectively thereby fighting off the infections caused by the novel coronavirus or otherwise.
Mental Health
- Positively cope with stress and anxiety
Well, undeniably these have been trying times for all of us, hence involving some positive coping mechanisms like meditation, reading, painting, or practicing any other stress buster activities can help us a great deal in getting past with the stress and anxiety bouts. If you have never been a fan of all this, use this era to bring about a change in your daily routine and embrace this new lifestyle in the new normal as you develop new and even better routines than before.
- Social Connections
Stay well connected with your loved ones, friends, and family as it helps heaps in reducing the chances of feeling down while you are in isolation. Utilize the multitudes of technologies and take time to get in touch with the ones whom you’ve not been in able to catch up with lately before the lockdown because of your busy lives as it is therapeutic and aids in maintaining social connections with the people you love and care about.
Diet & Nutrition
- Avoid mindless snacking
Now that you are confined indoors, it is very essential to take care of your eating habits and don’t fall prey to mindless snacking habits. Practice intuitive eating habits in which you eat only when you feel hungry and you stop eating when you feel full. Listen to your body and act as per that and don’t adopt binge eating practices or similar.
- Follow Well Balanced Diet
To help and support a healthy immune system it is recommended to follow a well-balanced diet that contains adequate amounts of nutrients as required by the body and also adopting good eating habits plays an important role. Also, make it a point to involve stress-busting foods in your diet like avocados, dark chocolate, soups, and tea as these are great in thwarting stress. Most importantly eat clean and prefer to eat fresh home-cooked meals.
- Include Immunity Boosters in your diet
With the incessant spread of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe it is essential to take every possible safety measures and precautions in order to avoid the contraction with the novel coronavirus by any means. Strengthen your immune system to fight against illness and to do so it is advisable to include immunity boosters in your diet.
Tea Ammrit is one of the most popular natural immunity booster that you should not miss including in your diet. It is Ayush Kwath (comprising tulsi, dal chini,sunthi &krishna Marich) enriched with the goodness of Mulethi and Bhui Amla, which helps in enhancing the body’s inner strength to fight infections including COVID-19 thereby improving the overall health of the body.
Multi Ammrit is yet another one of the highly recommended multivitamins and multi-mineral capsules by the doctors. These hard gelatin capsules help in enhancing immunity and maintaining the overall health of your body.
During this period of confinement, it is extremely important that we understand the adversity of the havoc created by the COVID-19 pandemic and make sure that each and every one of us is well aware of its repercussions if proper precautionary measures are not taken well in advance. To make that certain we’ve compiled a guide above that focuses on how you can improve your overall health and wellness amid COVID-19 that highlights mainly healthy eating habits, including immunity-boosting foods and supplements in your diet, doing physical activity, taking adequate rest, and most importantly taking good care of your mental health as it will make you more resilient.
Don’t forget we’re in this together and together we can fight anything that comes our way.