Simple Healthy Habits That Promote Wellness

Swathi Kategaru
4 min readMar 31, 2022

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We as humans, tend to develop habits that we feel can help us lead a healthy lifestyle, but eventually, due to the work and hustle, we make those habits tough to maintain and end up losing them.

Whether it’s quality time spent on a walk or drinking and eating mindfully we feel overwhelmed and exhausted to maintain small consistent habits without thinking those small habits could add up and produce a great result in the future if we are consistent in maintaining them.

Below mentioned are some of the healthy habits which are very simple to include in our lifestyle but create a big result!

Drink A Glass of Water in the Morning

You might feel tired and stressed due to the daily tasks, drinking a glass of water after you wake up makes you feel calm and helps you to be hydrated, and keeps your body in a positive mood.

Stretch Your Body

Stretching your body has its advantages which make your body feel at its best. If you are continuously sitting while working, try to stretch your body in between and let those stretches do their work for you!

Eat Mindfully

We always tend to eat while watching Tv or indulging in other work and allow everything to let into our stomach without thinking about what it can do to our body. Try to eat a balanced meal without checking up on other things so that you can eat and watch what you are eating mindfully.

Get Enough Sleep

Every human needs at least 7–8 hours of sleep. Having a quality amount of sleep enhances your productivity and maintains a balance in your life.

Sleeping well reduces your levels of anxiety and stress.

Smile at Yourself often

We greet people with smiles whenever we meet, but we often forget to smile at ourselves. We rush to work every day to hustle without even realizing to start the day with a positive smile.

Always remember that whenever you smile at yourself in the morning, you start to generate positive thoughts which will reflect on your whole day.

Smiling helps you to kickstart your work to keep you in a good mood.

Practice Gratitude

You might achieve everything you require, but still, you feel that you are not enough. Well, we all come across these thoughts every day that makes us feel anxious.

Track your Steps

Start tracking your step count in a day. Tracking your steps keeps you feel active throughout the day without making you feel lazy.

Have an app that helps you to count your daily steps.

Start doing it with a small step goal and eventually you may feel that it is easier to achieve more with your daily progress and helps you achieve your fitness goals.

Get Some Sunlight

Everything on the planet relates to energy and everything we do also relates to the energy we have. We should get as much as sunlight possible to track our overall energy.

As this source of energy is free, having it at least even for 20–30 min can do wonders for your body. It helps in reducing the risk of your body's illness.

Remember that you do not have to do everything at all.

Start by doing small things and eventually, you can see the progress!

Start by doing it at your own pace and at your own time.

Balance is the key that helps you enjoy promoting wellness!

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Swathi Kategaru

A freelance writer to help your Wellness, Fitness & Self improvement brands level up with my content for your business