The Ultimate Self-Care Ritual
Permit yourself to practice the Ultimate Self-care rituals that prioritize your own standards of happiness. In today’s busy, over-stimulated world, taking the time to slow down can often feel overly indulgent and unproductive, but it’s actually the opposite. Allowing yourself the time and space to rest and revive is one of the best ways to stimulate clarity and increase an overall sense of happiness.
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Take moments to take care of yourself, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. To make the most of your me-time, create a ritual of consistent practices—routine nourishing and motivating habits that can be realistically sustained.
We’ve curated the ultimate self-care ritual specially designed to soothe and improve to get you started. Plus, a few of our favorite products.
Skin Brushing. A morning moment, dry brushing offers energizing qualities while improving the look and feel of your skin. Just 3-5 minutes will buzz your body’s connections. Skin is the human body’s largest organ. Skin brushing helps us keep it detoxified with a tantalizing and awakening effect—a healthy, invigorating way to turn sluggish and dull into bright, smooth, and glowing. For traveling, we love the Dry Body Brush by EcoTools. (EcoTools produces 100% cruelty-free and vegan synthetic makeup brushes, sponges, applicators, and bath accessories that are both stylish and eco-friendly.)
Oil Massage. Follow skin brushing with nutrient-rich, organic body oil for a calming, soothing effect that replenishes dry skin—locks in moisture and ensures glowing softness, firmness, and radiance. We opt for pure jojoba oil, as it’s the closest molecule to our natural skin.
HD Infrared Sauna Blanket. Our sauna blankets provide a slimming, detoxifying, and mood-heightening experience- perfect at-home or on-the-go—using radiant infrared heat to relax and revive the body. Reduce stress and anxiety, purify your system, and trigger a feel-good dose of your brain’s happiness chemicals: dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins.
Face Mask + Hair Mask. A nice, gentle way to enhance quiet, calm reflections. Face and hair masks put you into total spa mode and boost confidence in appearance. To save on time, let your hair and face masks set while soaking in your sauna blanket. Infrared heat raises your core body temperature, opening your pores to absorb face masks better. Also, the heat from your scalp will help activate and enhance nourishing hair masks. For the face, we love Clear Improvement Charcoal Honey Mask to Purify & Nourish by Origins—formulated with bamboo charcoal; this purifying mask deep cleans and draws out deep-dwelling pore-clogs, impurities, and debris, while golden wildflower and fermented honey nourish the skin. We look for castor oil for hair, which stimulates natural hair growth while restoring and moisturizing damaged strands and nurturing the scalp.
Breathwork + Meditation. Where consciousness and subconscious meet, focus on slow, intentioned, mindful breathing encourages deep emotional, psychological, and physical cleansing. We can participate in our breath and immediately feel the effects. Enter into meditative states, letting go of unhealthy thoughts, embracing clarity, establishing positive control of energies…effective and endlessly beneficial, regardless of busy schedules and limited spaces. Tip: if you’re new or prefer to practice with guidance, we recommend zoning out with headphones and the 1 Giant Mind app—great support for learning, growing, and developing your self-practice.
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MEDITATION
There are many schools and styles of meditation within Hinduism. In pre-modern and traditional Hinduism, Yoga and Dhyana are practiced to realize the union of one’s eternal self or soul, one’s ātman. In Advaita Vedanta, this is equated with the omnipresent and non-dual Brahman. In the dualistic Yoga school and Samkhya, the Self is called Purusha, a pure consciousness separate from matter. Depending on the tradition, the liberation event is named moksha, vimukti, or kaivalya.
The earliest clear references to meditation in Hindu literature are in the middle Upanishads and the Mahabharata (including the Bhagavad Gita). According to Gavin Flood, the earlier Brihadaranyaka Upanishad describes meditation when it states that “having become calm and concentrated, one perceives the self (ātman) within oneself.”
One of the most influential texts of classical Hindu Yoga is Patañjali‘s Yoga sutras (c. 400 CE), a text associated with Yoga and Samkhya, which outlines eight limbs leading to kaivalya (“aloneness”). These are ethical discipline (Yamas), rules (niyamas), physical postures (āsanas), breath control (prāṇāyama), withdrawal from the senses (pratyāhāra), one-pointedness of mind (dhāraṇā), meditation (dhyāna), and finally samādhi.
Later developments in Hindu meditation include the compilation of Hatha Yoga (forceful yoga) compendiums like the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the development of Bhakti yoga as a major form of meditation, and Tantra. Another important Hindu yoga text is the Yoga Yajnavalkya, which uses Hatha Yoga and Vedanta Philosophy.
New Age meditations are often influenced by Eastern philosophy, mysticism, yoga, Hinduism, and Buddhism, yet may contain some degree of Western influence. In the West, meditation found its mainstream roots through the social revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, when many of the youth rebelled against traditional religion as a reaction against what some perceived as the failure of Christianity to provide spiritual and ethical guidance. As practiced by the early hippies, New Age meditation is regarded for its techniques of blanking out the mind and releasing oneself from conscious thinking. This is often aided by repetitive chanting of a mantra or focusing on an object. New Age meditation evolved into a range of purposes and practices, from serenity and balance to access to other realms of consciousness to the concentration of energy in group meditation to the supreme goal of samadhi, as in the ancient yogic practice of meditation.
Meditation in the workplace
A 2010 review of the literature on spirituality and performance in organizations found increased corporate meditation programs.
As of 2016, around a quarter of U.S. employers were using stress reduction initiatives. The goal was to help reduce stress and improve reactions to stress. Aetna now offers its program to its customers. Google also implements mindfulness, offering more than a dozen meditation courses, with the most prominent one, “Search Inside Yourself,” having been implemented since 2007. General Mills offers the Mindful Leadership Program Series, a course that combines mindfulness meditation, yoga, and dialogue intending to develop the mind’s capacity to pay attention.
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