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This experience was really helpful for me to take a break from the world around me and help me destress. It was important because simple self-care can allow you to do better in many aspects of life. It felt really nice to create a small space where I feel safe. To create this environment I put a book, as reading is a way for me to escape. I also lit some candles with scents that make me happy, and I added a face-mask for the added feeling of taking care of myself. This small step in changing the environment around me can have such a large impact and generally help me live a more peaceful and organized life. Self-care is important and through this challenge I learned how easy and important wellness is, and that it overall makes you happier.

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During this experience, I began planting and maintaining the life of plants. I found this experience very relaxing and it helped keep me away from screens. Its nice to just read by greenery and in the sun (when its not too hot). Something that surprised me was that when I started to allow my body and brain to relax my achievements increased.

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For the wellness challenge, I gathered things that brought me peace- like plants and my favorite books- and put them in a brightly lit corner of my room. This process helped me gain further appreciation for things that I already had, but had not taken advantage of before.

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Finding a wellness sanctuary where I felt most at peace helped me in many ways, ways I did not know that I needed. My sanctuary is a cute beach house that not many people know about it.  Something that surprised me was how easy it was to find a place that made me feel at peace. I now know that feeling at peace can help in many ways, with my education and mental health.

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During this experience, I created a warm and peaceful sanctuary in my living room. Something that surprised me is how peaceful I feel sitting near the corner and how such small effort can impact my wellness for the better.

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During this experience, I made a peaceful sanctuary in the corner or my room. Something that surprised me from this experience was how simple yet impactful it would be. I plan to continue small things that bring me peace and help my wellness because I noticed such positive changes.

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Creating a word cloud and a sanctuary made me truly think and reflect upon what I value and what contributes to my wellness as a whole.

In creating both my word cloud and my sanctuary, I had to think about what exactly I define as mindfulness, and thus I automatically went into reflecting and contemplating the meaning of mindfulness for myself, and how it links towards wellness.

For me, the two have a direct relationship. Moreover, the ways in which wellness and mindfulness connect, based on what I had learned, were interconnected with wellbeing in general.

I usually have a lot of work, considering my rigorous class schedule and my membership of numerous organizations both in and out of school, so creating a sanctuary with the purpose of achieving a state of wellness was one that made me feel more positive and thoughtful overall.

In the future, I plan to add new words, images, etc. to my sanctuary as I learn more about myself and the environment around me, especially regarding what makes me achieve wellness in general, and what makes me achieve mindfulness in particular.

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Through this experience, I not only learned more about my passions and interests, but also myself as a person. I was surprised at how many habits I would like to keep in my life as they are having a net-positive impact on my Wellness journey - I was expecting to think of a lot more habits to change about myself. My concept of wellness (As of now, Wellness is the balance between relationships with others, academics/learning, and maintaining good physical and mental health. These components, when all are satisfied, place me in a positive and healthy state of life) predominantly stayed the same throughout my experience doing these two challenges. However, I was able to place further emphasis on the activities that made me happy than I have previously. I discovered that I am capable of finding a happy medium between multiple disciplines of life and its activities to become a more well-rounded individual. The item that meant the most to me in my sanctuary was probably my computer, as has encompassed the vast majority of what I do on a daily basis ever since I was a kid. I plan to continue my wellness journey by finding new passions and stepping out of my comfort zone more often.