Reading: I do it before going to sleep. I am lying on the bed then turn on the lamp and start reading for a while (depends on the book). 

I'm super excited to share my experience with you!

This week I had the opportunity to practice Yoga, a self-care technique that has helped me tremendously connect with my heart, soul, mind, and body.

I regularly practice other self-care techniques, one of my favorites is journaling, which I usually use to write down my intentions and positive affirmations for the week. Every Sunday I also take the time to write down things I am grateful for and meditate for at least 20 minutes before bed. This week I used this assignment as inspiration to pick up practicing yoga again, a self-care activity I really enjoy and haven't been able to do in a while. I practiced yoga for 45 minutes to an hour every day.

 

It was incredibly beneficial; it served as a mental detox, relieving any anxieties and clearing out all negative thoughts and worries.  It also helped with movement and flexibility in my body by decompressing and loosening up my muscles and removing tension and tightness from my muscles. It helped me connect with my inner self and brought me back to the present moment. I'm looking forward to keeping up with my yoga practice and achieving the ultimate goal of releasing blockages and feeling much more harmonious, at peace and liberated.  
I'm looking forward to reading about your experience for this week's reflection.

Thank you for taking your time to read my report from week 7 name this time self-care for teachers. 

My name is Danny D. Gomez,  I´m a high school teacher and I have been for about thirteen years now, I could say that the experience of teaching high schooler while it can be satisfying, it is also fair to say that it is very exhausting and tiring too, the problem with this is that you can transmit (sometimes unconsciously) this problem to your students  that  can experience an abundance of stress which can be detrimental to health, as well as learning. 

If we consider burnout as a problem in the effectiveness of students learning, teachers should consider that we must seek solutions to deal with this phenomenon. 

Stress management and self-soothing techniques are critical for surviving, specially if you are an active teacher, 

Here are a couple of things a do to deal with work-life balance and self-care:

Running because if you do it for at least 10 minutes a day can significantly lower your risk of cardiovascular disease. Runners lower their chances of dying from heart disease by half. After 10 minutes of running routine, I feel more alert and less stressed.

Watching tv because it’s something that I love doing a lot, not many things are more relaxing that watch a good movie, especially with your family.  

To put this self care technique in practice I set aside  some time without my kids at one friend of mine house and enjoy a cup of coffee quietly tasting every sip slowly while looking to the sky in the afternoon.

Doing this was very relaxing to me. Because at that momemt I freed my mind from everything and just enjoyed my coffee quietly while feeling the soft breeze blow. 

I Usually enjoy having a cup of tea or coffee or even some hot chocolate while seatting in a comfortable and nice  place. I Like to do this accompany most of the time with my three years old son 🙃 He takes some juice and seat with me as my accompanying. 

I put this in practice when I feel tired or stress by lot of work or some situations that make me feel bad, I take a time at week to watch anime or movie. In that time a take coffee and eat popcorn. I can be doing that for hours.

This one of my favorite things that I do, and to hang out to visit different places.

To do this was very relaxing to me. I usually do it. Because at that moment I felt very good, it so relax to me. I love to watch anime and movie and take coffee and eat popcorn.

This self-care technique was beneficial to me, because I feel better, more relax, with more energy. To do this for me usually is nice, all the things that I have are easier to do.

Why I chose myself care-technique? Because this technique it is very beneficial for me, it gives me the opportunity to concentrate and forget about what overwhelms me and stressed me, giving me the opportunity to smile, laugh and have a good time.

Here I am to explain and  show a Little part of my life. 

I have spent a few years using Reading routines to reduce stress of days at school. This has helped as well to  relax and to Improve my concentration and with something that nowadays is somewhat common: Overthinking. When I am so stressed or when I can not forget about something. 

I get home at night, I prepare a hot cup of chocolate or a cup of wine and I play an instrumental and  I travel to other places,  countries, to another life and to Identify myself to other characters sometimes. 

This  technique has helped me not only on overworking days, it has been good for me when I am on vacation, too. When I need to take advantage of those free days. It has helped me to disconnect from my teaching days, to planning, all of the things that teachers do. 

Now, I would like to show you some phases of my favorite book: 

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Caminando en línea recta no puede uno llegar muy lejos".

 "Sólo se ve bien con el corazón; lo esencial es invisible a los ojos".

 "Al primer amor se le quiere más, a los otros se les quiere mejor".

 "El sentido de las cosas no está en las cosas mismas, sino en nuestra actitud hacia ellas".

  

 Yes, impossible to not be immersed in those phases, imagine with those phases in a story. 

Thanks for reading me!

With love, 

Clarisa Amador