Kindness & Wellness | What Does it Mean?
We live in a world where wellness is a buzzword that often feels over similplified, too prescriptive and leaves us wondering, where has all the kindness gone?
Yet, when we think of kindness, we don’t all have the same values for it. And then we throw in self kindness and wellness together, then it’s a full on elitist party, where only the dedicated and the perfect fit in. Both these words have become over used in ways that have left many of us feeling unable to partake or feel included.
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Self kindness is not about doing the easy thing, it’s about doing the thing that gets you closer to your goals.
What is kindness & Self Kindness?
The core value of the studio is kindness, but we wondered what does kindness and self kindness mean to you?
To me, as a child, I was taught sharing is caring. That sharing what you have, wether that’s knowledge, extra chips on your plate, share it. Fun fact, I’m an only child so we’re always perceived as people who don’t share…
But, self kindness is another factor all together. In away, self kindness is a new term, and we often find as a prescriptive word for overindulgence – taking a long bath, or taking time out of the day when others are busy. We think of self kindness as often selfishness. But, as we break down self kindness, it does not have to do with actions, but rather the thoughts and way’s in which we speak to ourselves – are they filled with kindness? An easy way to think of self kindness, is the way you’d talk to a loved one, or the advice you may give them. When we think of kindness towards our loved ones, it’s interesting to note; kindness is helping our loved ones stay on track, supporting them; it’s not defined as letting them lose sight of their goals. Self kindness is not about doing the easy thing, it’s about doing the thing that gets you closer to your goals.
Wellness & What it Means
We are all striving for a life filled with wellness, but what does wellness truly mean? To us, it means many things, there’s no one size fits all. It’s a non prescriptive word that simply means, ease, order it’s the opposite of decease. For anyone striving towards wellness, don’t allow others version of it, of how it should look be your descriptive factor. Wellness is your own journey. Many of us, if we take a deep dive into the word, may find they don’t resonate with it, as somehow we have hallmark of ‘wellness’ to look a certain way. That there is a hard level of perfectness that we associate with it; if I do 5 runs a week with a PB of 25min for a 5km, then I’m healthy.
As we’ve delved deeper into the word and how it makes us feel, we’ve learned to us, we define it as feeling good in our selves – feeling well. When our values and our behaviours align we feel good, as we are living in synchrony
What are we getting to here? Well, simplify put; wellness and kindness is a feeling, it’s how we feel. It’s not what we do, what we eat. It’s about feeling well and being gentle with our thoughts. It’s how our internal world feels and how we interact with it.
