The gastronomy sector is a familiar environment for me, my first contact with work was in a family café when I was 14 years old.
Since then it has been the job that has allowed me to pay for my studies in aesthetics. A dynamic job, it always keeps you on the move, but we all know that it puts us under intense physical and psychological stress
The home office was another profession that accompanied me during the healing time of my broken foot. It kept me mentally active and gave me the stimulus, but also led me to learn about the famous burn out.
These two experiences on my own skin, allowed me to understand how we can prevent stress levels from destroying our well-being.
3 tips if you work in the gastro
1. remember to breathe
During stress waves, remember to breathe, between orders, service and mise en place, remember to take at least 3 deep breaths, inflate your belly when inhaling and deflate it when exhaling. Take deep breaths of oxygen at the worst times
2. conscious movements
Turn everyday movements into conscious movements, look for the healthiest and most balanced way to make that movement, like a workout in the gym.
3. stress relief
Psychologists call it the facial feedback theory: the idea that facial expressions linked to certain emotions, positive or negative, in turn generate sensory feedback that can influence the intensity of the emotion itself. To put it simply, lifting our cheeks helps us to be happier, frowning can make us angry. Smile smile smile smile, infect everyone with a smile and don't let yourself be absorbed by other people's tensions. Clients, colleagues, managers let their tensions die when they meet your path, let only positive energy flow
3 tips if you work in home offices
1. H breaks
I call them little “human breaks,” if you work long hours at a computer you know for a fact that he will never ask you to take a coffee break, one of the reasons why the home office is the easiest road to burn out.
You are a human being and as such your body has needs. 15 min every 2/3 hours leave your desk, leave your phone, earphones and all technological tools...nourish your senses, with aromas ( , views (open window, go out to garden, balcony), perform stretching and lengthening movements (take look at the 5 Tibetans )
2. Frequencie
Create small routines, ritualize breakfast and lunch time, strictly away from your desk and screens (including your smartphone)
techonology is constantly emitting frequencies, which is why your body needs real energy showers. Walk in nature, hug a tree, listen to music you like, use essential oils (indipensable for example essential oil of litsea cubeba) spend time with your pets.
frequencies affect our nervous system so much that they alter our sleep.
That's why it's important to ban technology in the bedroom--turn off your wi fi router before bedtime and avoid leaving your phone on the nightstand.
great to wear a shunzite stone or keep plates or pyramids on your desk.
3. anti-stress
Massage, meditation, yoga, qi gong, yoga nidra, sound bath are some of the practices you can incorporate into your calendar to help the body release stress.
HYGGE SEELE is an anti-stress protocol I created by studying the effects of stress on the body.
1. Head and neck
the first contact starts with the reflex points hidden in the head
movements that aim to release tension in the neck, jaw and sense organs, allowing us to relax our thoughts and let ourselves go to relaxation.
2. The feet
According to TCM, the feet are our second heart, so it is essential to reactivate our roots, to allowing QI (life energy) to flow again, dissolving stagnation.
3. The back
our weak point, the first to be affected by rigid movements, accumulated emotions and pain.
After treating the three parts, the protocol ends with an energy rebalancing using Rei-Ki and a sound bath with Tibetan bells.
Relaxation so intense that you'll feel like you've been on a little holiday!
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