LOVE MONTH

For this month I decided to try and solve a problem I’ve had for a long time but never thought too much about because I was so used to it, and since February is the love month I decided to love myself by doing yoga every day for a month to de-stress and calm myself a little bit. If you know me you know that I get stressed easily, I over think stuff and if I don't prepare my self mentally before any situation then I just don't enjoy it. That is why I decided to do yoga every day for a month. I chose to do it before I sleep because it felt like cleansing myself at the end of the day, relax before bed and it was the only time I had in the day without interruptions. Because it was at the end of the day I would usually feel super tired and I would dread doing it but I have never regretted forcing myself because it would always feel good after. But I missed 7 days out of the 28 days of February, the first three days I was really sick and couldn't do it and the other four days I skipped were because I was really tired that I couldn't even think about stress and yoga, but being tried and documenting how I felt throughout this month inspired the challenge for the month of March. On the last five days, I decided to take an extra step in making the experience more relaxing so I would turn off the light in my room and turned on the fairy lights I also put on relaxing music and burn a candle. I have noticed four main things throughout this months experience I was defiantly less tense, It did not stop completely but I could still feel a difference. It usually takes me an hour and a half to two hours of me playing with my phone to fall asleep but ever since I started bedtime yoga I would be asleep immediately. It feels good to stretch at the end of the day after sitting at a desk for 9 hours. With everyday that passes I defiantly felt myself  get less stressed, even in the mornings which is my favourite time of the day, but on the weekdays that I know I have to leave the house I would sometimes get stressed for no reason that I sometimes can’t have breakfast but for the whole month of February I did not miss breakfast once. The funny thing is that on February 23, five days before the end of the month I was in a store and I was looking around at the ads they had on the walls and the salesperson came up to ask if I needed help because I looked stressed. I know controlling my stress is something that still needs work but I think yoga helped a lot and it was a great start to destress. In the end, I would say that I 100% recommend doing yoga before bed and I will still continue doing it, maybe not every day but most days. March’s challenge: Start drinking more water + not using plastic bottles. I'm doing something different for every month in 2018 so if you want to be a part of this or you were inspired by this and want to challenge your self with something else please feel free to do that and write about it then send it to me to share our

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