Tag: Building Resilience

Personal self-care includes activities that are part of the self exploration journey that aims to find our personal identity and enjoy every moment in our lives. If we don’t know ourselves, we cannot practice self-care; it is easy to focus on external things instead of going deep within ourselves. As such, taking the time to learn ourselves, can change how we perceive ourselves and the world around us.

Focusing on our spiritual self-care is equally important to other types of self-care. It involves activities that nurture our spirit and allow ourselves to reconnect with our higher self and raise awareness of who we truly are.

The times when we are truly happy or joyful often involve other people. Socializing is important for our mental health; positive social connections help reduce stress, which negatively impacts our immune system.

All of our emotions are necessary; even if one day you wake up with negative feelings, just allow yourself to accept them. Nonetheless, it’s ok not to feel ok. We are human beings and not robots; as such, we cannot be in exciting mood at all times. Life is like a cardiogram, with its ups and downs.

The metaphor that refers to the body as our “real home" or “temple” comes to highlight that our body is the only one we have throughout our entire life and thus, it is vital to fuel it properly and keep it well-nourished and happy.

People are often reluctant to prioritize their self-care because it is in their nature to put others first. Here is a way to re-frame this: it’s not about you. You need to prioritize self-care because you have people depending on you. Meaningful self-care includes making mindful changes in patterns of thoughts and behaviours that do not contribute to your wellbeing.

Just as physical fitness provides us with an increased ability to respond to life in all its richness, mental fitness helps in the same way. Mental fitness can be defined as having and maintaining a state of well-being and cultivating awareness of how we think, behave and feel.

A healthy cyber usage lifestyle includes limits on daily screen time to make sure that usage doesn’t get in the way of sleep and activities that are good for seafarer’s overall wellbeing.

Health crises, natural disasters and other unforeseen emergencies can strike anywhere and at any time without notice. However, investing in resilience within business can reduce losses and damages in cases of disasters and difficult circumstances, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seafarers have demanding tasks to complete onboard that require full concentration and awareness. Misuse of personal devices (mob phones, mp4 players, tablets) whilst on duty in the workplace may cause distraction with potentially serious safety implications, CHIRP warned in a recent video.