The year 2023 has just begun, and even if you’re not making new resolutions, it’s time to make a list of new things to try! What better way than to take time for yourself and refocus on your mental and physical well-being? Discover our 9 wellness solution ideas to test in 2023 to improve your well-being!
1. A digital detox to refocus on yourself
On average, French people spend 4 hours and 22 minutes per day in front of screens, according to the BVA Group survey on hyperconnectivity. Faced with this phenomenon, digital detox or digital detoxification is becoming increasingly popular.
Digital Detox? What is it?
Digital detox consists of getting rid of screens, a challenge that is far from easy to take on! The challenge is to abstain as much as possible from using screens (phone, tablet, computer, video games, television) for a defined period that can range from a few days to several weeks.
Screens fill a void and quickly take up space in our lives: they make us lose track of time and notifications constantly distract us. Moreover, they cause visual fatigue as well as mental and emotional exhaustion. Carrying out detoxification periods from time to time is interesting for improving your well-being this year!
The benefits:
- Improve your concentration
- Refocus on physical social interactions
- Reconnect with yourself, your feelings, your emotions, or your needs
- Distance yourself from the stress caused by overconsumption of digital media and social networks
- Better health: limit vision problems and have better quality sleep
This voluntary pause from screens is beneficial for your mental and physical well-being. It’s up to you to find your rhythm. You can take advantage of these moments to explore numerous activities (reading, meditation, sports, walking) or spend more time with your friends and family.
2. Use music as therapy
Since antiquity, music has been used for therapeutic purposes. Today, it is used in many care centers as a complementary therapy for its benefits. The simplest relaxation method: listen to music and do nothing else. Music has a real impact on our well-being and overall fulfillment. Music is considered a true anti-stress tool in daily life. Stress management, pain management, memory stimulation, boosting creativity and motivation, helping with falling asleep (well, it depends on the chosen music for sure!), generating positive emotions, its field of action is very wide to contribute to improving your well-being!
What music to listen to?
There are no particular genres; it varies from person to person. Whether it’s classical, lyrical, or funky, music brings calm, emotions, memories, motivations, it all depends on your feelings. However, some studies have shown that certain types of music promote relaxation and stress reduction: classical music, jazz, folk rock, and pop music.
3. Walking, a simple activity beneficial for body and mind
Walking is natural; humans are designed to be active. The government website recommends practicing at least 30 minutes of active walking per day, five times a week. To start walking gradually, you need to develop small habits. For example, walking to the bakery or taking the stairs instead of the elevator.
Forest walks, hiking, urban walking, sport walking, Nordic walking… The ways are different, but the benefits remain the same:
- Reduces the risk of diseases
- Tones the body
- Boosts morale
A simple activity that you probably already practice but that you can deepen this year to feel better.
4. Essential oils: a natural solution for your well-being
Can you smell it? Aromatherapy is an alternative and ancient technique that has positive effects on the body. It helps combat stress, relax, and contributes to improving our mood and physical state. Lavender essential oil (lavandula officinalis or lavandula angustifolia) is the best anti-stress choice! Thanks to its calming and soothing properties, it is ideal for combating stress, anxiety, depression, and insomnia. It is also used to treat headaches and muscle pain.
How to use lavender essential oil?
It’s important to note that it should be diluted before use as it is concentrated and powerful. There are several ways to use it:
- Inhalation: add a few drops of oil to hot water in a vaporizer or mister. You can also put a few drops on your pillow or a handkerchief to breathe it in.
- Bath: add 4-5 drops to your bath.
- Massage: dilute the essential oil in another carrier oil and use it for a relaxing massage.
This is the essential oil to adopt this year to maintain your well-being!
5. Coloring, a creative activity to take care of yourself
A creative way to reduce stress. Coloring, like painting and drawing, is considered an art therapy that has many benefits for mental health. There are many specialized coloring books that contain complex designs requiring a lot of precision. Coloring requires concentration, which allows you to abstract from the stressful elements that affect you. Concentration reduces the impacts of unpleasant emotions you feel. A real escape for your mind that has many benefits:
- Develop your sense of creativity
- Calm your anxieties
- Increase your self-esteem
- Externalize your emotions
- Regulate your heartbeat
- Soothe you
- Maintain fine mobility of the upper limbs
A true creative activity to cultivate your well-being that can be practiced at your own pace and wherever you want!
6. Discover the benefits of meditation on body and mind
Meditation is an age-old practice that has many benefits for your well-being. It has long been associated with spiritual currents before being practiced by a large part of the population. It helps calm the mind, helps better control your mental state, and manage stress. It’s a mental approach that consists of focusing your attention on the present. There are several types of meditation such as mindfulness.
The benefits of meditation:
- Helps calm the mind and focus on the present moment
- Improves sleep quality
- Strengthens brain functions
- Improves breathing
- Helps manage depression and emotional exhaustion
It can be practiced in a group with a teacher. There are also meditation retreats for people who want to devote themselves 100% to it for a longer or shorter period. You can also practice meditation alone; there are applications such as Petit Bambou to guide and accompany you in your practice. Meditation requires regular practice to obtain benefits: a 10 to 20-minute session several times a week to contribute to your daily well-being.
7. Morphée, a disconnected product to deeply improve your well-being
In continuity with meditation and digital detox, this sophrology and meditation box is the perfect tool to gently fall asleep. Rest is essential for your physical, psychological, and intellectual recovery; sleep is of enormous importance for your health. Poor sleep quality can increase the risk of depression, be harmful to your immune system, and generally to your health. It is therefore important to have restorative sleep for various reasons: it preserves your immunity, protects against depression, helps fight cardiovascular diseases, limits the risks of diabetes and overweight.
Morphée helps you fall asleep more easily and be more relaxed when going to bed or during night awakenings. Morphée has 210 meditation sessions of 8 or 20 minutes created by sleep professionals.
The advantages of the Morphée box:
- Fall asleep easily and quickly
- 100% disconnected without waves and without screen
- Generates deep and restorative sleep
- Practical to carry
All you have to do is settle comfortably, select your session and the voice that will guide you, and welcome to Morpheus’ arms to improve your sleep in 2023!
8. Wellness retreats to take care of yourself
There’s nothing like a wellness getaway to recharge and find your balance. Whether it’s to disconnect from daily life or recover from a difficult period, wellness retreats offer different activities to improve your physical and mental well-being: yoga, meditation, spa, healthy cooking, hiking, creative workshops, surfing… There’s something for everyone!
According to a study conducted by travel specialist sites: 59% of French people would be ready to treat themselves to a wellness stay in 2023. It’s time to pause our daily routine to recharge. These stays allow a change of environment and rhythm, which is perfect for meeting new people, discovering new things, and bringing out the best in yourself.
During these stays, you benefit from the expertise and knowledge of expert coaches and teachers, an excellent opportunity to experiment, practice, listen, and breathe.
What are the benefits?
- Decompress, release your tensions and stress
- Let go and relax
- Promote your mental comfort
- Recharge
- Meet new people
- (Re)discover yourself
Wellness trips are beneficial for your personal development. They allow you to know yourself better, recharge, and meditate. An exotic solution to improve your well-being in 2023!
9. Robotic massage: an innovative solution to improve mental and physical well-being
iYU®, our massage robot is a real innovation in the world of well-being! This technology combines expertise from massage professionals, robotics, and artificial intelligence. A multi-sensory solution that allows a relaxing moment in complete privacy and entirely personalized: adapts to your morphology, choice of your immersive sound ambiance, adjustment of pressure according to your feelings, choice of protocol adapted to your current needs!
iYU®, a robotic massage experience for you to escape
Experience new massage sensations while contributing to your well-being. IYU® allows you to soothe your muscular and mental tensions but also to decompress and recharge during a session completely adapted to your current need!
With several international patent filings, iYU® is available, since January 2023, in the French wellness center In Situ located in the Loire in Andrézieu-Bouthéon (Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region). A European first!
In Situ is a unique and innovative place dedicated to well-being, health, and beauty that uses modern techniques with high-end equipment made in France!
iYU® is a technology to test to improve your well-being for this new year!
Many other solutions exist to improve your well-being, it’s up to you to find the one that suits you best!
