TLC, from the comfort of your home.

Has the Cabin Fever hit you yet?
Purple Empaths are here to help keep your spirits up mentally, physically and spiritually.
These lonesome days may feel boring and unproductive but it is actually a chance for us to work on ourselves.

We’ve come up with a fun daily activity to keep your ‘at home’ journey blissful.

Introducing: The ‘ At Home_TLC’ Card Deck.

#HealYourself with some tender loving care, This activity helps replenish your body, Focus your mind and calm your heart.

Let’s Begin!

First off we get creative!
We are going to be making the TLC cards ourselves.
We’ve put together a list of TLC activities for you:
1. Bubble Bath
2. Bake
3. Meditate
4. Read
5. Watch a Movie
6. Jam Session
7. Get Arty
8. Write a Love Note to Yourself
9. Write a Love Note to the World

Cut out equal sized pieces of cardboard and start illustrating an activity on each card. Once done, at the back of each card, write “today’s TLC”

Take your pick!
Spread out your cards like so:

Let your intuition guide you, the card you pick is your TLC activity for the day.

Tips and recommendations for our TLC activities:

1. Bubble Bath
We recommend salt baths. Ordinary salt will do, toss some in, and rejuvenate. Salt removes the negative energy and toxins your body retains. You may add natural fragrances or essential oils you find suitable for your body.
Take a deep breath and exhale all of the stress; allow the water to heal you.

2. Bake
During this period, we should be keeping a solid and basic diet; use groceries wisely and eat sparingly. That being said, every now and then, we can treat ourselves to something delicious. Take it one step at a time and enjoy your baking experience.
We will be uploading easy and yummy recipes on our social media platforms, so keep an eye out for those.

Here’s a little sweet something for you to bake.

Rice krispies and date treats:

INGREDIENTS:
125g butter
125g dates
1/4 cup desiccated coconut (optional)
1/2 cup castor sugar
3 cups rice krispies

METHOD:
Melt butter and sugar,add in chopped dates,turn down the heat to medium and stir.Once a mixture add in the coconut and rice krispies. Transfer to a baking casserole and cut into squares.
Let it cool and munch!!!

3. Meditate
We encourage you to incorporate breathing exercises into your meditation. Our respiratory system is the most vulnerable right now and so we need to build strength in our lungs.

The 4 – 7 – 8 technique
• Breath in through your nose for 4 seconds.
• Hold your breath for 7 seconds.
• Now exhale through your mouth for 8 seconds.
Repeat this for about 3 -5 times along to some music or sounds you find relaxing.

here are some YouTube videos that may be helpful:

4. Read
Feed your mind some positivity, adventure, emotion and the unknown; Relax and read a book.
Here are our 10 picks!

• The moon and sixpence – William Somerset Maugham
•Cosmos: A personal voyage – Carl Sagan •Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
•The handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
•Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
•To kill a mocking bird – Harper Lee
•Atomic habits – James Clear
•The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
•The fault in our stars – John Green
•The monk who sold his Ferrari – Robin Sharma

5. Watch a movie
Popcorn, Blanket and Action!
Here are our top 10 favorite movies:

•Parasite
•Inception
•Forest Gump
•The sixth sense
•When Harry met Sally
•Edward Scissorhands
•Marley and me
•Me before you
•last holiday
•Ratatouille

6. Jam session
Dance the boredom away!
Turn on your favorite playlist and get active.
Have your own zumba class, freestyle dance off or an entire Broadway show; All, at home.

Here are our favorite spotify playlists, click the buttons below to view playlists

7. Get Arty
Express yourself through art. Paint, draw, doodle or knit; transform your emotions into art.
We recommend: Art therapy
Take a look at this website for art therapy exercises:
https://intuitivecreativity.typepad.com/expressiveartinspirations/100-art-therapy-exercises.html

8.Write a love note to yourself
Fall In love with yourself. Write love notes to yourself and keep them in a box, on days you feel down or ‘unloved’; open up that box and read those notes to remind yourself to…love yourself.

9. Write a love note to the world
The most Important one; Tender loving care to the world. We heal through each other, when we love others we feel happy, blissful and content.

Check out this great initiative:
http://www.forgood.co.za/campaigns/volunteering-in-the-time-of-coronavirus

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This is a simple activity yet so impactful, this will surely keep your spirits up during these hard times. If we could clear up our energy and just be a little bit happier during this period, our empathic relationship with the world will be more positive and healing.

Take care of yourself, take care of others, take care of our planet!