{"id":13934,"date":"2022-12-05T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T22:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/preserve-your-sensory-and-physical-wellbeing-with-these-easy-steps\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:26:24","slug":"preserve-your-sensory-and-physical-wellbeing-with-these-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/preserve-your-sensory-and-physical-wellbeing-with-these-easy-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserve your sensory and physical wellbeing with these easy steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we encourage you to focus on Sensory and Physical self-care elements.<\/p>\n<p>Sensory self-care activities are intended to drive a deeper connection between you and your five senses, while physical self-care consist of activities that improve the wellbeing of your physical health.<\/p>\n<p>Both are equally important and achievable. Here are some steps to get you started:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sensory<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid crowds and loud noises.<\/li>\n<li>Create a playlist of songs that soothe and calm you.<\/li>\n<li>Lie down on the ground for a few minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Light a candle in a dark room and sit in silence.<\/li>\n<li>Make (or treat yourself to) a fancy coffee drink.<\/li>\n<li>Find a shop with tea, coffee or spices and enjoy the free scents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Physical<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a massage.<\/li>\n<li>Go out and spend 10 minutes under the sun.<\/li>\n<li>Go to bed early.<\/li>\n<li>Know and use your self-soothing activities, like petting your dog or sipping hot tea.<\/li>\n<li>Roll it out. The benefits of foam rollers on the body are big.<\/li>\n<li>Take a long shower, dry your hair, and put on clothes that make you feel good.<\/li>\n<li>Bake something just for fun.<\/li>\n<li>Do some stretching exercises.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Start tracking your wellbeing through the free BE WELL App, available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/au\/app\/be-well-at-curtin-university\/id1554460013\">App Store<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.uniwellbeing.bewell\">Google Play<\/a>. You can also use Curtin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/students.curtin.edu.au\/personal-support\/counselling-guidance\/wellbeing\/\">Student Wellbeing Advisory Service<\/a> for free and confidential advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel good this Mental Health Month by improving the condition of your mind and body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4408,"featured_media":20435,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[149],"class_list":["post-13934","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-wellbeing"],"acf":false,"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Self-Care-2.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Nikita","last_name":"Osckar","display_name":"Nikita Osckar"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 10:58:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/13934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/13934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=13934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}