When you’re juggling a-million-and-one responsibilities, it’s easy to let your wellbeing slip to the bottom of your priorities list. In an ideal world, we’d all have the time to practise mindfulness, go to the gym on a regular basis and eat three nutritionally balanced meals a day – but time restraints often make managing everything impossible.

For this reason, checking in with yourself every so often is so important. And today is the perfect opportunity to do just that.

29 February – also known as ‘leap day’ – may not feel different to any other day of the week, but the fact that it only comes around every four years makes it the ideal opportunity to sit back and reflect. While several cultures see the phenomenon as possessing bad luck (in Greece, it’s believed all marriages that occur during a leap year will end in divorce), others see it as a very spiritual time. Numerologists, for example, see leap day as a time of stabilising energy, providing an opportunity to build solid foundations.

Leap day is here, so make the most of the extra 24 hours with these 7 wellness activities