Begin at the place where you find yourself. Are you struggling with a life-long desire for weight loss? The ups and downs of depression? A new injury? Are you pretty healthy, doing okay? Recovering sobriety? Or keeping it together while caring for a sick, elderly, or in need family member? The important point to remember is not the outcome or endpoint. The important point is remembering to be alive during your journey, conscious, breathing, and taking radical care of yourself even in the toughest of circumstances. Placing your own needs first provides the calmness within from which kindness to self originates and then emanates to others. Take time to be quiet, to breathe, and find center. Feel the energized emotional state and the raised consciousness as you connect with your spirit. As you treat yourself with kindness and respect, you give yourself an opportunity to heal.
Healing From the Inside Out
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Hi Annette,
Love what you say about placing your own needs FIRST! If I don’t , no one else will! When we are nice to ourselves, then it is so much easier to be nice to other people.
Just called a friend…..going to visit her tomorrow evening and share a bottle of wine. I’ve been planning this for a week or so, now have taken ACTION!
Happy New Year,
Kathleen
Learning to care for self has to come before caring appropriately for others. After all, a dry well can nourish no one. Enjoy your friend, enjoy your wine, and be safe! Happy New Year to you!
I agree with taking care of your own needs first, because if you aren’t taken care of, you can’t take care of others properly.
My fiance and I were talking last night about what we both want for the future and what we want to happen. He wants to finish fixing up his car so he can compete in races along with having his regular job as a welder and I want to finish my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology so I can get a job and then work on my Master’s (and beyond!).
He was also telling me how he would like to have a house next year and that getting a house is best and THEN we can get married. I definitely agree with him that its best to have a place of our own to share as husband and wife and not have to live with anyone else like we do now.
Dear Jill,
As we enter into this New Year and New Decade, I wish you and your fiance the best life together, filled with joy, adventure, laughter, abuncance, and love.
Love,
Annette
Thanks so much Dr. Annette! I wish the same for you as well.
Love,
Jill