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Title: Nurturing Your Soul
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Author: Lael Johnson
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Nurturing Your Soul
Copyright 2005 Writer's Eye Advisory Service
Number Yourself: Count yourself as an important individual.
You are important. You need to be counted and acknowledged
especially when you are helping others. One way that you
can do this is by taking proper care of your self (having
enough sleep, food, exercise and relaxation). Then you will
have enough energy to help others and live the rest of your
busy life. Sounds too basic? It's supposed to be. It's the
basics that hold daily life together.
Understand Yourself: Think about how this fits into your
self-care. If you understand when you are hungry, then you
will eat and renew your energy. This happens with any
other activity, such as sleep or exercise. Likewise, when
you know your needs, you can take action to meet them,
instead of ignoring them, and making your helping work and
your daily life that much more difficult.
Respect Yourself: Believe in yourself, your talents and
your abilities.
Focus on the times in your life, when you know that your
actions or words helped someone else to change their life.
Helping others is not about being compensated by material
rewards. It is about being compensated by experiencing
intangible rewards, including high self-esteem, confidence
and satisfaction of a job well done.
Take Care of Yourself: To help others, you do need to take
care of yourself. I've already mentioned some ways that you
can do that. Work toward maintaining balance, emotionally,
physically, socially, mentally and spiritually in your
life. Then you will be able to help others with more
energy as well as not depleting your own resources.
Unburden Yourself: It's important to have support, during
the fun times as well as the tough times. A wide base of
support may consist of friends, family and community
resources (e.g. church, synagogue, support groups and
healthcare professionals) and keeping a personal journal.
There are many resources available to address difficult
areas that arise while doing your work. It's important to
maintain a balance when you are helping others. Make sure
that you are receiving support from others on a regular
basis.
Rule Yourself: Work regularly toward keeping your
internal life in order. Reach out to your support system.
Reach out if something is out of order, if you have a
question or concern, and yes, to celebrate the good times,
too. If you have a particular spiritual discipline that you
follow, make sure to devote some regular time to that
practice as well as to the community that shares that
practice with you. This will energize you and help you
keep your focus on the bigger picture.
Embrace Yourself: Hug yourself. Take mini-breaks and
vacations. Plan for fun times for yourself and with your
favorite people. Laugh. Take a humor break. Act like a
child. Surprise yourself. Surprise yourself again! Keep
smiling.
About the Author:
Lael Johnson, owner of Writer's Eye Advisory Service,
offers creativity coaching services and additional writing
resources. This article may be reprinted as long as the
text is unchanged and the author is notified by placing the
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Title: Nurturing Your Soul
Word Count: 475
Author: Lael Johnson
Email: journallady2001@yahoo.com
Article URL: http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/easypublish.php?art_id=1363
The article is preformatted to 60CPL.
Nurturing Your Soul
Copyright 2005 Writer's Eye Advisory Service
Number Yourself: Count yourself as an important individual.
You are important. You need to be counted and acknowledged
especially when you are helping others. One way that you
can do this is by taking proper care of your self (having
enough sleep, food, exercise and relaxation). Then you will
have enough energy to help others and live the rest of your
busy life. Sounds too basic? It's supposed to be. It's the
basics that hold daily life together.
Understand Yourself: Think about how this fits into your
self-care. If you understand when you are hungry, then you
will eat and renew your energy. This happens with any
other activity, such as sleep or exercise. Likewise, when
you know your needs, you can take action to meet them,
instead of ignoring them, and making your helping work and
your daily life that much more difficult.
Respect Yourself: Believe in yourself, your talents and
your abilities.
Focus on the times in your life, when you know that your
actions or words helped someone else to change their life.
Helping others is not about being compensated by material
rewards. It is about being compensated by experiencing
intangible rewards, including high self-esteem, confidence
and satisfaction of a job well done.
Take Care of Yourself: To help others, you do need to take
care of yourself. I've already mentioned some ways that you
can do that. Work toward maintaining balance, emotionally,
physically, socially, mentally and spiritually in your
life. Then you will be able to help others with more
energy as well as not depleting your own resources.
Unburden Yourself: It's important to have support, during
the fun times as well as the tough times. A wide base of
support may consist of friends, family and community
resources (e.g. church, synagogue, support groups and
healthcare professionals) and keeping a personal journal.
There are many resources available to address difficult
areas that arise while doing your work. It's important to
maintain a balance when you are helping others. Make sure
that you are receiving support from others on a regular
basis.
Rule Yourself: Work regularly toward keeping your
internal life in order. Reach out to your support system.
Reach out if something is out of order, if you have a
question or concern, and yes, to celebrate the good times,
too. If you have a particular spiritual discipline that you
follow, make sure to devote some regular time to that
practice as well as to the community that shares that
practice with you. This will energize you and help you
keep your focus on the bigger picture.
Embrace Yourself: Hug yourself. Take mini-breaks and
vacations. Plan for fun times for yourself and with your
favorite people. Laugh. Take a humor break. Act like a
child. Surprise yourself. Surprise yourself again! Keep
smiling.
About the Author:
Lael Johnson, owner of Writer's Eye Advisory Service,
offers creativity coaching services and additional writing
resources. This article may be reprinted as long as the
text is unchanged and the author is notified by placing the
title of the article in the subject line.
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