EXTREME SELF CARE THE ONLY WAY TO GO, WHEN ONE HAS LIFE WISDOM

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CORRECT YOUR EXTREME LACK OF CARE...

The title of Cheryl Richardson’s book:  The Art Of Extreme Self-Care.   This is what most people need to do, at least for awhile – in order to correct the extreme lack of care, the extreme stress, the extreme lack of self regard in the way one treats oneself.   Just trying something different, treating oneself with honor and careful nurturing shifts the table around so that the mind can get the idea that your happiness and your peace and your feeling good about life are really number one.  

You don’t have to buy the book to do it, but it’s only, at Amazon, $10.85.  Seems worth it, if you only get a few ideas or reminders on how to really care for yourself.  While women mostly are those who take on too much and put themselves last, in my opinion men could benefit from the same general idea (and will have to come up with some of their own, though a lot of the basic suggestions apply not only apply to women but also are workable for men).  

WE ARE NOT AWARE OF... KILLING OURSELVES

We’re often not fully aware of the extreme stress we put ourselves under.  Sure, we notice it and possibly say something like “well, I better do something about this sometime” (sometime when I have the time and I’m not so busy).    

We’re often not aware of the things we do to our body.  Just a little sugar to pep me up.  Just a few extra cups of coffee to keep me going.  Just a sweet, just a treat, just something to relieve me and have me feel good.  Oh, I’ll skip lunch, or breakfast or…

We are killing ourselves, some just a little at a time, many a lot at a time.  We are like gradually boiling frogs, we simply slowly boil to death in the comfortable water, floating passively as the heat is increased.  Of course, the frogs are smart enough to jump out when they are put into boiling water, but the small changes from tepid water all the way up to boiling aren’t noticeable.  That’s our lives.  Until we use the masterful strategy of “taking perspective”, we don’t “see” it – or we can wait for the “wake-up call”, where something extreme happens and we say “oh, yeah, if I keep doing this I’ll die”.  

So, while you have perspective now, while you’re looking at your boiling in the water of extreme lack of self-care, make commitments to do selected items regularly and schedule them in.  Items that are important but not urgent get put aside for the urgent.  Only by scheduling them in can the tyranny of the urgent be overcome.  (If you don't heed this, you might end up Living The Life Of A Gradually Boiling Frog.)

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

(If you want to go further continue on the web page:  Extreme Self Care.