Tag: health

• Spiritual Hygiene

  Your spiritual hygiene are as important as your physical hygiene.

  In fact, it is more important.

  if you are not taking care of yourself spiritually, your body and your mind will pay the price.

  Your spiritual health is the foundation for your physical and emotional well-being.

  Do not make the mistake of neglecting your body or your mind, however.

  You exist in this world for a reason and worldly matters require your unique care and attention.

  By making your spiritual health a priority, you will be made more efficient and effective in all other things.

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  SPIRITUAL HYGIENE
  By Robert Van Valkenburgh
  Meditations of a Gentle Warrior

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  July 30, 2024

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• A Living Protest

  If you want to make a change in the world, start by changing yourself.

  Make your life a living protest of that which you abhor by living well.

  Protest through goodness.

  Protest through kindness.

  Protest through forgiveness.

  Protest through peace and joy.

  The most powerful form of protest is to live a good life and to help others do the same.

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  A LIVING PROTEST
  By Robert Van Valkenburgh
  Meditations of a Gentle Warrior

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  June 14, 2024

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• Health And Service

  Take care of yourself.

  Take care of your physical, mental, and spiritual health.

  Take care of your personal and emotional needs.

  Do this so that you can be there for those you love.

  Do it so that you can be more effective in your service to others.

  A life of selfishness leads to physical, emotional, and spiritual sickness, but so does a life of self-neglect.

  In order to be of maximum service to God and your fellows, you must first be healthy enough to do so.

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  HEALTH AND SERVICE
  By Robert Van Valkenburgh
  Meditations of a Gentle Warrior

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  June 6, 2024

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• Be Kind To Yourself

  Be kind to yourself.

  Don’t be selfish or self-serving, but be gentle and loving toward yourself.

  Allow yourself the same grace and forgiveness you would a dear friend.

  Life is difficult enough without you making it worse for yourself.

  People are cruel enough that there is no need for you to be cruel to yourself.

  Stop setting unreasonable expectations that no one, least of all you, can live up to.

  Give yourself some room to make mistakes, to learn, and to grow.

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  BE KIND TO YOURSELF
  By Robert Van Valkenburgh
  Meditations of a Gentle Warrior

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  May 21, 2024

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• Balancing Needs

  What is best for the people around you is not necessarily what is best for you.

  This can be a difficult situation to find yourself in.

  Balancing the needs of others with your own is not easy.

  When others rely on you to take care of them, it gets even more complicated.

  Their needs can feel paramount to your own, and sometimes they are.

  But your needs cannot be ignored forever.

  If your emotional, psychological, and physical health is neglected for long enough, even if for the right reasons, there are consequences.

  And these are often not easily overcome.

  You must, therefore, know what your needs are and find a way to balance them with the needs of those around you.

  At times, this will mean prioritizing yourself, lest you become incapable of helping anyone at all.

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  August 15, 2023

  balance, health, needs, self care

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