Tag: well being

• 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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• Earning Vitality

  Schedule your health and well-being first.

  Everything else can wait.

  The world is not going to make time for you to take care of yourself.

  You must do that.

  Life is not going to accommodate your needs unless you prioritize them.

  This requires planning, focus, and discipline.

  And most of all, it requires effort.

  If you are not actively working to improve your health and well-being, you are losing them.

  You may not notice this now, but nature makes no concessions.

  Your vitality is not a right.

  It is privilege that must be respected, tended to, and earned every day or else it is forfeited.

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  April 29, 2023

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• A Solid Foundation

  Integrity alone does not guarantee happiness, but it does give us a solid foundation off of which to seek it. 

  Lack of integrity, on the other hand, puts our emotional and psychological well-being in the hands of others. 

  And the truth is, even the most well intended people cannot take care of us in the ways we always need. 

  ‘A Solid Foundation’ by Robert Van Valkenburgh

  HOLISTIC BUDO: As in Life, so too in Budo. As in Budo, so too in Life. 

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  June 27, 2022

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