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Revisiting Our Core Values - #4 Self-Care
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We are advised when flying with a companion, in the event of a drop in cabin pressure to place our own oxygen mask on first, prior to assisting other passengers. This is the underlying premise of self-care; ensure that we as students and practitioners are in our best form in order that we can be of service to others.
The following notes are from a presentation to nurses by Anne Day in San Diego, 2004. They are as valid now as they were then. Thank you, Anne!
A, B, C's of Self-Care
By Anne L. Day RN, MA, CMT, CHTP/I, AHN-BC (2004)
ASSESSMENT AND AWARENESS
- Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual
- We shift and flow every day in these areas. We need to check in daily to see here we need to strengthen ourselves for higher-level wellness.
BALANCE AND BOUNDARIES
- We have the most energy when we are in balance with the 4 areas of assessment.
- We must learn to give and receive and set healthy boundaries to insure time for nurturing ourselves and our relationships.
COMMITMENT TO WALKING YOUR TALK
- We must walk a path of holism and self-healing. This will speak louder than any words we say. The most powerful teaching is by example.
- The extent that you love and care for yourself is the extent that you can love and are for others.
SELF-CARE PLAN
List 10 ways to nurture yourself for greater balance and health in the four areas:
- Physical
- Emotional
- Mental
- Spiritual
Visualization exercise connecting to True Essence and how to make this look in your life.
- Make a commitment to self-care
- Clearly write this commitment, listing things in each area that you can do 5 days a week.
- Share this with another – make a commitment to check with each other in one month.
AWARENESS OF HEALING NEEDS ON 7 LAYERS OF ENERGY FIELD
Reference to Light Emerging, by Barbara Brennen, Chapter 8, p. 91-99
- First – Simple physical comfort, pleasure and health
- Second – Self-acceptance and self-love
- Third – To understand the situation in a clear linear, rational way
- Fourth – Loving interaction with family and friends
- Fifth – To align with the divine will within, to make the commitment to speak and follow the truth
- Sixth – Divine love and spiritual ecstasy
- Seventh – To be connected to divine mind and to understand the greater universal pattern.
Comments
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Wednesday, 29 November 2017Over the past two years a difficult family situation stirred up so much emotional chaos and resulting stress that I was forced, as it were, to take self care very seriously. Reading Anne Day's clear description of the thoughts and actions that nurture us, I realize with some surprise that I have, in fact, made self care a high priority during the past two years.
Her self care plan reminds me to look again at my habits and practices, to be conscious of the things I do for my own care and to avoid sliding into "autopilot" mode. Activities, people, thoughts and emotions that have served me well may need to change as I am changing. -
Monday, 22 January 2018
This is my year to find out who I Am. Thank you for these simple and helpful thoughts.
Kathy
As I read Anne Day's ABC's of Self-Care, I hear myself thinking that yes this is wise and basic advice, and that by practicing these tenents we can easily create and maintain a shift in our balance and well-being. I remember a time in my past when I heard or thought that this is easier said than done. However, by beginning to practice the principles of Self-Care, I now realize that I was able to allow a subtle shift in my perception. When I read these words of wisdom now more feel a connection to truth and a reminder to re connect with my life force as often as possible. My own shift in regard to this most basic but life enhancing principle serves to remind me that making a change or achieving goals may be as easy as "re-connecting" to self first and noticing how you "think" about it second.