30 Days of Self Care: Day Eighteen

 30 Days of Self Care:  Day Eighteen

Practical Self Care

Practicing good self-care means you’ll need to dedicate some time every day that would otherwise be spent on other people or activities, and begin spending it doing healthy, nourishing and enriching things just for you. You may not have been raised to think or believe this way. You may have grown up being taught to be kind, helpful, useful, compassionate, and thoughtful to others, in fact, searching for ways to do so. The narrative we heard as a child from parents, teachers, leaders and mentors, was not meant to be harmful. It was all part of their contribution into making you a contributing member of society and a “good person,” but somewhere along the line, we may have interpreted the message as meaning that being of service to others meant putting our own needs last. Carrying that same message into relationships, marriage, parenting, volunteering and caretaking, all results in one thing: the lack of self care. Then we can find ourselves sacrificing our own wishes, hopes, and dreams to make other people happy. Lack of self care can cause a lack of boundaries and self-control, and a need to please other people. You can't change the past, but you can begin today for a better way to take care of you.


Remember:  We must serve ourselves first in order to go out and better serve the world.  Trust that self care allows you to set healthy boundaries and reduce the need to please other people.  You are your best investment so take care of yourself.


DAY EIGHTEEN:  PRACTICAL SELF CARE

These are interesting times. Seems that while the world wants us to focus on fear and doubt, God wants us to lean into Him for peace and joy. Do not let the things of this world diminish your spark for life. There are many blessings and beautiful things all around us that we know are from God. He wants us to bring any doubt, fear, worry, anxious thoughts, sadness and any other depressing feeling or belief, all to Him. You have the joy inside of you that you are one of God's very special chosen. Keep your eye on the gift of salvation, reminding yourself that no matter what happens on earth, your joy will remain in you because you know where you are going next. Heaven awaits. So for now, enjoy this life. Eat, drink and be merry. And count your blessings, not your problems. God knows what He is doing so trust in Him.



BIBLICAL VERSES FOR PRACTICAL SELF CARE:
  • "I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God."--Ecclesiastes 3:12-13
  • "So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun."--Ecclesiastes 8:15
  • "Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content."--1 Timothy 6:6-8

ACTION STEPS

Here are a few ways we can cover our practical self care today: 
  • Hire someone to wash your windows.
  • Enjoy relaxing on a swing.
  • Design a new schedule book. You can print off sheets or buy one ready made. Fill it up!
  • Organize your spices. Bring the most used ones out to the front or create a place for them.
  • Get your hair done. Ask her to curl it and primp it up for a fun night out.
  • Throw out the old socks and buy news ones in time for the fall season.
  • Go to the thrift store and find something for your kitchen that you could really use.
  • Get your clothing needs, like missing buttons or tears, hemmed and sewn by a seamstress.
  • Go wine tasting.
  • Buy new sheets or a bedspread, or both. New linens can be so relaxing.

KIMALA'S  VIDEO ON THE BENEFITS OF A CLEAN BEDROOM:
(please watch from your computer if not visible from your phone)



Today, do something for your practical self care. Get out there and enjoy this life doing things that are pleasing to you.  Whether it be to organize your spices in the kitchen or try wine tasting, make sure you are carving out some time just for you.

Have a blessed day, Kimala


PS.  Don't forget to go over to our Facebook Private Group:  Splashed in the Spirit, LLC and post your comment on the Day EIGHTEEN Self Care post!  Let's encourage one another.

"Rise UP! You were Made for More!" ™ --Kimala

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