Self Care
From the physical aspect, we encourage everyone to drink more water, get more rest, make better choices nutritionally and exercise regularly. We place special emphasis on ridding the body of stress. It is difficult to separate our physical selves from our emotional selves and when we talk about stress, we cross the bridge between the two. Without stress the body can heal, and with it the body cannot survive.
Overwhelmed by the Pressures of Life ? If the pace of life doesn’t overwhelm you, then the pressure will. I saw a cartoon the other day that made me laugh out loud.
Two raccoons were on a deserted highway in the middle of the night reading a billboard advertisement for an insomnia clinic. The faces of the raccoons registered deep concern as they read the two questions on the billboard: Do you have dark circles under your eyes? Do you stay awake at night? The raccoons had nothing to worry about—except, perhaps, about people who drive as fast as they live. But we do. Why do so many of us have dark circles under our eyes and find that we cannot sleep? It’s the pressures of life. For many of us, there is just no more breathing room in our lives. Our lives are full to the brim. Yet every day brings more commitments and more pressures that demand to be squeezed in. Pressure can come to us in two ways. It can come, first, from our own conscious choices in life. God designed us as human beings to carry a certain amount of pressure. But we are finite. “We are but dust,” says the psalmist (Psalm 103:14). And too much pressure makes our heads ache, brings pain to our chests, and sets our nerves on edge. We simply are not equipped for too much pressure.
