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Self-Responsibility & Love
Wellness is like a bridge supported by two piers. Each pier is crucial to the bridge's integrity just as the two principles of self-responsibility and love are fundamental to the process of wellness. In each case, the piers support a connection between two separate places, allowing for movement back and forth. This freedom to move between different places or attitudes, rather than rigid attachment to any particular one, is the hallmark of wellness.
Self-responsibility and love are primary expressions of life energy. Together, they form the foundations of wellness, and encourage the free flow of all other types of energy. If either principle (or pier) is weakened, living harmoniously (or traversing the bridge) becomes more difficult. When both are strong, energy dances back and forth, and the crossing is easy.
Self-Responsibility Means:
- Discovering your real needs, and finding ways to meet them directly
- Realizing that you are unique and the expert about yourself, and
- Expressing yourself, both your ideas and feelings, in ways that effectively communicate to other people who you are, what you need, and what you know.
Love Means:
- Listening to your own heart--treasuring your uniqueness and your inner wisdom
- Experiencing yourself as your own best friend, and remaining faithful to yourself, especially in the rough times, and
- Realizing your connectedness with all things.
With love and self-responsibility as the foundations of our being, living and wellness are synonymous.
Wellness is a dynamic process because there are seeming contradictions to be resolved, apparent oppositions to be integrated, infinite shades of gray from which to choose. Even though you are connected with everyone else, you are also very much alone, and singularly must make your own life and death decisions. This section explores how to live your life with self-responsibility and love, so that any burdens can be transformed into opportunities, and questions become the impetus for experimentation, for learning, for trusting, and for loving this magnificent and paradoxical creation--yourself.
Self-Responsibility and Self-Love is the 1st of the 12 dimensions of wellness in the Wellness Inventory.
See the wellness wheel below which represents the Wellness Energy System.
The Wellness Inventory is a holistic assessment and life-balance program designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The program offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into sustainable lifestyle change, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing.
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