Affirmations:
I take care of my basic needs first so I can care for
others.
I honor what I need to be full of what I can share with
others.
I respect my needs for a happy healthy life of love, trust
and choice.
I love myself with the best I know as an example for others.
What Do You Need?
Do you know what you need?
Do you get
what are your basics?
Do you
understand how to live well?
Have you
learned what to do to survive and thrive?
You need to breathe, eat and sleep.
You need to
digest and eliminate.
You need to
find a way to be safe and secure.
You need to
learn to belong someone somehow with someone.
To begin with basic survival needs, you can simply live like
an animal to breathe, eat and sleep.
It may be
you are unaware of how to satisfy these three needs for yourself.
Some let
someone else remind them to eat and sleep.
Some don’t
know how best to breathe, sleep and eat.
When you cannot take care of your own basics and depend on
others to survive, you are dependent.
When you
are dependent on others, you are still a child and haven’t become an adult.
When you do
not take responsibility for your own health and well-being, you will
vulnerable.
Vulnerability
often leads to emotional volatility, fears, tears and anger.
For well being, it is essential that we learn to get food or
grow food or make money to buy food.
When we
have not learned to earn, make or create what we need, we will feel anxious and
afraid.
When we
raise children to be dependent and unable to satisfy their own basic
needs, they will be afraid.
It is essential that we teach the basics to everyone.
Responsible self sufficient people know how to take care of
their basic needs.
Ignorant or
dependent people do not know how to care for themselves or others.
When we
raise a culture of people dependent on others to provide, there is great fear
and anxiety.
When people
are dependent and afraid, they are emotionally reactive and unable to think
clearly.
Within every home there needs to be nurturing and
nourishing, protecting and providing.
When one
part is missing there is lack, and neediness.
When no one
is nurtured, all feel hungry or bereft of the basic needs.
When the
nurturer is not nurtured, protected and provided for, all feel anxious and
afraid.
Basic needs include safety and security, provision and
protection, nurturing and nourishing.
When these
needs are met people feel safe and secure within their families and
communities.
When these
basic needs are unmet people feel unsafe, insecure, lacking and needy.
When we
neglect the basics, we create needy, dependent people who are afraid and unable
to take care of themselves and their families.
Each one of us can begin to learn to provide the basics for
ourselves and our families.
We can
become self sufficient and independent, confident and capable
Once we
meet basic needs we may reach out to others to learn and grow, share and show
loving kindness.
When we
feel lacking in self care, we do not dare to participate and contribute, teach
and share.
It is time we start with the basics.
Let us
begin with ourselves, our children and grandchildren.
I am loving
each one as we learn to love ourselves and our families well.
Blessings
for all Good for Goodness sake,
Betty Lue