Taking care of ourselves means doing whatever is needed to "fill our own cup" and "include ourselves in our circle of compassion."
Keeping in mind the importance of our own well-being - in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions. Trying to do something every day to support ourselves so we can stay in balance.
--- We may well benefit from psychotherapy, which can help us clearly see and understand the unfinished business from childhood, which we may well have brought into our adult lives.
For example, this may include longstanding character traits which distort our perspective, such as co-dependency, aggression or narcissism.
It is not only our external world that is dysfunctional; we have emerged from this same world and have inherited some of these same issues. We can see the more advanced psychotherapies as a healing process that involves understanding and clearing away blockages which hinder our natural growth toward wholeness.
As such, they include helping us gain access to our innate potential. This occurs, in part, through a recognition and welcoming of our most noble qualities, as they emerge: creativity, courage, compassion, intuitive awareness, and spiritual aspiration.
In addition, effective therapy can help us to become aware of our inner emotional knots and past traumas, as well as the more sublime aspects of our being. In this way it will enable us to function more effectively as change agents in our world.
--- In yoga and Buddhism this process is known as purification: a transmutation of our obstacles, clinging, judging, and ignorance - into positive qualities: building our capacities for acceptance, awareness, the willingness to let go, lovingkindness, and the desire to help liberate others (See: article titled, Bodchicitta).
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