The importance of taking care of yourself

Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

This quote is from Robert Thurman, the first westerner to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. But how can you come alive? Simply by taking care of yourself, let’s see how.

I am sure that you have realised by now that there are activities that nourish you and others which deplete you and, it goes without saying that one should concentrate on those which nourish and try to abandon those which deplete. Meditation and Mindfulness are tools which can cast light and help to clearly discern what is what. A daily practice of meditation