Seeking Balance: Focusing Both Within and Without (WAS: RF Motivations and Behavior)

[Guest guest]

Hi Marc, and thank you for your very kind words of encouragement and

appreciation.

 

Service is analogous to eyesight: we see what we are willing to see and miss

all the rest. I live my entire life in service, every moment of every day.

AND I have learned to take excellent care of myself. Just as water is no

substitute for sunlight, so, too, service is no substitute for self-care,

nor vice versa.

 

I often observe that those who focus without, yet cannot care for themselves

all that well, experience some very deeply rooted, usually largely

subconscious, issues around their very right to exist and/or to be alive.

 

So to those who are preoccupied within, reach out. And to those who are

preoccupied without, turn within. Seek a balance between the two, over time

.... for such a balance reflects health, and to live otherwise indicates

less-than-optimal well-being.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

_____

 

marcospcv [marcospcv]

Sunday, October 14, 2007 1:14 PM

rawfood

[Raw Food] Re: RF Motivations and Behavior ... Interesting

Observation / Theory - What do you guys think?

 

 

Elchanan,

 

I always appreciate your sharp insights and your relentless, unselfish

willingness to share, educate, and engage in friendly discussion.

 

I agree with much of what you wrote below. It's helpful for people to be

able to " clean themselves up " before they are able to turn their attention

to other people. This is a logical sequence.

 

I also believe that some individuals, sometimes, turn this sequence around,

or use a hybrid approach. I have spent most of my life engaged in some type

of service / volunteerism. Some people turn outward, and in doing so

discover a larger purpose in life. This, in turn, can lead to greater

motivation to improve their own health. Formerly viscious cycles become

virtous ones.

 

I also know people who appear to have spiritual voids, in the sense that

they are in no way, shape or form engaged with making the world around them

a better place. Such people often lack the " why " to improve themselves; it

is not a question of " how. "

 

I would encourage anyone and everyone to reach out, whenever possible, to

noble causes, be they local or global, or anything in between.

 

Marc