Blood Not Required 🌿 From Self-Sacrifice to Self-Empowerment by Alan… — Freedom Hypnosis ✨

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Blood Not Required 🌿
From Self-Sacrifice to Self-Empowerment
by Alan Cohen

My friend Lucy became tired, irritable, and ill. She was dragging herself through her workdays and family activities until she displayed classic signs of burnout.

Lucy went to see her spiritual advisor, who knew her history. He told her, “You are suffering from self-sacrifice.”

“Refusing to say ‘no’ has worn you down considerably,” the advisor told her. “Your major life lesson now is to recognize that your greatest contribution to the world is not the acts you do, but the sense of well-being you maintain. When you feel alive, joyful, and empowered, you help people far more than when you burden yourself with guilt-born obligations.”

Hearing Lucy’s story, I realized that I have often taken on tasks and meetings because I wanted to help people, but which caused me undue stress.

I have had to practice creating a healthy balance between service to community and wise self-care. A Course in Miracles tells us, “Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly.”

Take a moment now to consider how much of a role self-sacrifice has played in your life.

Now consider who you are when you take good care of yourself. You eat well, sleep well, enjoy soul-nurturing activities with people you love, get into nature, and your life represents joyful self-expression.

Helping one another makes the world more like heaven. But not if it makes your life more like hell. Your strongest contribution is the energy you are exuding.

You can be doing all the right things, but if you are feeling self-sacrificial, you are sapping life force.

The key to physical, emotional, and relationship healing is to tap into the stream of life force moving through you.

Lucy made two lists: (1) Stuff I Do Out of Guilt, Fear, Obligation, and Self-Sacrifice; and (2) Stuff I Do Because I Sincerely Feel Moved to Do It.

Then she began to methodically quit or diminish the items on List 1, and expand the items on List 2.

The next time I saw Lucy she looked infinitely brighter, healthier, and more alive.

You were born to be happy. When you place well-being at the top of your priority list, everything else lines up beautifully.

Then you get off the cross you never needed to bear, and inspire the people you love to live their fullest life.

Full article: 🌿 https://alancohen.com/blood-not-required/
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