Balancing the Four Levels of Self-Care: My Journey to Ideal Practices

I divide self-care into physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels.

For example, I know I need to practice more physical ones.
I want more discipline in terms of physical activity and a change in the quality of nutrition.

I see a vast area of development in this regard, so I work with a nutritionist (you could read her posts here recently), body and yoga instructors.

But I still need to get the ideal model of self-care practices on the physical level.

If we’re talking about the mental — here I’ve got a perfect way.

I choose what I read, what I watch, and what I listen to, even each song. If it’s something sad, violent, etc. — I turn them off.

I choose what to load into my brain. I know well that the brain is just a computer; what you load into it’s what it produces.

If you put shit in it, it will give you shit.

I try to take care of my emotional level: figuring out how I feel and what triggers me. I’m good at taking care of myself in that regard.

And spiritually reviewing my values, asking myself questions time after time:

- what am I living for?
- what is important to me?
- who is important to me?
- do I give the world as much love as I want?
- am I supporting my loved ones enough?

Values and principles are about the spiritual level for me. That’s why I regularly review them, meditate, and work with the Teacher.

If you imagine that self-care, as in other spheres, has a wheel of balance — my physical level is the one that is limping the most.

Oddly enough, it’s the one that should be at the core, but it’s the one that’s the hardest to build a relationship with… yet.

What level of self-care do you need to pump? Physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual?

Hard to understand what is lacking and which area you should delve into? DM me.