This is another beautiful excerpt of Melody Beattie's Journey to the Heart

Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don’t have to push yourself to give, do or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.
Seek and support your natural balance. Listen to your body, listen to your soul, and both will tell you what they need and when. If you aren’t certain what you need, ask. Ask your body what you need. Ask your heart what to do next. Ask God or the Universe to help.
Find the balance that’s right for you. Become sensitive to your needs. When you become stressed, depleted, out of sync, in need of healing, see help immediately. Nurture and care for yourself until you’re in balance once again.
Inhale, receive. Exhale, give back. Your natural balance is as necessary as breathing. The inhaling is the breathing in of life’s energy. The exhaling is the sharing of your resources. You wouldn’t expect to exhale if you hadn’t inhaled. So it goes with healing, with our life force, with our energy. You cannot give it out if you don’t take it in.
Find the balance of receiving and giving of the taking in of energy and the giving out of energy, that works for you.
Let the balance become natural
See how much more you do and are.
See how much better you feel when
you keep your life force vital.
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