Connecting with your daily need for nurture requires you to embrace the concept of holism. Let’s start by first looking at the meaning of nurture as it relates to your life.
According to principles defined in my recent book Holism Movement, nurture is the mind aspect of the body, mind, and spirit dimensions. Nurture is the sustenance surrounding the mental quality as it combines with physical nourishment and spiritual fulfillment.
Now what is holism? Holism is the theory recognized by Aristotle and other great minds showing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Applied to health, it encourages addressing our whole self, not just the physical parts of the body. Holism importantly acknowledges the vital role a healthy mind has on this nurture principle. Yet, it also embraces the energy of our spiritual self that lives, breathes, and has emotion.
So as you focus each day on attaining various support from within and without, remember nurture is not limited to nourishment of the physical being. Yet, do not ignore your need to thrive by enhancing your health with good food, pure water, and exercise.
Nurture also is not just fulfilling your emotional needs. Of course, you must satisfy your need to embrace and help others, along with your higher self and higher good in spirit.
The holism aspect of nurture reminds you it centers itself in the mind. Here lies the mental control of your thoughts to bring the true nurture of your mind’s language. Think of ways to develop mastery of a balanced mind through optimism. Look for the hidden opportunities that stem from impasse, lest you forget the amazing things you accomplish from a motivated mind.
An exercise to demonstrate the mind attribute of nurture is to start each day with a reading, prayer, or meditation that reflects your goals for the day. Notice where your thoughts take you. What can you accomplish today that leaves less undone for tomorrow? In addition, how can you nurture your day with a feeling of satisfaction and
purpose?
As you move through the day, redirect your thoughts during stressful moments back to your intentions. Find times to relax without wasting a moment. One way that may be helpful is to look at the coming hour, rather than defining the whole day. When off track, ask yourself, “What can I accomplish this next hour?” The ease with which you can plan an hour at a time MAY AMAZE you, alongside your overall daily organization.
End each day with a review of what the day has brought. Repeat the reading, or verse, or prayer from that beginning hour. Here is how good habits form, in divergence to unhealthier mental behavior… via repetition in nurture, not patterns.
Continue to follow a daily plan into the week, month, and season. Now is your time to truly flower from a mind at rest. Plant your garden of ideas with loving thoughts. This, in turn, nourishes your family, friends, and nature of our shared world.
Each time you nurture your mind, you feed your body and touch your spirit. Go enjoy your day, a final thought in the nurture of holism.