DON’T GO SO FAR THAT YOU LOSE YOURSELF

Although helping others is a very effective tool in helping you gain perspective on your life, it’s also important that you not go too far.

If helping someone else results in you neglecting your own life, then it defeats the purpose of gaining a healthy perspective. Being of service to people should not mean sacrificing yourself. When you sacrifice in this way, you end up not getting over yourself but losing yourself.

Giving has nothing to do with loss.

Giving need only be sharing, and when you share, you lose nothing.

However, if you are avoiding your own pain or responsibilities in taking care of others, not only do you not develop or gain a healthy perspective but the help you are giving may actually be less effective than it would be if you were clearly giving to share.

This is because when we overwhelm ourselves with helping other people, we often become resentful, stressed, overburdened and even quite numb.

And when we give to others in a balanced way, we find ourselves instead of losing ourselves in the process.

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