Who took care of you in your first year of life?
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at 10:55AM | Monica Williams Kind of a strange question, you might guess, however; please take a moment and ask yourself just that.
I am doing some reading/research on nurturing and reviewing the early stages of life and continue to find and re-member ways of being nurtured and how the concept of such a word- nurture- can feel so complex and foreign. Why is that?
Have you come up with the answer to the million dollar question of this blog entry?
How does it make you feel?
Would you be willing to look a little deeper into the recesses of your mind and perhaps ask your caregivers how they provided love and nurturing support? Did they use appropriate touch? Did your caregivers believe that too much attention as a baby “spoils” a child?
That can be so far from the truth. It simply cannot be! You were dependent on your caregiver(s) for absolutely everything, again, I say, everything! How could you be spoiled so young? You were attempting to develop a sense of trust and love.
If you are not sure of how this connection or perhaps lack thereof, was displayed, take a glimpse of your life just as it is now, and assess how you love.
Do you trust or have difficulties with attaching to people appropriately? I ask that you not judge yourself as you ponder the response, you can implement self-nurturing to help heal such wounds. You may want to try:
1)Giving yourself a hug daily
2)Writing “I love you," on your arm of course, with something that is erasable and pleasant to your skin and environment
3) Drink more water
4) Exercise
Of course, these suggestions may seem redundant, but don’t you deserve to receive the love and nurturing connection and attachment that this Universe has to offer? After all, the Universe owes you the support!
Please think about it, and go and love on yourself!
Namaste