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Be a lifelong learner; read and contemplate sacred texts and other sources of inspiration that take you deeper into yourself and out into the wider world. A regular regimen of nurturing helps you achieve a...

A regular regimen of nurturing helps you achieve a balance in your life between inner exploration and outer involvement, time alone and time with others, work and play. Feeling imbalanced - that things are out of whack in your life - is a sure sign that you need to step back and engage in self-care to regain your equilibrium.

Actually, we usually recognize our need for nurturing by its contrasts - feeling deprived, ignored and neglected. If you are starved for attention, most likely you lack spiritual sustenance in other areas of your life as well. There are also shadow elements associated with nurturing. We can be so involved in nurturing ourselves that we become totally self-absorbed. We can go too far under the guise of nurturing others, so that our caring becomes a way of controlling them.