Do You Fill Your Cup First?
Greetings steemit explorers,
Back in 2006 I began studying with a consciousness that would tell us they were communicating with humanity at this time in order to help move our collective consciousness from one of fear to that of free will and free choice. It was an interesting journey I went on that lasted for about 6 years. During that time I completely changed my life around and one of teachings that has stuck with me to this day was that of putting oneself first. Something that was counter to how I was living my married life at the time.
The example they gave was the following:
See yourself as a cup and that which fills the cup is love.
If your cup is only half full, then the most you can give to another is half a cup.
If your cup is full, then the most you can give to another is a full cup.
But if your cup so full of love that it overflows, then you can give to others from the overflow, whilst maintaining your own full cup.
Do you fill your cup first, or do you continually give to others whilst neglecting yourself?
Cheers.
That is a profound way of looking at it. I've learned something similar on my journey too, that also is your cup is filled with dirtiness you must also empty the cup so that it may be fill with full love. Sometimes you might need to empty the cup over and over till the water that flows is clean and loving. We have to able to work on the self so that when you share the water, it isn't dirtied.
Thank you for stopping on by. It's an interesting situation we all find ourselves in as we travel along our individual journeys. Our experiences and beliefs, shape the way we see ourselves and those around us, and in retrospect we may have wished we had made different choices along the way. But all we can ever do is the best we can, based on the awareness we have at each point in time. The more important thing is what do we choose in this now moment.
Yup, I agree. All we can do is embrace what has happened and learn from them. The present moment is all we have, best thing to do is do our best.