"Care is love in action.... The capacity to care in human beings and other living creatures is an expression of love that is marvelous to behold. You may wonder why we even need to balance our care: After all, isn’t caring as boundless as our capacity to feel it? That is true for many people, but it is not unusual for most of us to take our caring to excess from time to time. When the care we give to a sick relative, a friend going through a rough patch or a cause dear to the heart causes anxiety, guilt, anger or a feeling of being drained, these are warning signs of Over Care. It is quite common for any of us to occasionally over identify and over attach ourselves to the object of our caring, especially if it involves someone we love. The draining cycle begins as we over identify with a situation, an issue, or a person we care about. In other words, we identify too much. We begin to over care and want to see things go a certain way. We get over attached to how we want things to turn out. As a result, we’re less able to let go and we become obsessive." HeartMath "Understanding Care"
Posted on: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 08:43:48 +0000