A good physician friend was a family practice doc; He wanted people to be healthy rather than waiting to be sick in order to see him. He used medications and/or treatments in a way for them to be temporary measures until people were better at caring for themselves. What he meant was that they had to get better at satisfying and planning for basic survival needs and self-care.
Survival needs include the following 6 categories:
Air
Nutrition
Rest & Physical Activity
Temperature Control
Elimination of Wastes
Warm Fuzzies = Strokes or Units of Recognition. They are needs because you can't continue to live or function in a meaningful way if you don't get your quota.
Be aware of whether:
You do or do not recognize them as survival needs;
You do or do not act on your need for them;
You do or do not act on them effectively.
The next and best level of survival is when you plan for or anticipate the need. As you do so the quality of your life is enriched. Getting by is not enough. For example, you may well know that you need proper nutrition in order to survive. You may even eat and drink regularly which satisfies the first two requirements.
However, you may notice that you are hungry but decide that you can't or won't eat. Or you might decide to postpone eating because you're busy. Or you could eat food that isn't good for you and drink sodas or lots of coffee or alcohol. There are lots of ways to fulfill the recognition of the need and to act on the need while, at the same time, being ineffective or inefficient.
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