Knowing your limits, the beginning of self-care.

 Knowing your limits, the beginning of self-care.




'Limits are objects to be overcome, and acknowledging them is like giving up and resigning.'


This is a general view of society where the negative aspects of limitations are emphasized.


This attitude towards the limits is proof that knowing the limits has never been considered a method of self-care.



 To take care of yourself, you need to change the perspective of looking at your limits.


Instead of focusing on comparing and overcoming limitations, you should be able to focus on knowing yourself you didn't know you were.


If you don't know your limits, you can kill yourself. If you know your limits, you can take care of yourself.


Comparing yourself to others doesn't matter.


The limit is the moment when we move from not knowing about ourselves to knowing. Knowing keeps me alive and takes care of me.


Knowledge is action. You can only protect yourself by knowing.


Knowing the limits is a good thing because it is an action to save oneself.



As each person has different talents, the limits are also different.


Each person needs to know their limits so as not to destroy themselves.


If you focus on 'handling' rather than overcoming limitations, the direction will change.


My primary focus is on what I can do with my limits and how well I can do it.


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In the past, it has been thought that five minutes in the water is superior to one minute.


The 'length of breath' was the standard of excellence. So, a person with a short breath is treated as a short person.


The desire to become a better person is aimed at increasing the length of the breath. Either way, you have to make an effort to increase the length of your breath. The key is not to deal with the length of the breath, but to 'overcome' it.


When looking at one's own limitations as an object to overcome, the excellence that determines the value of life does not belong to 'I'.


The value of life is not in 'me', but in 'what is given to me.


On the other hand, if 'handling' one's limitations and length of breath are viewed as a problem, the value and meaning of life are determined by the degree of excellence in handling it, not by 'one or five minutes that are 'given to me.


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Recognition of limitations is always provisional when what is given becomes a matter of handling rather than overcoming.


It means that my abilities do not reach that far, so I first focus on how to use those abilities. When I can use my abilities skillfully and well, I can move on to the next level, and I gain the courage and confidence to move on.


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The 'success' promoted by the world reverses this view of limitations.


You have to do something to know your limits, and the moment you do something, you feel a sense of defeat because the limits you realize are negative. From the moment you line up for excellence, everyone else except the one with the longest breath is a loser.


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Recognizing limits is the birth of something new.


But the world makes the acknowledgement of limits negative so that nothing is attempted.


The very possibility of the birth of something new in each person's life disappears.


 


Knowing the limits should be the subject of 'handling', not the subject of comparison and overcoming.


For a new birth, to take care of yourself, you need to know your limits.


Don't forget your own limits.

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