WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF?

There's a lot of pressure on us. As an adult living in the city, I can feel it in my bones. I observe men and women. What I see is how we put ourselves under pressure... While we are constantly saying “Take care of yourself!” to each other, we are never actually taking care of ourselves. We are in a period when the bombardments of personal development always feel incomplete, the retrogrades never end, the eclipses are over us, and winter is on its way. Because we don't look like the models on social media, because we couldn't be with that beautiful woman, because we couldn't get in that car, because we couldn't have those photos taken with our handsome and muscular boyfriend on that vacation, because we couldn't get their salary.… The list is long but the life is short!

While walking with his fellow monks, Buddhist writer Jack Kornfield came across a massive rock. His teachers "Do you think this rock is heavy" asked. “It's very heavy, sir,” says Kornfield. While waiting for praise, the teacher says the following. “Not if youdon't carry it!”
Based on the stake in this lovely parable, I will say: Don't carry it! Don't carry someone else's burden, perspective and judgments! That's how you take care of yourself. How's your relationship with your own body? When was the last time you looked at yourself in the mirror with admiration? Just so you know, you're beautiful.

"Come on, darling!" I can hear you say.

Yes, you are.

Until you compare yourself to others. Everyone is unique in their own body, in their own soul. Everyone is matchless.

With its devotion to itself, it deserves to find its place and significance in the universe. As a plastic surgeon, I can make wonderful changes to your body and face, remove many scars, create tight and glowing skin, a tight butt, vibrant breasts, abdominal muscles, and even transport you twenty years back in time. These are the fortunate times when plastic surgery promises us all of this and more. Well, is your soul ready for it? So, can you return to the person you were twenty years ago, full of hopes, dreams, and joy? In times like these, I recall a lovely quote by my favorite author, Haruki Murakami.“After the storm has passed, you will have no recollection of how you survived... But one thing is certain; you will not be the same person who emerged from and returned to the storm.” What would it be like to volunteer to go in and out of the storm? Instead of fighting the waves, why not learn to surf? Take care of yourselves…