Practice

"An ounce of practice is worth more than a ton of preaching," Mahatma Gandhi.

So true. People's behavior is often much more revealing than their words, and can contradict what they say they believe. Only when one truly integrates their values so that their words and behaviors match are they maturing individuals. Sometimes we get some unusual help in developing this congruence from people who push our buttons. There is much for us to learn about ourselves from what pushes our buttons. Some deep healing that can occur. What in the act of caregiving pushes your buttons? For me it is to have something that I have carefully put somewhere relocated. Frustrating. It is sometimes hard to remember that it is probably not willful that he does this, but part of the disease process.