Being of Service - Part 3

Secondly, we can serve others.

When you are serving yourself, you will find that there are many others around you who have moved on from a self-serving mode of living, to helping others around them. They want to help you, because it is their joy to do so. It makes them feel good - it makes them feel empowered to help you. So you can start right in, helping others, by asking them to help you. Isn't that neat?

One of the biggest difficulties many people have is letting others help them. This is the human ego wanting to feel independent rather than admit we are interdependent. When you refuse to let others help you, you are denying them the chance to feel good about themselves.

You can relax your ego and be helped without feeling guilty or less worthy. Your turn will come, and you can serve yourself by letting yourself feel good about helping someone else. So the first way to serve others is to allow them to build their strength through service. To do that, you have to allow help to flow to you.

Of course, there is a more traditional way we can serve others. More about that another day.