Journey of Self-Love
How are you feeling?
So much is shifting right now and it can be hard for our bodies to catch up. Not helped when we don't listen to what we need to help the shifts and integration.
When we resist allowing ourselves to rest, when we resist (note to self) allowing our bodies movement/stretching/exercise/shaking, when we resist proper nourishment, when we resist letting go, when we resist listening and honouring our own needs, we can really feel the 'suffering' all the more for it.
Self-Love is being able to allow space for what you need. Not shutting yourself down, or ignoring what needs to be acknowledged or expressed.
Give yourself what you need.
Being in nature is so beneficial and important to help balance and ground the energy through these challenging times of change.
It helps to reset and calm the nervous system and bring us back into the body.
Ask yourself what changes do you need to make this year to better support yourself?
This Wednesday is Valentine's Day for those that choose to celebrate it. Interestingly, Valentine's Day was never originally about LOVE. Another date that has become very commercialised around one day!
Whether you do have a partner that you choose to celebrate this day with or not, let's not forget that LOVE starts with ourselves, each and everyday.
Self-Love.
With remembering that we are LOVE at our very core.
But, from the moment of conception to the subsequent painful experiences through life, we're taken further and further away from that truth that we are LOVE.
We close down, we build walls of protection around ourselves and our heart.
We learn it's not safe in this world. It's not safe to trust.
The journey of self-love, is the journey back home to ourselves.
We're the one's we're waiting for and it's an inside job.
To be able to love another without conditions, codependency, judgements, projections….we have to be able to LOVE and accept ourselves.
When we don't, we attract the kind of 'love' that reflects back how we really feel about ourselves and what we feel we are worthy of.
I spent too many years attracting relationships that showed me the lack of love and respect I had for myself.
It may have taken me to get to the ripe old age of 48 to have finally found the way in, but it's never too late!
And what a four year journey it's been!
When we realise the love we're really seeking is our own, we can stop searching for it outside of ourselves and with people and places that don't have it to give.
One of the big struggles I had, was accepting my appearance and my body.
I hated my body. I felt fat, old and ugly. That was a big belief and program I had running throughout my life, until I started the “I Love You, Me” practitioner training in 2020.
I had learned from an early age what was and wasn't acceptable, so I had to try and stay a certain weight to feel accepted and good enough.
And so, until 4 years ago, I used to measure and weigh myself everyday as a means to try and control my weight.
When we don't feel safe in life, we can seek to find other ways to feel in control.
This can manifest in ways like controlling our weight and what we eat, OCD, what we'll allow ourselves to do or not do for example.
Being in control, can bring that sense of safety (albeit a false sense of safety).
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I have so much compassion for the old me's, but I'm also very grateful for the new me that I continue to embody more and more each day.
I honour my body from a place of love and respect now. I want to nurture and nourish it, because that's what I deserve, that's what my body deserves.
It's not coming from a place of lack, avoidance or need for acceptance.
And that feels amazing!
So, how can you invite in more Self-Love for yourself this week?
How can you invite in more pleasure for yourself?
More joy for yourself?
Ask yourself, what am I starved of right now?
What do I need more of?
Do you feel worthy of your time and commitment to yourself?
Can you look in the mirror and tell yourself out loud, “I Love You, Me”
“I Love You, all Parts of ME”
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This will be helpful if you are prone to negative self-talk, have a lack of self-worth and confidence. If you're highly critical about your looks and your body.
Or, if you would just like to be more loving and kind to yourself.
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And remember to look in the mirror everyday and tell yourself out loud,
“I LOVE YOU, ME!”
