"Love yourself unconditionally,
just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."
~ Les Brown

How many ways do you honour yourself?  Do you take a moment to acknowledge your creative achievements?  Do you honour yourself, or take a moment to appreciate your efforts.  Appreciating yourself first is integral to cultivating the beauty and importance of you.  Understanding your life lessons becomes an easier process when we can view life with eyes that recognize and forgive all the areas that need love and kindness.

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
~ Buddha

 
It seems selfish to say “love yourself” instead of “love everyone”, and for this reason we don’t hear this advice often enough, nor do we think to tell ourselves this important fact. You, in fact, must find the time to understand just how important it is to love yourself, a healthy kind of happiness and contentment that comes of accepting and loving who you are right now, no matter what kind of work needs to be done to improve and heal you.  Because when you put yourself first, with mindfulness and not with your ego, you start to love yourself in all ways, even your flaws.  You will quit your inner battles and you will become more kind and careful with not just yourself but with everyone.

Love yourself in every area of your life, your body, your mind and your general attitude.  When you do hear yourself slip and say: You’re fat, correct the thought with, you are beautiful, on the inside and out. If you hear yourself say something unkind like: You`re cheap…correct yourself by saying, you are generous and sometimes frugal. Love yourself; accept yourself for who you are right now.

The more you love yourself, the easier it becomes for you to spend time with yourself, and actually enjoy the silence of your own thoughts and ideas and personality.  But these actions of self-love also do one other thing, they signal the Universe that you deserve those things that you desire and want in your life and this energy allows the universe to begin to align itself in ways that will allow you to get what you want. This also begins to allow you to truly begin to love other people.  If you can`t love yourself, there is no way that you will ever be able to truly love someone else with a healthy and happy kind of love. 

Too many people don`t love themselves and bring huge insecurities into their relationships because they expect other people to show them how great they are and show them love.  The best gift you could give yourself is the ability to love yourself, enjoy yourself, and get to know who you truly are.  There will never be another you, so take the time and bond with yourself.


This is how you can start a new relationship with yourself:

Acceptance:  This, as usual, is the very first step in all journeys. The first thing that needs to happen is that you must stop trying to live an ideal or being someone that you are not. Be yourself, because you were created “perfect” by the universe, it’s just that you need to remember that.

If you want to change something that you dislike in your life or you ….just go ahead, because being aware and then changing a behaviour or pattern is a positive way of creating a difference and opening up the healing process for yourself. Whatever your issue may be, remember that you are not alone; in fact, there most likely are others who are feeling very much the same way and are in the same situation.  The only thing you need to do is to take action and solve your problem while you accept your present.

Mindfulness:  Is fundamental to knowing how to love you. Being mindful allows you to be aware and to search through your feelings to find the cause in the issues that affect you.  From that vantage point you can dive deeper into understanding the situation so that you can begin to take the appropriate action needed to correct your feelings or your struggle within those feelings.

Be present: If something from your past is lingering, do not allow that to affect your present which will ultimately affect the success of your future. Instead, allow this lesson to guide you into a new awareness and understanding. 
Being in the present allows you the opportunity to understand the moment you are in and how you feel within that moment. 

Be your center: When you love another person you move your center from you to her/him. As wonderful as this may sound, it isn’t a good thing. You, at all times, must be your center. When you love others, as you love yourself, without the attachments of negative thoughts or feelings, we begin to love in a way that is free and full of all of the best things that you may have to offer.
Keeping our center is not an easy process given the world we live in.

For so many generations we have lived with rules and standards of being, created by others as a valid and real way of existing, but these rules and standards are flawed and they do not allow people to hear their own needs and thoughts clearly. As we navigate through this life, remember to use your mindfulness at all times, be present and in the moment that matters, and remain centered at all times and always remember to love yourself before all else takes place. 

Take the time to honour yourself with the care that is needed to be whole and to be connected with this life that you are living…..Take your time…..Love yourself.

Namaste …. Love and Light ~

As the wind blows....My Soul moves....

The world of the Healer is one that I follow.  Silent at times. Still, when needed .... and always open to be guided by the energy, by the light ... by the Source ... by the Universe ~

To listen.   But not with my ears.  To hear all that is said, and all that is not ...

To know and to sense with my heart....

To become one with the energy of all that is life...feel all that is not easily felt .... To see all that is not easily seen .... to know all that is not easily understood ...

To be ... as I am ...

Today brings the journey of Healing .....

Namaste ... Love and Light ~