Instructions: 1.Place your hands on your heart center. 2. Breathe deeply for 60 seconds. 3. Smile gently – a Mona Lisa smile 4. Repeat to yourself, “I love myself exactly as I am, a work in loving progress.” When your monkeychatter begins about all your errors of judgment, failings and flaws, tell it to “shut…
Excellent and empowering article! Let Heather help you to appreciate the amazing YOU that you are and live the life you long for! Hugz, Gerry You are free to create the destiny you wish to live. You have free will, and as such, are not the victim of your circumstances. You have the key…
Hi everyone, The February newsletter went out today. I can’t cut an paste it here, but I will give you at least the little essay, “That Thing About Love,” which will also be the topic of my Sunday talk this week. Every month I include a little “Peace and Happiness tool, and this is the…
The funny thing is, the more I experimented with Loving and Blessing others, especially those who had hurt me, the more I liked myself and the less I felt like a helpless victim of fate.
Most of us were not taught as children to love ourselves and when the concept was first introduced to me (in my mid-fifties) at first it felt WRONG. But I know that if I was ever going to have successful relationships, I had to learn to love myself first and come to the relationship with a full…
“When you look in the mirror do see yourself with Love, or do you see the flaws you may have?” Kim’s wonderful piece gently takes us through the process of changing our negative thoughts and beliefs about ourselves – pretty important stuff!!!! Kim wrote this piece for The Wellness Universe blog. If you wish to thank her…
Jenny’s inspiring story is about abuse and disease and suffering and a near death experience – and about forgiveness and self-love and Spirit and deep gratitude for the gifts of life… thank you Jenny Here are her powerful words. Please go to the original to give her some love in your comments. Reblogged from The Wellness…
THIS POST IS ABOUT LOVE. More specifically it is about experiencing the LOVE that you ARE inside, the Love you are born as, and using that Love to heal the wounds you may have picked up during your time on the planet. It is about Showering Love on your Self. I used to think self-love = self-centered…
I got to thinking about the holidays; happens every year this time, lol. So many people are miserable at the holidays and pretend they aren’t. But as you know yourself, no one is saying. I remember those days. You look around and see how happy everyone else seem to be and wonder, “What’s wrong with me?”…
I can have an open heart and strong boundaries. Indeed, without healthy boundaries, an open heart is really quite difficult to maintain. This means time and space to attend to my own consciousness. We can’t change difficult people – or beautiful people’s difficult behaviors or addictions, mental illnesses, dementia, etc. Sorry. I still forget sometimes…
"We are love, we are one, we are how we treat each other when the day is done. We are peace, we are war, we are how we treat each other, and nothing more. " (The Alternate Routes, from the lovely song Nothing More)
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