First You
Hi there, I want to remind everyone to listen closely to what you say to yourself. How are you talking to yourself in those moments when you are alone, working, walking, driving, hanging out with friends, on the beach, working out, looking in the mirror, taking a shower. What do you talk to yourself about? How are you nurturing yourself. What do you focus on regularly? What do you say to yourself habitually? I think the single most devastating thing in the world is the lack of love most people have for themselves.
We critique how we look in the meanest way. We call ourselves stupid. We are impatient with the natural flow of our growth. We fail to honor what we want and need and give our power away to others. We seek what we refuse to give to ourselves from others. We take our health for granted. We refuse to own our truth in favor of what we feel will please others. We basically abuse ourselves on various levels.
A great way to gauge how abusive you are to yourself by how abusive you are to others. Remember, abuse takes many forms. There is energetic abuse, verbal, physical, psychic, etc… We tend to take out our feelings about ourselves on everyone else around us. When we put someone down, when we flip someone off, when we don't help someone who is struggling, when we call someone a name, when we imagine the worse for someone, we are bringing that energy to ourselves and showing the universe how we truly feel about who we are and what we deserve.
If you knew that what you did directly impacted the direction this world would take how would that change your behavior. If you knew that your very thoughts and the feelings around them created your reality, what would you do to adjust your attitude, focus your feelings and quiet the critic you take your queues from? What do you have to lose to start changing how you treat yourself? What do you have to lose to start to treat others the way you desire to be treated?
In reality, you are your mommy, your daddy, your sister and your brother, your best friend, your teacher, your lover and your lesson. You are your work. You are here to learn the depth of you and in that way you learn the depth of all. Try it… spend some time loving yourself, truly complimenting, praising, supporting, standing up for who you are. Expect great things from yourself. See how others transform around you, see how you transform around others. When we treat our selves like the guardians we are of our hearts, we stop taking our hearts for granted… hopefully.
Support is what we need between life and death. Let's start with being our own greatest source of support and watch our love be reflected in the world.
xo
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