I promised everyone a blog on what it means to be grounded, but I thought I would save that for next week since it was just Valentine's Day and it feels worthy to talk about love.
I know it is a cliche to say that you can't love anyone until you love yourself, but I really feel it is true, and I also feel like we can't receive love if we don't know how to love ourselves. Of course, loving and honoring ourselves is a path and not something that is instantaneous, so loving and honoring the people in our lives and being loved and honored by the people in our lives are equally a paths that we deepen along the journey of life.
So, we talk about loving ourselves and what does that mean? We all know people who love themselves in an ego sort of way, openly loving their bodies and their personality in a way that is obnoxious and uncomfortable to be around. This is not the self-love that I am talking about. This is ego self-love. Ego self love is easy to identify. If you love yourself and think you are better than someone else, that is ego self-love.
Divine self love is loving and honoring yourself to be beautiful and brilliant knowing that everyone else's beauty and brilliance is equal to your own. "I am divine love, light, abundance, joy, health, wealth, peace, wisdom, beauty, and bliss. All of the world around me, all of the people around me, are also love, light, abundance, joy, health, wealth, peace, wisdom, beauty, and bliss. We are divinely one." As we affirm our divinity and love ourselves for it, we naturally enhance the divinity of those around us. This is Divine Self-love. We do not tell people around us that they are smaller or less than the beauty that we see in ourselves.
A lot of my clients fear loving themselves because they have been taught not to be self-centered and taught that is it selfish to love themselves. Being egocentric is what we truly were taught not to be, and this is a good lesson. When we are egocentric we either feel less than the world around us or more than the world around us and we will be very unhappy. We will compare ourselves to everyone else in our lives and judge ourselves and we will find little joy.
When we are divinely self-centered and in a state of divine self-love, we can access our divine truth in every moment. We know that we are love itself, and we know that everyone around us is also love itself and we find joy within us and joy around us. We love and honor our personalities, but we don't get lost in thinking that our personalities are the whole truth of who we are. We love and honor our strengths and our weaknesses and are constantly open to grow, but we don't judge ourselves. When we don't judge ourselves, we naturally don't judge the people around us and we find harmony.
It is a natural act to love ourselves, or to be love itself, and let the love from within us overflow into our lives and into the lives of everyone that we touch. When we affirm the love that is our truth, then naturally we see love, give love, and receive love in a circle of light. We naturally bring love into our lives in multiple forms and we naturally know how to love and be loved.
When we affirm, "I am love itself," we affirm this for ourselves and for the world around us. Practice this affirmation and report back to me how it changes your life.
Blessings and Happy Valentine's Week.
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