Loving yourself is the foundation of knowing thyself.
It comes first above all else. The saying you can only make another happy if you are happy yourself goes the same for love. You cannot love another until you truly love yourself. So, cultivate that love for yourself, deeply and earnestly. Respect and love yourself and don’t worry about vanity or the ego. With real love and respect for yourself the ego just dissipates on its own. The ego is there to separate you from your authentic and higher self and know this that your higher self loves you immensely! Cultivate self-love above all else! Get selfish for a while and take care of yourself. Get comfortable with yourself and look at yourself in the mirror every morning and tell yourself how amazing you are and “I love you to the moon and back”!
Love lives through us
Through our words, our actions, our beliefs, and our loved ones. For we are love.
Everything has ingredients, we can always add some or take some out. The universe is no different. The cosmic ingredients of matter…electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks, and love. In such whenever you begin to play with the ingredients of your life there will always be a cause and effect to your choices and actions. We are celestial beings born to create and build our lives on earth and spread love. We have a need to connect to divine love, heavenly hope, and celestial care but, this is just the ego striving for external validation. The only validation that truly matters is your own validation. You will only find true happiness, love, and inner peace once you turn within and look inside.
What anchors our hearts to this world? It could be so many things… our spouse, our children, our work, our purpose and a million other things that have captured our hearts on this beautiful planet. Allow our love to inspire us to do good things and don’t allow our love to tear us apart. Love can go terribly wrong sometimes and this is where the darkness has its chance to consume us but, just know if you steadfast with your loving and open heart… bigger and better things are waiting for you just around the corner. Love big or go home!
We all have fears and beliefs, some are true, and some are false but, non the less they affect us deeply at a subconscious level and our operating systems. We begin to conform to the beliefs of others, what we see on television, and begin to question even if we are worthy of our own love but, the fact is you are worthy of everyone's’ love, along with all our flaws and mistakes because they have made us who we are today. So let your heart explore, so you can discover who you are. Get closer to the ones who love you but, more importantly get closer to yourself. Don’t allow self-doubt to cause you to run away from yourself and miss opportunities to align yourself with the true nature of yourself and love. There are hidden costs in everything so in your attempts to relate to others and create your love stories just make sure something isn’t costing you the most important thing in your life…your health. Love exists beyond words and with health you can make as many attempts and mistakes to discover love as possible. Put yourself and your health first and watch yourself glow and shine brighter than any star in the universe because you are in alignment with it all.
Relationships don’t always work out. So, allow yourself to be alone and heal after traumatic experiences. In being alone you begin to understand the very nature of yourself and begin to face yourself. We don’t need to rush off to seek the company of others when we are deeply wounded. It’s okay to spend time alone. So, we don’t absorb others’ energy, ideas, and concepts all the time. We need to think for ourselves and cultivate a deep relationship with ourselves. It’s okay, to take time for yourself and forge your own healing and loving techniques. We are all different and there is no right or wrong way to do anything in life. The only way is the way you are happiest and most comfortable with… as long as you are making the effort towards forward progress.
Sometimes we need to take a leap of faith
into the unknown and terrifying in order to see how protected, loved, and embraced we truly are by the divine. Nothing in this world can destroy us!
People will only fight and try to prevent what they fear. People who are so entrenched in the darkness don’t know the difference. In their minds everyone is out to get them, everyone is the enemy because they have been hurt by so many, so many times. They believe the light wants to destroy them which can be the furthest from the truth. The purity of the light only wants to help and help those lost in the darkness. To guide them home and let them remember what it was like to be happy and loved again. The light doesn’t want more suffering and destruction for those who have suffered so much, they only want healing and the light to shine upon them once again. We forgive, we love, and we want to help. Your suffering is not necessary and please do not fear the light, for the light wants to build you back up and not have you cower in fear in the darkness anymore. Trust in the light and love.
Sometimes love and trust looks a lot like chaos to the outside world. But listen to those whispers that guide you. It’s not for the faint of heart. It is easy to trust when everything runs smoothly, and you are in a happy phase. It is when things fall apart, in your mind, in your heart, in your body, in your life, it is when there is more confusion than clarity, that is when we are asked to really trust. To trust the future versions of who we really are. To trust our loved ones that only have the right intentions. To be in the mud and stay the course with an open heart and curiosity, that is how you trust. We are all learning and healing.
How do we weave trust when we live in an unjust world? When we experience so much hurt and pain, for others for ourselves. It is so much easier to speak about trust than to embody it, to embrace it. You must, surrender, have hope, forgive, have compassion, have self-sufficiency. You cannot rely on others for this, that is the ruination of any relationship. It must come from within. Check yourself when you have doubts and come home.
I don’t have all the answers, beyond remembering we are part of creation and born of love. We are one. Returning to the land helps me remember trust, the reciprocity of giving, receiving, and relating. When you are struggling, I hope you can feel that love, that hope, that trust in yourself, that path. Despite what has been so far. May we all be safe, fed and nourished, and held and loved. May we find these ways and find another. Love & Blessings to you all.
Love Is the Answer
