USE YOUR UNIVERSE

It wasn't until I was in high school that I started to understand the word "deserving" and what it meant to me. I received a letter the week of graduation from a friend, her words were very sweet and touching. When I got to a line in the letter that read, "you deserve the best!", I immediately started to cry. Her words hit a nerve and I'll never forget how I felt in that moment. "I deserve the best?" I thought ... "YES! I deserve the best!" Many of us get to a point where we look back wondering, "When did I stop loving myself?", "Where did I lose my confidence?", "How and when along the way did I get to the place of settling for less than I want, for less than I deserve?" While it can be helpful for insight and understanding to pinpoint experiences that may have contributed to a lack of self-esteem, I feel it is wasted energy to focus there too long. What if every time we started to think about painful experiences we immediately shifted the energy to self love? It's up to us to build ourselves up. It's up to each of us to be our own best friend.

Try this first thing when you wake up in the morning. Say to yourself, "I LOVE MYSELF" twenty times. Raise your arms up to the heavens and shout it! When you're having a self-defeating thought break this negative habit by immediately replacing it with "I LOVE MYSELF". As you fall asleep at night, maybe you're thinking back on your day and find that you're criticizing yourself about something you did wrong or said. This is a powerful moment to stop and say, "I LOVE MYSELF". It's easy to love ourselves when we've achieved a goal or did something we feel good about, but when we mess up or make a mistake is when we need to hear it the most. Take the lessons learned to heart and move forward by saying, "I LOVE MYSELF". This may not feel good at first, you may need to fake it to you make it. But, why not vow to yourself to try it every day for a month. This month, February, is the perfect opportunity as it is dedicated in part to the love of a significant other. Whether you' re in a relationship or not why don't YOU be that significant other to you and gift yourself by saying, "I LOVE MYSELF".

Loving yourself is key in accepting that you do deserve the best!!! As Marianne Williamson wrote so beautifully in her book, "A Return to Love", "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

These words are so powerful! This excerpt from her book was also used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech. Read the words aloud and pay attention to how you feel. Words have energy and I am sure you will feel a shift in yours just by speaking those words.

"Who are you not to have it all?" Based on the law of attraction, that like attracts like, it serves you best by putting out thoughts (thoughts have a vibration, which is energy) such as, "I deserve the best and I accept the best now!" This is what I want to bring into my life:_________!". When using your Universe Order Pad or simply listing goals use the energy of, "YES! I DESERVE THIS! and YES! I CAN HAVE THIS!" That little voice of fear may speak up out of habit, but it's just a habit and it can be broken. Practicing saying, "I LOVE MYSELF" every day will help with this. I wonder what would happen if we collected all of the energy from negative behaviors (self-talk, spoken words, action) and made them positive? I bet we would be manifesting what we want like crazy! "What we want" are the key words. We're always manifesting, so watch what you're focusing on. The universe is abundant! The universe is not telling you that you can't have everything you want, only you are doing that, and the universe will respond accordingly. Offer up your order to the universe as if you are a queen or king on your throne. Know you can have it, know you deserve it, and allow the universe to bring
it to you.

FALL IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF!
BE PASSIONATE ABOUT YOURSELF!
YOU DO DESERVE THE BEST!

MANY BLESSINGS TO YOU!
I LOVE YOU!
And of course.... I LOVE MYSELF!

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