self-love in manifesting

It's up to us to build ourselves up. It's up to each of us to be our own best friend. I think there is something powerful in becoming your own life coach. I think it begins with how we talk to ourselves and treat ourselves. If we beat ourselves up and scare ourselves how are we to flourish and live a joy filled life?

Have you ever made intentions, but questioned whether you deserve what is on your list? Try this first thing when you wake up in the morning, say to yourself, I love myself several 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. Feel it in your heart chakra.

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. This is a powerful moment to stop and say, I love myself. Look for lessons in the situation and move forward. It's easy to love ourselves when we've achieved a goal or did something we feel good about, but it's when we make a mistake that we need to hear it the most.

Also, notice how loving and patient you are with others when you have given those gifts to yourself.

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.

Try reading the words again aloud and pay attention to how you feel. Words have energy and I am sure you will feel a shift in your energy as you read the words aloud. 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.

My wish for you:

May you have love and peace in your heart. May you fall in love with yourself and your life. May you remember always how loved, protected, supported and guided you are. May you be gentle and kind with yourself. May you feed yourself with nourishing thoughts, food and activity. May you send love to every person you meet or pass. May you send love even to those people and situations that are troubling you, for they are gifts providing lessons to be learned. May you treat yourself as a divine child of the universe, because you truly are.

Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some other external form. - Eckhart Tolle