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Dear Friends,
What's the greatest gift you can offer this Valentine's Day?
The gift of loving yourself.
Loving Yourself doesn't mean waiting til you've created the perfect relationship, the perfect job, the perfect kids, the perfect life to be worthy of self-love. Worthiness is something you're born with. It means trusting that the Universe is conspiring on your behalf to help you see yourself more clearly, to understand your needs more vividly, to know how to empower yourself with a stronger conviction of the heart, and how to express yourself in an authentic and kind way.
And just how does the Universe go about this task of helping us to wake up?
By constantly offering us opportunities.
Unfortunately, these opportunities come disguised. They're usually wrapped in something like depression, anxiety, stress and conflict; things that tend to make you go "hmmm" and when left unattended fester and continue to come back time and again. Each of these opportunities heightens our awareness, our internal radar, our intuitive body, and increases our ability to receive the Universal guidance & direction. But all too often we negate these feelings by numbing ourselves in an ever increasing multitude of ways, including the overprescribing of anti-depressants.
When we can sit with these feelings. When we can be with them rather than resist them. When we can investigate them more fully rather than avoid their discomfort, we give ourselves a chance to explore the underlying meaning of these feelings and perhaps begin to unlock or uncover something that blocks us from understanding ourselves on a deeper, more intimate and personal level. When our understanding of ourselves increases, our ability to understand our needs increases, and along with that our ability to express those needs to the people in our lives becomes easier and more accessible. This is standing in your power.
We tend to feel better about life, we're lighter, kinder, more compassionate and are generally more fun to be around. Passion, exuberance and inspiration abound. When you love yourself more fully, you have more to offer your partner and your friends. You can then offer them the next greatest gift which is to help them love themselves. They open themselves to loving you more fully and become more available to receive your love. And so, Valentine's Day becomes a day when two people who love themselves enough, bravely and vulnerably open themselves to the Universe's teachings, trusting that what lies beneath the cloaked wrapping of a challenge, is indeed, an incredible gift. The best way to love someone is to help them love themselves. To a beautiful week.
In Love, Ben
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