Imagine a love story that is so gratifying, so unconditional, everlasting, heart-opening…
This is the love story of falling in love with YourSelf.
Unconditional, because it’s not dependent on anyone or anything outside of you.
Forever, because once ignited, it can only deepen and strengthen.
Heart-opening, because bliss is visceral and magnetic.
Self-Love is the master key to cultivating energetic alignment with your True Self, which upgrades your identity and prosperity mindset to attract more abundance.
I didn’t have a concept of self-love until I started studying NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming. I’ve only known IT until then, and that was very externally focused.
Since then, I’ve been hooked on the topic. Self-love has always been the golden thread of all the work I do in the world, because it is the difference between the ego-mind or false self, and the True Self.
It’s a journey with no destination, just deeper layers of discovery and transformation.
What is self-love
Self-love is our Divine Feminine Energy of Being that balances our Divine Masculine Energy of Doing. Self-love is the driver that motivates us, inspires us, and influences our decisions and choices.
Self-love means fully accepting yourself and your life as it is at every moment. This implies that you know you are more than your external reality.
Your sense of self is derived from your capacity to love yourself and see yourself as a powerful creator who can have what you desire.
For creatives, authors, and coaches, this is crucial to stay in awareness and aligned with your True Self
Self-love becomes easier when you know who you really are.
Who You Are
So, who are you really? You are a Spiritual Being having a human experience. You are not your mind, you are not your thoughts, and you are not your emotions, words, or actions.
It is true that you have thoughts and emotions internally and behave by speaking and acting. However, it’s your responsibility to ensure that the frequency of your inner world is in alignment with what you want. This is free will. You have a choice.
Your external life is a hologram created moment by moment as a mirror of your inner life. What you think and feel moment by moment carries a frequency and brings you experiences that match the frequency.
It then pays to create an inner landscape that is aligned with love, abundance, and peace, and to maintain this frequency.
Self-Worth
Self-love means knowing and appreciating your self-worth. Don’t confuse self-confidence with self-worth. You cannot fake self-worth by anything external to you, like a new car, house, status, or the money you make. That’s all about self-confidence.
Nothing external can make up for feeling not good enough, not worthy, because it’s not your truth.
The thing is that self-worth is a given, and the truth is that you are unconditionally valuable, just because you are here.
Your Story
You have incarnated into this life with a story that originates from your previous lives and generations. The aspects of your story are reflected in the patterns of your energetic blueprint of Human Design and Gene Keys.
When you experience a spiritual awakening, you transcend these patterns and rewrite your story to reflect your new way of being in the world. The gifts of your shadows provide the continuous spiritual path to the optimal expression of your soul.
Self-love emanates from a profound understanding of who you really are and why you are here. You appreciate the power of your human story and how important it is to help others through their awakening. Your story in all its stages and phases shows others the path.
Most people experience several spiritual awakenings in their lives for their soul’s evolution.
How Do You Access Self-Love?
Connect to Your Heart
The only way to access your True Self, or Soul, is when you connect to your heart. And the only way to connect to your heart is when you are present, moment by moment.
When we become intensely present, and thereby still, close our eyes and smile, we instantly feel our hearts. It’s a wonderful feeling of love and peace. Do it now. Do you like it? I absolutely love it and tune in often. Even if you know it, we can’t do it enough.
Your heart is not only a pump to supply your body with blood. It’s an intelligence, a second brain that has more neurons than the brain itself. The more self-love deepens, the more your heart opens to let in more Light into your Being, the higher your frequency, the stronger your inner peace and inner freedom.
This higher frequency is the super attractor of prosperity and well-being, meaning more money, clients, joy, and fulfillment emanating into your external reality.
No wonder Love is the Greatest Force of All!
Surrender
To surrender doesn’t mean that you give up. It means that you accept this moment fully without resisting it. Resistance is created by the mind. The ego-mind does not like to surrender, because it has no presence in the present. It can only resist focusing your attention on the past or the future.
This is really an either-or situation. We are either present in the now and in our soul power, or we are identifying with the mind and feel miserable, doubtful, and fearful. Resisting the present moment is futile and only results in attracting more low-vibration experiences. So, identifying with the ego-mind serves no purpose to your well-being.
Being Present
Being intensely present in the now is a practice and a choice we make moment by moment. That means practicing self-awareness of your thoughts and emotions, and bringing your attention back to the present.
You then transcend the mind and observe the mind as the Infinite Awareness that you are. This is indeed a dedicated practice. It sounds simple, but it’s not easy.
From my own experience, it has been a bit of a roller coaster. Sometimes up, sometimes down. I then had the awareness that whenever I feel low, I’m resisting and of course identified with the mind. The ego-mind is very sneaky and subtle and before you know it, you find yourself in battle again.
Self-Image
Upgrading your self-image is a powerful shift because it’s the driver or motivator behind all your choices and decisions.
Because any identity is of the mind, and an illusion, why not create an identity that is aligned with your True Self? When the mind operates, and it will, direct it so that it serves you, instead of keeping you small.
Self-Talk
The conversations that we have with ourselves are the precursor to even thought. The messages we give ourselves about anything carry the most weight and are executed by the subconscious mind.
So, it pays to have grand self-talk. Cultivate the language of being your best parent, your best friend and biggest fan. You never want to put yourself down. You always want to be gentle, compassionate, and loving to yourself.
Here is where you write a new story about yourself, your work, your business, your family, your friends, your clients and everything else.
Daydream about the new you and use the grand self-talk to affirm this new way of being. Talk into the mirror, script a new life, all the while you treat yourself with the greatest respect and love.
Then walk your talk. Rehearse situations before they happen to set positive intentions on how you want them to play out. Revise and replay situations that did not go well. In other words, practice being the new you.
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How does Self-Love Impact You?
Self-love or the lack of, impacts your health and well-being directly, because you are energy and you are affected by energy frequencies.
Every cell in your body is tuned to the frequencies of your thoughts and emotions.
When you have persistent low-frequency thoughts and emotions of stress that are identified as part of your mind, the cortisol released into every cell in your body causes inflammation and eventually leads to disease. This also attracts more low-vibration experiences into your life, creating a vicious cycle.
What we do to others, we do to ourselves. Thus, avoid low-frequency behaviours of criticizing, comparing, competing, complaining, condemning, and blaming.
When you have persistent high-frequency thoughts and emotions of abundance that are aligned with your heart, the dopamine and serotonin released into every cell in your body create harmony and a sense of well-being. Essentially, every cell in your body is celebrating wellness. This also leads to attracting more high-vibration experiences of success and abundance into your life. It definitely pays to love yourself! Do you agree?
Practices of Self-Love
Practicing self-love pulls us out of the mind-identified false self.
I have found the best way to practice self-love is to make it a game. In other words, keep it light and don’t judge yourself for falling for your mind’s schenanigans. Everybody does. Just get back in the game again.
Being present is the ultimate goal and the prize is inner peace, joy and clarity.
Surrender to what is, or better yet, love what is, knowing that the external world is an illusion. No matter how much you want it to be different, it still is what it is. Offer no resistance and your inner peace raises your vibration. That way you don’t attract any more situations that create more resistance.
Don’t hang on to anything. Let go of anything and everything that does not serve you any longer.
Remember, what you resist, persist.
Practise gratitude for who you are and what you have, softens your heart and raises your vibration. Giving thanks for what you desire solidifies your gratitude mindset and accelerates manifestation.
Upgrade your Identity and become who you want to be, that is in alignment with your True Self.
Take ownership of your energy vibration, to have thoughts and emotions, words and actions of a high frequency. Remember, nobody can make you think, feel, say or do anything without your permission.
Forgive yourself and others daily. It’s like standing under a shower of cleansing light. It makes you feel lighter. Holding a grudge or judgment against anyone, including yourself, is like poisoning your body.
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