The truest love you will ever find is the love of yourself.
To love yourself is essentially an active expression of gratitude for being alive. It is saying, “Wow, thank you, thank you for allowing me to be here!”
It is saying I am worthy. I am enough. I am loved and lovable because look how much I love on myself.
It says to others, “Don’t even think about loving me any less. I won’t have it. Nope. We’ll go our separate ways. No hard feelings. You’re on your own love path too. I’m just clear about mine.”
When you love yourself and live your life from this way of being, all the stuff that comes up, the obstacles, the hurts, the crossing paths with others who may not yet know how to love themselves, it all becomes gentler.
When you love yourself, you talk to and relate with yourself in a way that allows you to be more at ease.
This supports you in being more self aware and caring with yourself because your nervous system already knows that it will be held and encouraged, not judged or punished.
When you love yourself and make decisions from this practice, you are telling yourself by your choices, how much you value yourself and your life. You are sending a message directly to yourself and to anyone you are engaging with, you are awake and present to the blessing of yourself and your life.
When you love, honor, and value yourself, just because you are here and are inherently deserving of this reverence, you feel safe and protected and therefore, can handle and respond to life’s twists and turns less reactive and more thoughtful.
When you love and take care of yourself, you walk with a generosity of spirit which allows you to be more forgiving and empathetic to others and situations.
You know that you don’t really know what is going on for the others involved. The generosity that naturally radiates from you is available because you are well, rested, and rooted in a deep self-esteem.
Maybe all of this sounds like a fantasy.
Or maybe some part of you feels this in your bones. Maybe some part of you recalls glimpses of yourself, feeling, and being this version of you.
This kind of love is like a return to Love, the love you came in as, now being practiced consciously as an adult. We have a lot more experience living outside this place, most of us. However, it is available and accessible whenever we decide to choose.
If you were sitting opposite of your little self, looking at her across from you, her eyes gazing up at you. What would you do??
You’d scoop her up and delight in her. You’d love on her like nobody ever has or ever could. Right?!?
YOU are her. Just a bit bigger.
LOVE her, love her now like nobody ever could. Because you know exactly what she wants and needs.
Your truest love.
You are your greatest accomplishment, achievement, goal, purpose, expression, dream and Love.
Just as you are.
Perfectly you.
Don’t take more time than you really need to see that…to see that everything absolutely wonderful begins when you finally see and accept yourself, in all of your fullness.
Because no thing is an accident.
You are completely on purpose.
Your life and your being here is to delight in yourself, and to touch others with your heart, your essence, your love. And you have already touched an incalculable number of humans with your beauty, your heart, and your essence.
How much more do you need to do to prove that TRUTH to yourself?
PS. This is for you. Everyone one of you. Please just replace the pronoun as it reflects you.