Learning to Love Myself

Good Morning Folks!

And it is a Good Morning, quite possibly a Great Morning, but it's early so let's not push it.

I don't mean to quote Whitney Houston as much as I do, I'm sure I should be quoting, Jesus, the Budha, or some other deity more often. However, Whitney said so very much that resonates in my heart with her song.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest gift of all. She ain't neva lied.

I am learning to love myself and to keep it real, I will admit that it is much friggin' harder than I thought! Loving myself seems to start from the moment I wake to the moment I sleep. Learning to love myself is one of the biggest challenges I have undertaken.

Loving me is so much more than just strutting around with an over confident, inflated ego boasting about my greatness. Loving me is a much quieter process.

Quite has not been my forte, but I'm learning. Learning the grace of listening, the love of allowing another to have the focus. I'm learning the value in mindfulness and thoughtfulness before speaking. I have not mastered it, yet, but I am continually conscious of the work.

The biggest part of the work is showing up for myself.

I show up to love me when I wake up with gratitude instead of grumbling. I show up to love me when I eat healthy portions of healthy foods. I show up to love me when I care for my body with loving acts and exercise. I show up to love me when I discipline my mind to be present.

Ah ha! That last one, that right there, is the dang hardest one to do with any consistency. My mind is a swirl of thoughts and it can be a wild and crazy place up in there! For Real. When I let my ideas, grab hold of my thoughts, and those thoughts start working with fleeting emotions....chile', trouble can be a brewin'! Next thing you know, 'they' are against me, 'nobody' loves or cares for me, and 'I' am broken, alone, and miserable.

Showing up to love me stops that madness.

So I'm learning that the way to love me best is to work from the inside out. Catching the little negative ideas before they get a chance to blossom fully into destruction flowers is my goal.

It's about starting over. I start over a thousand times a day and in order to really love me up, I attempt to start over with out ripping myself apart for needing to start over in the first place.

The following is an excerpt from a Yoga magazine that I read for the first time almost a year ago. I keep going back to it...

In Responding to a monk who demanded to know whether the world was eternal whether an enlightened person reincarnates, the Buddha used the analogy of a man who has been shot with an arrow. If, before extracting the arrow and tending the to his wound, the man insists on knowing the name, family, village, and race o the archer, and what the arrow is made of, how effective is he in dealing with his injury? What needs immediate attention is the situation created by the arrow.

Starting-over practice is like this - you attend as best you can to the immediate situation that is challenging you, keeping yourself firmly rooted in the present. You shift your focus away from dwelling on those circumstances and characteristics that limit you and redirect toward recognizing the strengths from which you can realize your potential. You become a more effective person by simply learning to use your time and energy to do what you can do right now. By Phillip Moffitt

Alright folks that's all for me today. Enjoy starting over and starting over and starting over today.

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Much Love,

E~

 

 

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