Here's a few minutes to reconnect with truth from a three-principles perspective.
Welcome.
Today we're going to explore self-love from a slightly different perspective.
For me,
It looked like self-love was something I could get from the outside.
By doing the right affirmations,
By using the right tools and techniques,
By perhaps having the right kind of therapy.
In actual fact,
The self that we're talking about in self-love is a creation of thought.
Thought shapes our relationship with ourselves.
It's what we believe that passes through our head that creates whether or not we get a sense of loving ourselves or we don't.
In actual fact,
We don't really need to change our thinking to connect to the love that's there already.
Because the truth is,
That's who you really are.
My favorite quote on this subject is from Jack Pransky,
Who said,
All we are is peace,
Love and wisdom and the ability to create the illusion that we are not.
That illusion is created in thought.
It's really that simple.
So perhaps we don't want to be loving the self too much,
Because that's all our thinking.
That's what that really means.
Maybe we want to look more towards the truth,
That what's underneath our awful thinking about ourselves.
And trust me,
I've had some pretty horrible thoughts about myself over the years.
Underneath that is the truth of you.
There's moments when you feel calm,
There's moments when you're in a good feeling.
Have you noticed that the main feature of that is that you're not on your own mind?
You're not actually thinking about yourself at all.
You're not focusing on whether you love yourself or you don't love yourself.
You're just truly present.
In those moments,
You feel connected to yourself and you feel connected probably to something bigger than that.
From a three principles perspective,
Mind,
Consciousness and thought are the creative source of our experience.
When we believe our thinking,
Consciousness brings that thinking to life through the power of mind.
And we feel that.
But here's something really helpful.
Have you noticed when you believe those self-critical thoughts,
When you believe those striving thoughts,
When you believe those thoughts that say,
You're not really doing enough,
Are you?
They come with a feeling and that feeling is not very pleasant.
It may feel like resistance,
It may feel like tightness,
It may feel like stress and anxiety in the body.
And that's a beautiful pointer for you.
That's a pointer that's always there because that's what our emotions are.
To let us know that we are believing some thinking here that is not true.
Just in that moment doesn't mean there's something long term wrong with you.
And as we see that time and time again,
We begin to just let go of that thinking more easily and drop back into that place of peace and calm.
And that connection to love.
I hope this little exploration has been helpful.
I've got a course on this subject,
Stress to self-love,
Gently heal your inner relationship,
Which you might find helpful if you want to see even more deeply the love that you truly are.
Take care,
Lots of love and I really hope to see you again soon.
Thank you for tuning in.
