Hello,
My sweet friends.
This is Morgan with Splendid Yoga.
I want to talk to you today about how to love yourself,
Especially if you have a relationship in your life that has recently ended or that you know needs to transform in some way.
It feels like such a loss,
The body experiences it like a loss.
But is it a loss to grow from child to teenager to adult?
Or is it a transformation?
How do you learn how to love yourself when your sense of love was so dependent on your partner?
To love yourself means looking at the regret,
The loneliness,
The fear,
The sadness,
And feeling a deep level of acceptance.
That all of those difficult emotions are just as valid,
Just as important,
Just as crucial to your experience as the joy,
The glee,
The cheerfulness,
The wholeness.
To fall in love with yourself,
It's a fake it till you make it situation.
You say out loud,
I love myself enough to wake up.
I love myself enough to brush my teeth.
I love myself enough to feed myself food that gives me energy.
I love myself enough to call my friends and tell them when it's too hard.
I love myself enough to set boundaries to those who aren't serving me.
I love myself enough to take a deep breath and then another one.
You keep going.
You keep breathing until everything feels like love,
Until your enemy's knife in your side feels like love,
Until acid rain and spider bites and meteorites feel like love.
You ask your heart for its permission to love all of it and you allow your heart the space to say no,
I'm not ready.
I'm not ready to love all of it yet.
You hold your heart like a scared puppy and tell it,
I understand and it's okay and I forgive you and I still love you.
You tell your heart,
I am so proud of you.
You're so brave wanting to love again when you know how much it hurts when it ends.
You tell your heart,
We're growing,
We're expanding,
We're doing it perfectly.
Everything is as it should be.
Repeat after me.
I don't chase,
I attract.
What is meant for me finds me.
I don't chase,
I attract.
What is meant for me finds me.
Love to you,
Sweet friend.
