Today,
On Tune Into the Silence,
Delight Your Own Love.
Love is a balance of give and take.
A balance is an integral part of creating equality in the relationship,
But with yourself.
If the scales are tipped one way or the other,
Then it will cause a tidal wave of painful yearning within.
Give and receive your own love.
It begins with giving.
It begins with giving as that is what is natural for us as humans.
We have the innate ability to give freely and lovingly.
Turning that love to yourself means accepting graciously without giving anything in return unconditionally.
The empty and chaotic and barren places are longing to be filled with your loving embrace.
To feel you pour into them with loving attention and grace,
The same grace and attention you give to others.
Let your heart break wide open with unconditional surrender of your own acceptance and love.
Pour through the cracks of heartache and the barriers of wanting.
In the void of heartache and despair where you're grasping for a hand to hold,
Be that hand for yourself.
Reach out in the darkness of night and be your own savior.
Let love lift you up and carry you into the place where there is no question of who you are.
Fear the gift and the existence,
A unique existence.
Taking a moment to find a comfortable position and if it feels right to you,
Closing your eyes and bringing your awareness towards your body.
Just noticing,
Noticing your body,
The one that's sitting here.
Maybe it's on a chair or a cushion,
But bringing awareness to how the position,
This place,
How it feels to be settled here right now.
Bringing awareness to the existence of you.
Seeing if you can lean in towards yourself with that loving awareness.
Simply by acknowledging the very presence of your existence,
That unique existence that lights the world.
Acknowledging that you're here,
Alive,
Wondrous.
You can do that by an inner smile or a nod of the head.
A sense of warmth.
The simple greeting that says I'm here.
I deserve my own attention.
My own love,
My own awareness.
Just breathing in and out with natural ability,
No need to change anything.
Maybe even drawing your awareness towards the breath.
And as you do so,
Seeing if you can allow that sense of warmth to expand just a little bit.
Encompassing more of yourself,
A tender awareness of who you are.
This beautiful being that deserves to be seen and acknowledged.
Acknowledging your own love and the beautiful gift of it simply by being with it.
Encompassing with your own gentle awareness and tender giving of your time and attention to yourself without constraints or boundaries.
And doing so,
You're saying I am.
Encompassing every I am by acknowledging your own love.
And drawing in another warm loving breath.
Feeling it fill your entire being with warmth and generosity and kindness.
And to all those cracks and barriers filling every dark place with tenderness and love.
Breathing it in the warmth and kindness of your soul.
Just taking a few moments to feel and experience it.
And when you're ready,
You can open your eyes and come back to existence of life just as it is with this loving awareness of you.
Of your existence and your unique presence in the world.
And as you continue on your day,
I wish for you is may you be kind to yourself.
