The Power Of Self-Love

These days it is easy to get derailed... by negative forces outside and inside of us. This gentle meditation uses some easy breaths to get us out of the head and then into a relaxed state to receive our own love.

Transcript

There are many things that can seem to knock us off course.

Someone disappointing us,

Rejection from love or career.

Mostly our own negative thoughts.

They can be so recurring and subtle that we take them for reality.

Our very thoughts and judgments can be the thing that deteriorates our mood.

We think things on the outside are the cause of either our happiness or our hell.

We give meaning to the way people or life treats us as if it means we are not valuable or lovable or enough.

But the thing is,

The way we see ourselves,

The way we feel about ourselves,

The very identity we have formed for ourselves,

The point of view we have about who we are as if from the outside looking in,

Is a construction.

And it's usually based on the default mode of how we feel about ourselves,

About who we think we are.

But it's a mental construction.

So why not have the best,

Most loving and adoring view of us?

Because the negative seems more realistic.

If we loved ourselves as we are,

We might miss out on ways to become more perfect,

More attractive,

More sought after,

More admired,

More lovable and more worthy.

But that's a lie.

Would you ever tell a baby,

I don't feel good about you,

You haven't proven yourself,

Two years on this earth and not a single boyfriend?

You must not be beautiful enough.

You can't even walk perfectly yet.

I'm not going to hug you.

No one's chosen you for a job or a team yet.

You're obviously not worthy.

That would be ridiculous.

But what if there was not a single thing you could add to you to make you more deserving of huge unlimited love and adoration?

What if your status,

Accomplishments,

Body shape,

People in your life or not in your life meant nothing?

What if just the existence of your heart was the basis for all the love in the world?

Be willing to be crazy for a second.

Be willing to let your default mode of non-love toward yourself disappear in this little journey we're going to take.

Get firmly grounded with either your legs crossed or if in a chair,

Feet touching the ground or lay down where your breathing is uncompromised.

Now open your arms way out,

Lift your heart up as if opening to the sky,

Exposing your heart.

Feel the muscles open up.

Feel the muscles in your back contract as your heart center lifts and relax.

Now we're going to do a few seconds of breath work to get out of the mind and into the body.

You're going to breathe out through the nose quickly eight times and then slowly inhale.

So close your eyes,

Breathe out through the nose quickly eight times.

Slowly inhale and let's do it again.

Slowly inhale and one more time eight times out through the nose.

Inhale and exhale it all out through your mouth.

With your eyes still closed,

Put one hand over your heart.

Breathe into your heart,

Letting it rise up and sigh it out through the mouth.

Again,

Breathe into your heart as it rises.

Sigh it out through the mouth.

You can breathe normally now.

Stay relaxed and soft.

Your heart is alive.

It is open,

Ready to receive all that is good,

Ready to receive life's love,

Ready to receive your love.

Know that you are safe.

You can trust your heart.

It always knows.

When you are in love,

There is nothing to fear.

You can surrender now.

You are safe.

Imagine that all the thoughts in the world mean nothing now.

There is only the way your heart feels that matters.

Imagine that the highest version of yourself,

The royal,

Majestic,

Fully realized and highest vibration energy body of you is right in front of you looking at you.

It sees you,

The truth of you.

It sees you as love.

It sees you wrapped in a robe of the most beautiful gemstones and sparkly jewels of every kind,

Emanating colors so vibrant we don't even have names for them.

It sees your eyes shine like stars,

So alive and glistening with pride at who you are.

Says to you,

You love life and life loves you.

Life sees you.

It knows who you are and it values you.

It hears you.

It admires and respects you.

It loves when you light up,

When you laugh,

When you make others laugh,

When you dance and hear music.

It says to you,

Do you know how much I love you?

Can you even imagine the wonder I feel when I look at you?

You are a beautiful mystery unraveling.

Choose your reality.

Choose the way I look at you.

I give you permission to feel the magic of this life,

The awe and wonder as if you were a little kid getting to know yourself for the first time.

It's with life as if it wants to take you by the arms and waltz you into perfect rhythm.

Life is a majestic and friendly eagle that wants to put you on its back and fly you through the kingdom as you take delight in the warm wind on your face and through your hair.

I love everything you feel.

Your heart is so good.

You deserve your dreams because you care.

You deserve joy because you feel.

You deserve love because you are alive.

I love you and I will never leave you.

I am always here seeing the best of you even when you don't see me.

This POV of you is yours to keep.

First thing in the morning and last thing at night.

Yes,

You deserve it.

Even when you feel guilty or lacking or not enough.

Even then,

The quality of your heart is royal and nothing you do can change that.

You are the author of the identity of you.

Nobody and no thing has the power to choose otherwise.

The power is yours and only yours to see you from the special POV.

Your highest self now wraps its arms around you in a great hug.

The highest love.

And you now relax into this new energy stream.

This new mode of being.

This new way of being which has been you this entire time,

A new perception.

It's yours to take.

Breathe softly and let love in.

Life loves you.

It is safe to be loved.

It is safe to be loved by you.

It is safe to live with a big full heart that feels everything quote unquote good or bad.

You don't have to disconnect anymore.

All suffering lies in the disconnection from love.

You are safe in love.

Your heart is safe when it's open and feeling.

Nothing can ever take that from you.

All the love in the world is yours for the taking.

Enjoy it like an all you can eat buffet that never runs out.

That is always yours to embrace when you need it.

And as you breathe,

Be with what is right now.

The highest kingdom of your own imagination.

Watch your breath in and out like soft Caribbean waves,

Gentle,

Peaceful.

Love is safe.

Your heart is a safe place.

Your power,

Big,

Enormous,

And magnificent is safe.

You have permission to shine like the brightest lighthouse.

You have permission to love yourself so proudly like a sailboat at full mast,

Like a radio at full volume,

Bold,

Bright,

Loud,

Proud,

Shining,

And glowing.

Softly open your eyes.

Sit with this new energy stream.

My friends,

You are free to fly.

Reviews

I never realised I needed this-thank you 🫶🙏

Such a beautiful and meaningful meditation. A very successful pick-me-up too. I was visibly beaming and sporting a huge smile afterwards. Thank you so very much!

…and I you ever create a self-narrated audiobook, I’d be so interested.

So happy i discovered you and your wonderful meditations 🙏

Good perspective shift, helpful looking at self/heart from our own objective part of self.

I love listening to this on repeat. She speaks very calmly and keeps me at peace

Love all of this 💕

I like how the opening just starts right in, instead of the all too usual warm up of telling me how to get comfortable and situated for meditation.

Direct and to the point. 🙏

I cried

I love this meditation. I love it that I am free to fly! Thank you for this message and for your gentle, calming voice.

Very nice thank you

Gorgeous

Oh, this was so amazing! I am going to listen to it everyday until I will memorize every single word 💖🙏

Enriching and enlightening. So full of truth! Thank you so much, Marlene! 💗

Thank you so much, this was really beautiful and I enjoyed it so much🥰