Hello.
Hello my beautiful fellow traveller.
And welcome.
How are you?
How are you doing on this crazy journey called life?
I am so happy and grateful that you're here.
Thank you for doing something so kind and nurturing for yourself.
Because you deserve it.
So gently close your eyes now and feel yourself sink into your body.
We spend too much time in our heads and not enough time grounded in our bodies,
In our souls and our hearts.
So feel the ground beneath you now.
Whether you're sitting on a chair,
Curled up on a sofa,
Lying on your bed.
Just allow yourself to sink down into your body,
Feeling held and supported by the ground below you.
Held and supported by Mother Earth,
Who's holding and supporting the furniture you're sitting on.
Holding and supporting the room where you are.
As you breathe in,
Feel the air permeate into every part of your body.
And as you breathe out,
Release all tension.
Breathing in,
Feeling your body slow down and soften.
Breathing out or racing thoughts and things to do.
Just breathe.
Slow down.
Relax.
Today's affirmation audio journey is about saying what we need to hear.
When someone hurts us and doesn't apologize,
It hurts.
When we do something thoughtful for someone and it goes unappreciated,
It hurts.
When we work extra hard and it goes unseen or unacknowledged,
It hurts.
It hurts when people don't say what we long to hear in order to feel loved or seen or appreciated or respected or understood.
But we don't have to stay in the hurt because of what someone didn't say.
We can say the things we need to hear in order to heal.
We don't have to wait for anyone else to say them.
Whether it's a parent that doesn't say what you need to hear in order to feel loved or a partner who doesn't say the things you need to hear in order for you to feel supported or your child or a friend that doesn't say the things you need to hear in order to feel appreciated for all the things you do.
It doesn't matter who the person is or what it is that they don't say.
You don't need to wait for them to say it.
You don't need to feel disappointed,
Empty,
Unseen or unappreciated because someone doesn't say the things you need to hear them say.
If they didn't say it but you need to hear it,
Then why don't you say it to yourself?
It feels so good inside our hearts and our souls when we get a compliment or someone shows their support or appreciation in their words but why does that compliment,
Support or appreciation always have to come from someone else?
Why can't we make a daily practice of saying to ourselves the things we need to hear?
Why is it that hearing someone say something loving to you feels better than you saying something loving to yourself?
We can tell ourselves what we need to hear,
What we long for.
If someone doesn't say the words we need,
We can.
And so I'd like you to do that now.
I'd like you to remember a recent time when someone didn't say what you deserved or needed to hear.
Perhaps someone was unkind to you and didn't apologize.
Maybe you did something special for someone and they didn't speak their appreciation.
Or you worked extra hard and nobody acknowledged you.
Maybe someone didn't tell you they love you.
Or I'm here for you.
Or thank you.
Or I believe in you.
Or I'm sorry.
Recall a moment now.
Recall a moment when you were disappointed or hurt or sad because of something someone didn't say.
Go back to that moment.
See it in your mind's eye.
If you could change history,
If you could go back in time right now,
Back to that very moment,
What is it that you wish they would have said to you?
What would you have liked them to say?
What is it that you needed to hear?
And now I'd like you to imagine yourself standing in front of a mirror.
Just stand there and watch yourself staring back at you.
And whatever it is you wish that person had said to you,
I'd like you to say that to your reflection in the mirror right now.
Look deeply into your own eyes and with authenticity,
Gentleness,
Truth and love,
Say to yourself what you needed them to say to you.
I'm sorry I took my pain out on you.
I am so grateful for everything you do for me.
You're doing such a great job.
Everything is going to be okay.
I am so proud of you.
I'm sorry I hurt you.
I'm here for you.
I appreciate you.
Don't worry.
I've got you.
The secret to healing is not what other people say or don't say to you.
The secret to healing is about what you say or don't say to yourself.
You can tell yourself the things you need to hear in order to feel safe and enough and appreciated and seen and loved and understood.
Stop waiting for them to say it and start saying it to yourself.
Self-healing is making it less about them and more about you.
So maybe you can try and incorporate this into your daily life.
Maybe you can make saying the things you need to hear as important and normal as brushing your teeth.
Maybe every morning when you wake up,
You could tune into yourself and ask yourself what you long to hear that would start your day perfectly and say that to yourself.
Today is a brand new day full of hope and possibility.
Or good morning my darling.
This could be the day your whole life changes for the better.
Or you've got this.
Now go show the world what you can do.
Or simply I love you and I hope you have a beautiful day.
Why don't you gift yourself that?
Start saying to yourself exactly what you need to hear each and every morning when you wake up.
That alone,
That one small kindness shown to yourself every day is powerful enough to change your life.
Powerful enough to heal your heart and heal your soul.
Remember,
You can heal yourself.
You have all the power and love inside of you to heal.
You don't need anyone else to say it.
You can say it.
So start saying it.
Saying what you long to hear because you are worthy,
You are important,
You are deserving and you should be loved by yourself.
