Connect in love!

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
— Rumi

"One day I woke up to myself"

"Befriending Yourself; Make time for a play date"

Day Fifteen of the Self-love 31-day 5-minute challenge: Friendship

I invite you to BEfriend yourself, you are wondering how do I do that, or what does that look like! First; everything begins within! There is no question about that. What's on the inside vibes on the outside, that is the law of attraction. Before we can be any kind of friend, we must start with ourselves. We most likely don't even think about ourselves in that light.

Today, just for five minutes’ feel what it's like to be a bit more “Self-ISH” (not selfish) but taking care of your own well-being and not leaving yourself behind so that you can bring to the table the very best YOU. After all, everywhere you go there you are, love that expression.

Being a friend to yourself is the introduction to the beginnings of relationships with others. First, we must approve and accept ourselves before we can share that friendship with another.
Think about how many times you have gone out of your way for a friend to be kind, and leave yourself out. How many times did you sacrifice yourself for another's attention and time without giving yourself that same courtesy? Plenty, I am sure, I know because I have done it.

It is crazy how great we can be to others showing them the BEST parts of our 'Giving Tree', but when it comes to our own needs, that goes on the back burner. Not being friends with ourselves doesn't allow sustainability with others.

Being a good, kind, loving BF is showing YOURSELF that same grace and hospitality that we show our friends. Be kind to yourself, embrace your humanness; Celebrate yourself as a part of a whole family, the likenesses of all those outside ourselves, that we truly are, imperfect, perfect, filled with magic, filled with love to share and wanting to be loved, accepted, appreciated and most important, connected.

Self-friendship is knowing YOU. It’s not only about embracing the less appetizing parts of ourselves, but also engaging a strength that perhaps has gone unnoticed because we might have been looking outside for that part of ourselves. Befriending yourself is about coming into your fullness. If we don’t treat ourselves in a friendly manner, we don’t treat life in a friendly fashion.

I have always believed, "the best way to have a friend is to be a friend to yourself first and foremost." What you do for yourself, affects your world outside of you, remember to practice random acts of kindness towards yourself! Dolby Dharma

The Mantra: I AM my own best friend. I choose to give love to myself first and foremost.

"Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion." ~ Margo Anand

Peaceful Warrior!

Day Six of the Self-love 31-day 5-minute challenge: Peace   
 Today I invite you to fill your heart with inner-peace, that space where self-acceptance dwells. Life is busy busy busy, and sometimes we forget that all we must do is close our eyes and remember, 'There's no place like home.' 

Peace is letting go, living moment to moment. Do not plan the next minute, hour or day for five minutes; feel peace, believe peace and know that peace is the path of acceptance. Your breath will be your guide, just focus on your inhales and exhales and let it all go!

Inner peace is not something to achieve, it is your birthright, you just must access it and know it is within your power to create a few moments of peace that is always available to you.

Ways to help tap into your heart space is to create peace with your hand gestures, feel your heart beating, free your mind and listen to the inner voice of love and acceptance; YOU are enough. Act peacefully, speak peacefully and feel peacefully. Peace comes from making changes within the heart. Peace comes from your intentions.

As we know ourselves more, know we are loved by a divine source, a calmness brews within filling the heart with inner-peace that fuels the body mind and spirit, and you come to this place inside you that you can endure, regardless of what challenges life brings to you.

Peace opens, as you melt into your true nature; that you are whole, perfect and powerful within.

Today’s Affirmation: I hold peace, love, and serenity in my being, I welcome a new way of thinking as I shift my approach within.

 “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ~Eckhart Tolle

Nurturing Energy!

Day Three of the Self-love 31-day 5-minute challenge: Nurturing energy

Today your challenge is to imagine being surrounded by Nurturing mystical energy, the divine energy around you that helps you live, breath and BE. Tap into the grand source of boundless energy and know it works for you, with you and is a constant source of vitality.

Allow this Divine energy to nurture you in every part of your being, Feel ALL of life. Feel the radiant energy surrounding you with powerful nourishment for your body, mind, and spirit.

Tap into this pure Magical Power that surrounds you at all time. Use it to awaken your heart, heal your body.

It is vital to your well-being to make time every day to feed your spirit with this awareness think of it as a kind of “knowingness,” you can't see it but you know it's there. Dolby Dharma

Today’s Affirmation: I receive nurturing from the abundance of life.

"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have." ~Norman Vincent Peal