It's all about the love!

It's all about the love ❤

Pink Bonding Blanket- 'DOTTIE' who is the color of the universal love of oneself and others; it also represents friendship, affection, harmony, inner peace, and approachability. Pink is the official color of feminine power and represents sugar and spice and everything nice. 

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle – Albert Einstein.

Light up your heart!

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?” 
― Jalaluddin Rumi

"The Shape of the Universe"

"The Shape of the Universe"

Searching for love, searching for answers, searching for truth, knowledge, and understanding. We are all born seekers, looking for a place to plant ourselves, to feel grounded, nourished and fed. The problem is we forget that home is not an external grounding for the love and nourishments we crave. Our roots are within, the life force that illuminates from the inside out.

We are like a beautiful tree that bears a unique fruit, the fruit that stores all the wisdom and nourishments that make us who we are.
We are given 'free will' to choose ourselves, trust ourselves and stay grounded within ourselves. To feel that groundedness is to find your balance.

Your life belongs to you, and it is important to honor the wholeness that you already are. Nourish yourself and know you are complete just being with you, everything and everyone is just a compliment to your life. When you feel rooted within an amazing event takes place; 'Everywhere you go there you are;' HOME. Know your own significance. You are valuable. You are entitled to experience the Universe in you. Dolby Dharma

 "There is only one true love affair; the one with yourself. All others are expressions of it." - Hemal Radia

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

R-E-S-P-E-C-T yourself

We have all heard the saying, how people treat you is often a reflection of how you treat yourself.

To honor yourself and others is to revere it, to show courteous regard, and also to hold ourselves in high respect.

When we are not saying 'NO' when we mean yes we are disrespecting ourselves and the other.

When we don't honor our bodies, our thoughts, actions, and spirit we are disrespecting ourselves and the other.

Each of us is guilty of showing disrespect at one time or another to someone else and ourselves.

Let's practice being more mindful of our thoughts, beliefs, ideas, and actions.

Let us be open to the opinions and ideas of others without having to rearrange them. Let's give the other's the same RESPECT we want for ourselves.

If we are struggling with respecting another, maybe the problem lies within, time for self-examination. It's a good idea to check in with ourselves when we feel rubbed the wrong way, after all, we can be very sensitive and take things out of content, not always, but sometimes.

People do show up and sometimes perform for our highest good, I call them the messengers of life. Sometimes it is not so much about what they are doing, but how we are reacting.

Our self-worth and self-respect for ourselves can be revealed in our responses and actions.  

We must take responsibility for how we are being treated, get away from the blame and shame game.

We must get to know ourselves more in a way that our intentions are for the highest good for ourselves and others: Kindness, openheartedness, and understanding, forgiveness and know that not everything is about us and that we can move on and away from a situation that does not serve us or the other.

Forgiveness for self and others will set us free, it takes away the judging, it just says we are all here working our way back to ourselves. 

Bottom line; Believe in yourself, treat yourself with respect and don't take anything personally. Dolby Dharma

“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.” Robert Tew

"I Do"

Love this perfect declaration to thine own self-be true. We must pledge to ourselves to be
kinder, more loving, accepting and forgiving. Marriage is one of these core
bonds we do with other people, so often giving ourselves away. That is usually
when all the drama begins, we give ourselves away, then wake-up and what us back.

Today, think about
committing to yourself in a way that you feel whole, independent, rooted in a
healthy relationship with ourselves first and foremost. Self-Marriage is a way
to validate, declare, share, and sanctify self-love. Simply just say, "I
do"! Dolby Dharma

I ME WED
Let's begin by telling a simple truth: You will probably never create a resilient, invigorating bond
with the lush accomplice of your dreams until you master the art of loving
yourself ingeniously. A wedding ritual that joins you to yourself could
catalyze an uncanny shift in your personal mojo that would attract a fresh, hot
consort into your life, or else awaken the sleeping potential of a simmering alliance you have now.

If you're feeling
brave, try speaking the following words aloud:
I am no longer
looking for the perfect partner.

I am my own perfect partner."

Say it even stronger:

I am no longer looking for the perfect partner

to salve all my wounds and fix all my mix-ups

and bridge all my chasms.

I am no longer looking for the perfect partner because I am my own perfect partner."

I pledge to wake myself up, never hold back, have nothing to lose, go all the way, kiss the
stormy sky, be the hero of my own story, ask for everything I need and give
everything I have, take myself to the river when it's time to go to the river,
and take myself to the mountaintop when it's time to go to the mountaintop.

I vow to love myself unconditionally and unconventionally until the end of time and beyond.

            ~Rob Brezsny

The Mantra: I am
strong and grounded in myself.

"Serving up a dose of deserve"

Self-acceptance or self-love, when approached from a deeper level of our true nature-love, is not superficial or vanity. Self-love is an honoring of our life-force by loving ourselves no matter what flaws, qualities or challenges we may hold within and express without.

We can begin each day with new thoughts, new discoveries, and a new awareness.

When are intentions are for the highest good of self-acceptance and kindness for humanity, everyone benefits!

We are all unique expressions working our way back to ourselves. How Awesome is that?

" You are allowed to be a masterpiece and work in progress simultaneously. - Sophia Bush"

— feeling Amazing.

"First Love"

Day Twenty-Nine of the Self-love 31-day 5-minute Challenge: Open to loving YOU

Start with yourself when it comes to love.

Love is the light, the healing balm, the heartbeat of life.

Love is YOU. Take a chance on YOU. Dolby Dharma

I love this wisdom by Charlie Chaplin: written on his 70th Birthday!

As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is AUTHENTICITY.

As I began to love myself, I understood how much it can offend somebody as I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it RESPECT.

As I began to love myself, I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it MATURITY.

As I began to love myself, I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment so I could be calm. Today I call it SELF-CONFIDENCE.

As I began to love myself, I quit steeling my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do, and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it SIMPLICITY.

As I began to love myself, I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything the drew me down and away from myself. At first, I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is LOVE OF ONESELF.

As I began to love myself, I quit always trying to be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is MODESTY.

As I began to love myself, I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where EVERYTHING is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it FULFILLMENT.

As I began to love myself, I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But As I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection WISDOM OF THE HEART.

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know THAT IS LIFE!

The Mantra: With every breath I take, I create more space for enjoying myself.

“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”

― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow

"Feelin Alright"

"Feelin Alright"

Day Twenty-Seven of the Self-love 31-day 5-minute Challenge: Self-Awareness

Create a list of at least 10 of your virtues, talents, accomplishments, and the things that make you 'uniquely' you. We all have many attributes that make us distinctive, some we are aware of, and others not so much. Getting to know thyself in a busy world is not an easy task unless we make some time to acknowledge ourselves.

Journaling our features helps us recognize ourselves, and maybe ignite a spark to help us hone in on a quality about ourselves we might not be aware of that we can foster more of.

Creating a daily habit of self-awareness contributes to changing up the way you might feel about yourself in a positive way, and allow for more acceptance when things don't go how you would like them. Unfortunately, that is when we can beat ourselves up, and give up.
Most of all don't be shy about your qualities, you are an amazing being, and self-awareness is where you can discover your dormant treasures.

A real voyage of Self-discovery ahead. Bon Voyage!  Dolby Dharma

The Mantra: “I celebrate my gifts by confidently offering my talents to the world. Sharing with others adds richness and depth to all I do.”

"All of us have to seek in our own way to make our own selves nobler and to realize our own true worth." - Albert Schweitzer

Receiving End of Life

Receiving End of Life

Day Twenty-Five of the Self-love 31-day 5-minute Challenge: Receiving

Where can you open to receiving life's abundance? Sometimes we are busy 'giving' ourselves away to life's demands. So often we don't feel worthy or deserving of receiving the gifts that life, people, and goodness have to offer us. Maybe we block the receiving by always doing, giving and not allowing ourselves to receive. I am sure if you think about it, you have this innate knowing that receiving at times can be uncomfortable or hard.

I invite you today to Allow, Accept and Appreciate the endless energy that flows through you. This energy is the conduit that allows you to receive more love, more goodness, more happiness and more "AHA" moments. It is the sparkle that wakes you up to your creative side of life and lets you feel your life-affirming abundance; to receive all that is your birthright, to receive.

How can we do this: It is the practice of letting go of situations, storylines, material things, and people, etc. We are endlessly being filled up with heavy energy that needs to be cleared out. If we don't move it out, it gets stuck and weighs us down.

You Let Go When You Let In, you are receiving life. Results; Love expands and comes back to you, abundance comes, joy comes, everything shows up. The hard part to letting go.

When I refer to, letting go, it is not about forgetting the past, mistakes, bad habits before we can receive. It is an energetic exchange of giving and receiving. Look at letting go as 'giving' the Universe back that which no longer is needed or serves your highest good, and allow yourself to receive fresh new energy.
☮Dolby Dharma

The Mantra: I live my life like it's my favorite game to play. I am on the receiving end of abundance. I AM worthy.  THANK-YOU!

A huge connection exists between your willingness to receive and what you actually get. ~ Amanda Owen

Leap for Joy!

Leap for Joy!

Day Sixteen of the Self-love 31-day 5-minute challenge: Leap of Faith

I invite you today to think about or act upon something in your life that you can just 'Go for it, take a chance on something or someone or just start believing YOU CAN DO IT; whatever IT is?'

What is a leap of faith; it is when we believe in something or someone even though the circumstances are not visible or reachable yet, and maybe they won't appear as we had planned, maybe there is something bigger and better on the horizon for us that we could not imagine yet. Our idea or leap was/is just the fire started to get the energy rollin.

The only thing in life we know for sure is that life is dubiousness. We can’t predict how it’s all going to turn out no matter how calculated we are and some of us are pretty calculating. Thus, it is an excellent idea to roll with the changes, go with the flow and ride the wild ride, and "Why NOT'.

Fear, self-doubt, and uncertainty will endlessly make appearances even long after we took that leap of faith, especially if we are expecting our results immediately or just flat out have that expectation. But the actual magic begins to happen when we 'LET GO' and 'TRUST' that no matter how it turns out, we will be alright.

So many of us are blessed with so many extraordinary and unordinary abilities, it is not about measurable talents that we see, it is about the unforeseen creations that have yet to appear. None of us are meant to live ordinary lives we are extra unordinary humans with infinite potential to create. We are here to let go and plant our seeds to grow.

Take a chance, call someone you've been afraid to talk to, quit your job that you bitch about daily. Speak up and share your wisdom, ask for a raise, you deserve it. Replace fear of the unknown with a sense of desire and wonder for what’s to come. Love yourself more.

The list of fears can go on and on. REO Speedwagon said it in a song; "If you're tired of the same ole story, turn some pages and keep on rollin."

Ultimately, for me, “faith” is synonymous with personal trust and confidence, when I let go of how things look, life works in my favor no matter the outcome.

Happy leaps- Dolby Dharma

The Mantra: When I take a leap, I land safely. I am in love with life.

“Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.” - Eckhart Tolle

Befriending Yourself; Make time for a play date."

"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

"What's LOVE got to do with it"

"What's LOVE got to do with it."

Day Twelve of the Self-love 31-day 5-minute challenge: LOVE

I invite you to take five minutes and think about a situation in your life where you can BE a loving presence, Give more love and Feel more love for Yourself. YES, this is about Self-Love.

Love is a universal word, but not a universal feeling, at least not to me. I have always thought of love as something indescribable, intangible and ambiguous in nature. The "L-word" is just blurted out, but it doesn't mean the same thing to everyone that is for sure.

Where to begin: Loving yourself first, in a healthy, NONnarrcistic way; that is having a reverence for humanity, wanting for others what you want for yourself.

Loving yourself is key to knowing what it feels like to have a quality connection to self and others. If you don't own it, or know what it feels like to honor yourself, you can't possibly know the depth of another, without knowing 'YOU' first.

The power in a 'love connection' begins with self-acceptance.

In our culture, we are too busy seeking someone to love us, take care of us to make us feel accepted, validated, whole and complete. Not for all of us, but for most of us.

On a subconscious level, we seek people to grow more, learn more, and work out our ancestor's generational downloads. These downloads have taken up residency in our body, minds, and spirit. We are not aware of it; hence ending up in crazy making relationships.

These collective generational dramas live in the cells of our bodies waiting to be fed. We all carry around all kinds of stories about ourselves, but until we address and gain an understanding of what our needs are, address the wounds, then we know that what we were seeking outside ourselves we had all along. Love is meant to be a compliment to each other, at least that is how I feel it. 

Receiving love from another always feels good, but the love I feel for myself allows me to have healthy relationships with others. I want for them, what I want for myself. 

The good news with this challenge, you get to spend five minutes opening to yourself and see where you can love yourself more.

Today get over to the mirror, gaze into the soul of your eyes and allow the floodgates of love to open. Spend those minutes looking for what is beautiful and loving about YOU. Receive it as you breathe in the life force of love that is your birthright. Open a little more, and take in all that is RIGHT with you, sip a little more love in. Love is never-ending and eternally flowing, all you have to do is practice this mirror work each morning. You will be glad you did, it sets the tone for a unordinary day of unexpected LOVE.

At the end of the day, it ALL boils down to LOVE. <3 Dolby Dharma

Today's Mantra: I AM a loving presence, love is my life force.

Love is more than what can be expressed in words, love is more than grammar and verbs. Love is compassionate and soothing, love can be painful and grueling, but only for growth. Love is not abusive, love is not vindictive, love is not selfish. Love will not leave you with a black eye and hating yourself. Love is the building blocks of creation, love is the substance from which we are made. From love, to love, by love. ~Muneera Rashida