R U Being Your Own Valentine?

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Through the aches, pains, sore throats and other unmentionables of the flu, I am happy to announce that love is still alive -- Yes, I'm talking about my love for myself.  I awoke today feeling new energy flowing and enthusiastic about the day for the first time in what seems like a while -- though it really hasn't been -- 3 days maybe but it seems like eons.  I'm so unused to having anything slow me down.  All through it I kept sending love to myself and letting my body know that whatever it had to go through was just a part of the process.  Okay, Okay, I did indulge in a little self-pity and "Why me?" but not for long.  And I awoke today realizing it's Valentine's Day.  I was maybe supposed to do something this evening but I nixed that possibility yesterday in favor of giving my body whatever time it needs to heal.

That left me with thoughts about making this a special day for me, by me, to me.  So I began asking, How is my own relationship with myself?  Does my love and respect for myself reflect the love and respect I desire to receive?  Am I treating myself as that delicious special person in my life?  This morning's pondering led me to the re-realization that this relationship with myself was the ONE -- the one with the longest distance, the most lasting potential, and most importantly the mirror for all the others that come and go out there in the world.   Am I being my own best lover?  And are you? 

Today is a day that a lot of folks put pressure on themselves to do for others, or pressure on others to do for them.  But how are we treating ourselves this day?  What is the one special thing that you are going to do for you?  As a woman, I certainly want to be cherished.  And then the questions is, Am I cherishing myself?  Men desire respect.  And so men, are you respecting yourself? 

What's one thing you can do today to add to your love affair with yourself?  Is there something special that you want and you think no one will give you?  For example, I love flowers.  And I have no expectations that anyone will send me flowers, except for virtual ones maybe, and so I'm going to give myself some Iris from Trader Joe's.  Men, is there a tool you've been wanting, or that new gadget or maybe a new CD, or just to spend some time with yourself meditating or making music.  Whatever ever it is, are you willing to give it to yourself in the next couple of days? 

Just writing this, I can feel the joy flowing fuller and fuller in my own being?  The act of writing that I love myself seems to please some part within me.  What about you?  What do you love about yourself?  Ah come on!  You can do this! This little moment is for you -- whether you are a man or woman -- write a list of the 10, 20 or 30 things you really dig about yourself. Right now, if you can. 

And if you are finding that your loving of yourself in in the minus column, call me to find out about my ThetaHealing Private Session Specials, 818-590-0062. ThetaHealing can assist you to build a powerhouse of a relationship with yourself.  We are the world we create within us. 

As a final note someone recently sent me a Harvard Study that shows that Happiness is contagious -- just like this flu virus that's been with me.  So, why are we not having a happy epidemic?  Or a love epidemic?  My take is that the loving and happy has to begin at home inside us.   

Have a wonderful love day with yourself!  And then share that with someone else. 

Love and Blessings to you all on this glorious, beauitufl day.

Comments

[Derek]

Hi Mary-Suzanne,

I find that when a "why me?" comes into consciousness, it is part of a greater learning process. It is showing me a distinction between my mind (ego) and Mind (Self). The "why me?" thought is challenging Self which I feel is the reason why I occupy my earthly body, and through such a challenge I will build my Self awareness by exercising the spiritual "muscle" through the process of acceptance of what’s going on with me right in the moment of now. I need to be aware of the little "why me?" and through focusing on this and permitting the indulgence, I am allowing it to integrate with the Whole, or I-am consciousness.

This is how I become my own Self-lover or as I am a man, Self-respecter, but I may not always know it consciously, for if I did there would be no point in the challenge in the first place! I just love these little Zen paradoxes.

So anyway… me too! I am still experiencing the residual aches and pain of the 'flu that I had at Xmas, yet your posting here has inspired me to write about what I consider to be my path to Self realization and already I can feel the aches and pains begin to melt away and my consciousness expand. So thank you and a love and blessings to you.. :-)