LOVE IS ALL WE NEED

There are a thousand healing paths on the journey to our most sacred self.  LOVE, in my opinion, is the Master Teacher on our curative voyage to wholeness.   Healing may be a long arduous journey or an instantaneous “ah ha”, but LOVE is the principal educator.  Search online for “love” and 8,130,000,000 results emerge within seconds.  A topic of high interest!  When I speak of healing LOVE, I am talking about the enduring, universal, and unending LOVE force that resides in every cell of our being.  This LOVE saturates each word, intention, and endeavor.  Be mindful of how you engage your LOVE vitality as it creates the template for all experiences.  Our lifelong and perpetual homework is to grow in holistic LOVE.  Cultivating the potency of LOVE is healing.  Learning how to love ourselves is lesson one in the school of life.  When we listen deeply to our inner mystic, we intuitively know that LOVE shelters and magnifies us.  Surrendering our defenses and doubts makes us a more trustworthy vessel of LOVE.   Unequivocally knowing we are worthy and significant is restorative LOVE.

We deeply crave to be accepted and truly known for our radiant selves.  As the saying goes, “We search for love in all the wrong places” when we are not grounded by a deep sense of being lovable.  We construct a veneer of an idealized image–how we think we should behave, so we may be acceptable.  We soon discover the hollowness of trying to please others without considering ourselves.  Our emptiness creates an unfulfillable urge to be known, to be loved.  We seek satisfaction from others lingering in the hope they will meet our unspoken needs.  We do not realize our external pursuit for superficial love takes us in circles.  We are spinning around our forgotten selves.  Pausing to regain a foothold into our capacity to love ourselves is a prerequisite corrective course.  It is not until we silence our doubts and listen to our deeper wisdom that we are able to claim our “magnificent self”.  “Magnificent self” is our essence—perfect, wise, and trustworthy.  Reclaim YOU!

Question:  How may I infuse my words, thoughts, and actions with LOVE?

FORGIVENESS HEALS

Forgiveness provides the opportunity to release us from the hauntings of past hurts.  Forgiveness in the simplest form is–letting go.  When we liberate ourselves from the clutches of unforgiveness, we set free the burdens we carry.  We become more attuned to our own needs versus focusing on how others have hurt us.  Marianne Williamson said “Unforgiveness is like drinking poison yourself and waiting for the other person to die.”  How true.  We hold on to our anger, hurt, and grievances like a badge of holy sacrifice, hoping that others will rectify our sorrow through humble homage to us.  We are harming ourselves when we cannot forgive.  Forgiveness is not easy.  There are atrocities that appear to a reasonable person as unforgiveable—murder or sever abuse.  It may take years to relinquish our heartfelt disappointment, but each person makes the choice.

No one can make the decision for us to forgive.  We have all suffered injury and disenchantment.  Even when we think we have forgiven someone, we realize that we may still hold remnants of our suffering.  Releasing our sorrows around forgiveness challenges our sense of fairness.  When we have been betrayed, abused, or lose trust there is a deep puncture to our hearts.  An emotional scar surfaces to remind us of our pain.  We cannot undo our experiences, but we can renew our spirit through forgiveness.   No one escapes being hurt or hurting others—NO ONE!   There is a song that says, “Hurt People–Hurt People”.  It is our tenderness from being harmed that entangles us in the knots of unforgiveness.  Dipping in and out of our sorrow and woundedness is human nature.  It is important to remember when the echo of our suffering reverberates in our souls, we can choose a healing path.  Forgiveness is not a cavalier pronouncement that immediately severs our injury.  It is an expedition with ups and downs that awakens parts of us that we wish we never had to face.  Eventually we must determine how much emotional investment we want to make in our misery.  How long will we hold on to something that is inhibiting our aliveness?  What price is too high for unforgiveness?  We must ask:  How would forgiveness heal me and render me more whole?

Action:  I want to forgive__________    My forgiveness will heal me in the following ways…

IMAGINE WELLNESS

If you woke up tomorrow morning and you were completely healed, how would your life change?  Your imagined miracle healing is based solely on changes you make; not how you want others to change.  Perfection is not the goal.  The objective is achieving a meaningful life filled with happiness that elevates your confidence and acknowledges your most authentic self.  There is only ONE YOU—unique, distinctive, and extraordinary. Contemplate mobilizing your unrivaled attributes for the betterment of yourself.  How would you feel?  Describe your new life perspectives?  How would your attitude shift?  How would your habits change?  Challenging ourselves to assess where we are in the present moment increases our potential for future change.  Imagining new possibilities gives birth to self-renewal and relinquishes old ways of being. Giving ourselves permission to welcome the neglected fragments of our being serves our greatest good.  We are meant for wholeness, happiness, and abundance.  We are destined to make a difference with our lives—the choice is ours on how we impact the circle of life.  Use your imagination to design an open-hearted future.

Rumi said “Set yourself on fire.  Seek those who fan your flames.”  Set yourself on fire with your passions and unique purpose.  Commit to your ideals and pursue your aspirations.  Look around you—who is fanning the flames of your heartfelt dreams?  Are you serving as your own advocate or are you waiting for someone else to give you permission to live enthusiastically?  Become the fire that lights up the world with your brightness and blaze your way into wholeness with love.  Time is our gift–24 hours a day is bestowed to all equally.  Use your time wisely as it is through your thoughts and behaviors you will carve your history in stone.  As sand through the hourglass, your life seeps second-by-second into the future.  Dream yourself into a desired destiny.

We are HEALERS.  Imagine WELLNESS.

Question: How can you use your imagination to heal?  What ONE choice would have the greatest impact?

HEALING TREASURES

What healing treasures are dormant within you?  Unrestricted abundant resources surge through your entire being freely and unceasingly?  There are no restrictions on accessibility.  We have continuous and numerous daily options to heal and rebuild our lives.  These unlimited and free-flowing assets are available any time and they cannot be stolen, but many of us rob ourselves through limiting beliefs.  We reveal our humanity by how well we cultivate our healing treasures.  Our wellbeing is in our hands.  Each trait listed below is something that cannot be purchased—only enhanced through intention, experience, and practice.

No mysterious code or special entry fee is required for developing these healing forces.  In every moment we are choosing how our existence will make a difference.  Seek the therapeutic treasures inherent within and manifest life’s richness.  Choice and action are universal conduits to change.  When unused, they become stones that block our route to happiness.  Creating a clear future vision supported by mindful choices and deliberate actions invigorates our lifeforce.  We become the wizard that holds the magic wand when we tap into the healing resources we all hold within.  Unshackle your mind and embrace life.  Make a choice today to focus on one of the attributes above and begin to awaken and stir the genius of you.  What will you recognize within yourself that you have overlooked or minimized?  How may you heal your life from the inside-out?

Question:  How will you uncover and utilize your healing treasures?