A message from today’s meditation:
In search of some beautiful words to share for this morning’s meditation, I came across this beautiful quote on self acceptance –
“There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.” – Tara Brach
And seeing that the theme for Friday meditation is always love I wanted to share some more wisdom on finding love for your SELF…
“Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, it goes against your education, your culture. From the very beginning you have always been told how you should be, but nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are” – Osho
“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years now and the truth is that it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay
Think about this realistically. You’ve always wanted to improve, you’ve always tried to do things better and in an earnest attempt to try and “fix” yourself you’ve been a harsher judge of YOU than anyone else ever has. But the truth is that all of your past self-criticism has been ineffective because the mistakes have not stopped coming, in fact they’ve gotten worse.
Whenever you encounter FEAR about your own shortcomings, your mistakes or “what a horrible person” you are – the very next thing you do will either increase or lower that fear.
I promise you that by judging and criticizing yourself you are only amplifying the fear and nothing will get better, only worse.
When you’re able to accept and love every messy part of you, you will experience SO much less fear, and when you’re not living in fear you’ll make better decisions.
Loving yourself despite all your old choices, always leads to making better choices.
Have a happy Friday! And please be kind to your “self”.
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Sharing love.