In learning to love myself, Jack Canfield shared a very
helpful tool. He suggested every day,
morning and night, to look in the mirror.
While looking yourself in the eye, say “I Love You”. This might sound a little crazy, but it is well
worth the effort.
When I started this practice, I noticed a flicker of the
eye, a looking away, a feeling within of untruth and unworthiness. As I make myself repeat this phrase, so many
things come to mind as to why I do not.
There are thoughts like, I
am over weight, the thought I am not this or not that. I’m a bad person because I have made choices
that have hurt others. I am ashamed and
angry with myself for allowing others to hurt me. I may even reason with myself, I would love
you if you didn’t do this or you didn’t do that, if you were a better parent,
daughter, sister or friend. The list
goes on.
Needless to say I Love Me conditionally! AH-HA! If I love me conditionally, how can I expect anyone else to love me
unconditionally?
Okay, so forgiveness is necessary. I need to forgive me for the hurt I’ve caused
others, the hurt I’ve allowed, the thoughtless words and actions I do each
day. So how do I do this?
This little prayer or intention has been helpful to me on
this path (saying to myself)
“I forgive you and set you free. The past no longer has power over me. You are free and I am free. Free, to be the me I am meant to be.”
As I am working with this intention, I begin to learn and understand
more about myself. Based on my experiences
and tools I have learned for handling things in my life, I am doing the best I
know how. I am perfect, whole and
complete just the way I am.
I am an all-powerful spiritual being and an individual
expression of the Divine Source that shines within me. I love me, unconditionally, fully and
completely. In this place, I remember, I
am loved and forgiven. I’m a shining
soul after all!
~ Sherry Buikema
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