Reconnect with yourself this Valentine’s Day
Today is all about celebrating love with your beloved, but whether you have a partner or friends to celebrate with you can celebrate with your most precious beloved – YOU!
So today give yourself one of the best gifts you can give yourself: the gift of time alone with your beloved self. Try to carve out a little time in your day to quieten your mind and reconnect with your soul. Then read and meditate upon these words from Osho.
Nobody has ever said to you, “Love yourself!” The very idea seems absurd — loving oneself? The very idea makes no sense — loving oneself? We always think that to love one needs somebody else. But if you don’t learn it with yourself you will not be able to practise it with others.
Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord… as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.
Try to understand the meaning of love. And you will not be able to understand the meaning of love by your so-called love affairs. Strangely enough, you will understand the meaning of love by going deep into meditation, by becoming more silent, more together, more at ease. You will start radiating a certain energy. You will become loving, and you will know the beautiful qualities of love.
If you meditate and slowly, slowly get out of the ego and out of your personality and realize your real self, love will come on its own. You don’t have to do anything, it is a spontaneous flowering. But it blossoms only in a certain climate, and that climate I call meditation. In the climate of silence — no-mind, no disturbance inside, absolute clarity, peace and silence — suddenly, you will see thousands of flowers have opened within you, and their fragrance is love.
A beautiful post, Marie!
I was pondering something similar this morning – that happy ever afters are not for someone else to give but for each of us to create for ourselves and when we truly love ourselves, although we might create a separate love with someone else and that in turn might flower and diminish, it is not the core of our love – the love we create for ourselves can never be taken from us, only abandoned, by our own self-neglect.
And I was wishing girls in particular could grow up with this idea of love instead of the traditional one where they must wait for another to arrive in order to experience happiness, when everything we need is within us all along.
Wishing you love…
ax
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Hi,
So very true. We so often don’t make time for ourselves or show our own self that we care.
This was exactly how the challenge that starts today was borne… do consciously do something YOU love or makes YOU smile every day and then to write a short blog entry about it. We also then get to share your love and sneak a smile at what you’ve been doing too… what a great way to have to remember YOU every day for 2 months.
Challenge at http://createalifeyoulove.co.uk/
Proceeds are also going to Living Beyond Diagnosis (www.LivingBeyondDiagnosis.com) who are hosting an event in London in November 2011 for anyone affected by breast cancer.
Right-O I’m off to do think about what makes me smile today… hehehe
xxx
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What a wonderful alternative to the usual Valentines Day schmaltz
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Hi,
What a beautiful thought you posted. Sometimes we forget to love ourselves first. That makes it easier to share with someone else. Hard and difficult times make me forget that I am important if to no one else other than me. I get so frustrated that I say “I hate me!” out loud. Then my husband will tell me that he will love me till I learn to again, love myself. It is good to be reminded. To get out of myself with quiet meditation helps me through some of my darkest days. Thanks for reading. Gentle hugs to all, Jill
Always try to do the next right thing
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Jill, what a lovely comment. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts with us and hold onto that husband of yours – he sounds wonderful!
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