3 powerful ways to gift yourself love
I was thinking about all the ways there are to give and receive love, and the immense healing power of love when we complete the circuit of giving and receiving.
Most of us feel so good inside when we give freely from our heart and our gift is received. It puts a smile on our face and we feel even closer to the one who accepted our gift. It’s a miracle of love.
But the energy feels so different if someone wants to gift us from their heart, but we don’t accept from them. We say things like, “No thanks. You don’t have to do that. It’s nice of you but not necessary.” The energy totally changes. Their face falls and we miss out on the miracle of love. We don’t feel closer. We feel a subtle weirdness between us. Instead of hugging, we usually shift away from each other.
Have you noticed that?
So that tells me there’s something about giving and receiving that creates a higher natural frequency in our energy field that makes us feel good about ourselves and closer to other people. This natural high is love.
Many of us experience this love most often with our plants and pets because they don’t judge us. They give love and accept our love freely without conditions, which allows us to do the same.
Sadly, this isn’t often the case with people. Mostly, we don’t even love ourselves unconditionally and that’s what we see reflected back to us. It can be no other way. Our idea of reality happens through our lens of thoughts, feelings, and the experience we have that we ourselves give meaning to based on our perception of reality. Our idea of reality.
And that’s as it should be. We get to experience every thought and feeling about who we are exactly as we are. No more. No less.
But what if our desire is to experience pure love? Freely. Without expectations, attachments, or conditions? What if we’ve been burned a million times by other people in the way we feel we were treated and now find it difficult to reach out to another for love?
Yet we do want love. Of course we do. We want this natural closeness with every fiber of our being. It drives us. Without it, we suffer. And so does our body. What the mind believes, so does the body. If we suffer from lack of love, our body will feel it and create many forms of lack—worth, abundance, health, friendships, etc.
What to do?
When my client was receiving chemotherapy, before each treatment he spent a little time holding the IV bag of medicine loving it and his body, attuning to and aligning with the energy in both. When he felt the powerful flow between the medicine and his body, he received into his body with great love and acceptance what the medicine had to give. Anything not in alignment, he allowed to pass from his body with ease and grace. It was a peaceful process without resistance or judgment and the end of all his previous chemo symptoms of mouth blisters, nausea, fatigue.
Love is always the answer—the giving and receiving of it no matter the form of energy consciousness.
What can you do to give love to yourself, and receive love from yourself?
Start with paying attention to your breath. Breathing is the body’s greatest need so oxygen is the body’s greatest gift. To participate in life, we need to breathe yet we take it for granted. Rarely do we appreciate the huge gift of air and our ability to receive it. Enjoy every breath—the giving through our earth and the receiving through our earth body. Pay attention to your breath and you’ll notice it fills you with calm, ease, appreciation, and love. When you focus on the enjoyment of breathing, you find yourself breathing deeper and your happiness expanding naturally.
The same is true of food. When we enjoy the gift of our food and receive it with appreciation, we naturally express with loving sounds, Mmmmmmm. This focus of enjoyment for our food increases our pleasure with every bite. We experience the pure essence of unconditional love.
When walking from one room of your home to another, notice the gift of your legs and feet and all the body mechanics that align to allow you the pure pleasure of getting where you want to go. Your body is gifting movement simply for your use and great joy. How are you receiving this beautiful gift? The way you receive completes the gift and how you experience love.
When everything in your life becomes a form of giving and receiving love, you no longer think and that’s the end of the inner critic. Your life becomes free, joyful, rich, alive, full. You find everything you do is a pleasure just because you’re alive to do it.
This week I invite you to practice a thousand ways to give and receive love. When you do, you’ll find your love reflected back in everything.
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