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There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:
This is me damn it!
I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel,
love the way I love! I am a whole complex package.
Take me… or leave me.
Accept me – or walk away!
Do not try to make me feel like less of a person,
just because I don’t fit your idea of who I should be
and don’t try to change me to fit your mold.
If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.
When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad –
you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.
Stacey Charter
Do you love and accept you?
Our relationship with ourselves forms the blueprint for all the relationships in our life. To the degree that you judge yourself you will judge others. To the degree that you accept yourself you will accept others.
If you have been attempting to change the world around you in order to experience greater peace and joy, then you have been directing your attention to the wrong place. To make changes in your life – you must begin with your relationship with yourself. Start today, love and accept yourself.
Inspired Life Exercise: Accepting and Loving Yourself
- Complete the Inspired Life Exercise: How to Love Yourself
- Make time each day to cultivate a loving relationship with yourself – in your thoughts, words and actions – making a list of what you are grateful for; acknowledging your accomplishments; identifying the gift in the challenges you experience (Not sure how to do this, then make it up!); when you look at yourself in the mirror declare aloud (allowed), I Love You!
- When you hear yourself being judgmental about yourself – STOP – acknowledge yourself for noticing and have a new thought.
- What do you notice when you consciously focus your attention on accepting and loving yourself?
Today’s Power Statement: As I cultivate a loving and accepting relationship with myself, my heart opens and I am more loving and accepting of others.
Susyn Reeve 
I liked this! I think I’ll have to do this challenge- Heavens knows I need to lol
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I’d love to hear how you do on this challenge of loving yourself.
I just spent some time on your blog – it’s great.
I know for all-most-many of us women that we can get so focused on men — what they do or don’t do; say or don’t say that we get lost. What are we losing? Our loving connection with ourselves. Then over time when we are disconnected from ourselves — what is there for a man to actually connect with? So I am thrilled that you are up for Loving Yourself…
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Indeed, positive thoughts are always positive. After all, we are what we think when we think.
“Our relationship with ourselves forms the blueprint for all the relationships in our life. To the degree that you judge yourself you will judge others. To the degree that you accept yourself you will accept others.”
The first question is, what causes the “judgment thought”? The second question, related to the first is, “who is judging?”
Rula – I so very much appreciate your thoughtful comments. You raise very important questions. Being aware that the judgment is generated from an aspect of ourselves that is actually calling out for love – getting our attention through the judgments opens the door for us to embrace all of us. Realizing that “it is all good.”
Yes, the judgment is a form of nonacceptance. It’s also basically generated by way of comparison, which is how we live our lives. Judging is living by comparison. I cannot be ‘high’ without someone else being ‘low’. I cannot be ‘good’ without someone else being ‘bad’. How do we get out of this life by comparison? Do you feel it is possible?
Rula,
Yes, judgment is a form of comparison. It is based on the idea of separation… I do feel that is it possible to evolve our way of perceiving and that it takes practice, practice, and more practice since we have learned this way of seeing the world. Becoming aware of our judging mind is the first step in seeing that — good or bad is an idea, and actually changes based on how we view circumstances. Shakespeare’s word’s are a powerful reminder of the role of our thinking in the judgments we make, “Nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
Beautiful. Thank you 🙂