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27 Mar 2007 16:20 (Edited: 27 Mar 2007 16:20)

Self Love

Choose carefully who to dance your web with and know that strength comes from within your circle. Rest when you need to and treat your body like your most treasured possession. Embrace your fears with courage and create a new vision from your heart.
Greet the dawn with a dream and welcome hope as your companion. Plant your feet firmly on the ground and let your roots find the source of true joy.
Discover power where pain has scorched your core. Then know in your heart that you can be loved as your true self. Be bold with the world but gentle with your heart and sing yourself a love song that rocks your soul with tender rhythms. Be patient with your mind and find the quiet place inside. Make it a place filled with violet and sleep gently there. Let its safety touch the places within that long to heal. Stay there longer than you think you need to, heal in its silence and weave new dreams from its whispers. Send your inner critic on vacation then do at least one fun thing with your inner child. Always, always smile at yourself in the mirror and let your heart be filled with love for who you were, who you are today and who you are becoming.
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I came across these beautiful healing words today and wish I knew who wrote them. We are so reflexively trained to see a title like this and think of selfishness, but self love and acceptance is the very root of wholeness and necessary to our ability to heal and have any ability to love others and be loved. We cannot give what we do not ourselves have inside of us.
We are, as Jung and depth psychology show us, spiritual beings. This is not the religious concept of spirit; this is an acknowledgement of the truth that there is more to the human psyche than neurons and electrical impulses, more to our desires and actions than pavlovian conditioning and reflexes. Deep beneath the external words and thoughts lies the unconscious and it is a world we must come to know and understand, and progress in the ongoing journey to wholeness or be forever weakened and crippled by what we refuse to examine or accept in ourselves. Know thyself. It is not just a saying, but like so many deep numinous archetypical concepts, it resonates so deeply within us because deep inside, we recognize truths. My closest, most treasured relationships come from listening carefully not just to the outer messages but what my friends’ and my souls tell us when they are most open and vulnerable. It is a beautiful privilege to connect on the level of deepest truth of who we are with friends who can trust each other with their real selves.

From Wikipedia:
The following is a summary of the primary elements of Depth psychology:
• Depth psychology states that psyche is a process that is partly conscious and partly unconscious. The unconscious in turn contains repressed experiences and other personal-level issues in its "upper" layers and "transpersonal" (eg. collective, non-I, archetypal) forces in its depths.
• The psyche spontaneously generates mythico-religious symbolism and is therefore spiritual as well as instinctive in nature. An implication of this is that the choice of whether to be a spiritual person or not does not exist - the only question is exactly where we put our spirituality: Do we live it consciously or unknowingly invest it in nonspiritual aspirations (perfectionism, addictions, greed, fame) that eventually possess us by virtue of their ignored but frightfully potent numinous power?
• All minds, all lives, are ultimately embedded in some sort of myth-making. Mythology is not a series of old explanations for natural events; it is rather the richness and wisdom of humanity played out in a wondrous symbolical storytelling. No story, no myth, and no humanness either.
• Because we have a psychical share in all that surrounds us, we are sane and whole only to the degree that we care for our environment and tend responsibly to the world in which we live.

We can invest all of our energies into creating external fantasy images that we want the world to believe but the heart that sees beyond the veil will recognize the beautiful fairy behind the image of the hag and the monster lurking behind the guise of a beauty. In the end, it is all our choice. There is no God or Goddess. But we must separate human attempts to write down the wisdoms we feel from our innermost being from the corruptions added by greed and the desire for power. If we become too cynical to love and trust love, if we think we can force, pretend or threaten it into being, we have lost touch with everything that makes our lives worth living.

Peace. May our every choice be made from love.

 

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