Thursday, February 14, 2008

Self Love

We are here on this day of love to share our love with you. You as beings on this planet do not fully understand that abundant love is here for you always. You experience much of the love you have in the context of a relationship with a partner. This is just one demonstration of love.
There is much much more. Of course there is self love. This is the one that is the most pertinent in our conversation today. For no other love can exist without this. You must know of the feeling of love for yourself to share it or to extend it to another. Your self love seems to be a problem these days for you are not always certain that you deserve it. We say yes, you not only deserve but this is the only way to allow yourself to thrive. The love that you have for you is the extent which you can experience it in the world. You will never find anything in the world that deserves your love more than you.
When you have the love for yourself that we speak of it is an expanding love. It encompasses all that you do in every day. It is the thing that gets expressed as love to others. You simply expand it out and share it every where you go. The love that you find in the relationship with yourself is the same that you have in any relationship. It is not a separate love. It is just how you choose to express it in the world.
You have had relationships where it has been perhaps not as kind and we tell you this is not love. Love is the purest expression of your kindness. If it is unkind, it is something else being expressed. To have the love that you desire in the world, there needs to be love in your world, your inner world. The outer world takes care of itself because others will always seek out love and if you are an expression of it, there will be many who will share it with you.
You have asked to have love in your life. This is why we tell you here. The love starts with you. You are the impetus for all the love you experience in the world. Any and all love that you hope to find out there first needs to be generated in you. You may feel like you have been searching out there for a long time, being disappointed that no one has brought you love.
Know now that all that is needed is your expression of love, first for yourself, then for the world. You can have all that you desire once you have it for yourself for all will expand outward. It is like living in a love bubble. You are the one that generates it. Anyone can come into your sphere and experience it.
Now, you may say it is not safe, many do not wish me well and could hurt me if I love like that. We say yes, you are right. Any time you feel as though someone can do you harm, you pull back. Your love pulls inward not to be shared. This causes relationships that are not loving. You are used to this. You have no expectation that others will love you and for the most part this is how you experience life. You say you can’t just share your love, you would become too vulnerable. You are already vulnerable. When you pull your love away, in fear you will get hurt, it hurts you. There becomes no opportunity to share love.
When you love yourself and extend it to others there is no vulnerability. You are safely protected in loves arms. There is no retreat. Others will feel it too and become excited, invigorated with the love and will rise to meet it with their own.
Ok, so you say, how do I love myself so much? I can barely look at myself some days? We know you have an issue with this. Love is not having everything exactly as you desire it, love is sharing with yourself the energy that allows for everything you desire. The vibration of love is fertile ground for all desires. When you love you, anything you choose to create can thrive. And still you say how? Allow it. Allow yourself to love and honor yourself. Stop telling yourself the things that you are not and start allowing yourself the knowing that you are a divine being, perfect in this creation, poised to the life that you desire. There is nothing wrong and there never has been.
It is a journey where you can choose to love, or not. We say choose love. It is way better. The experiences available with love surpass any dramatic adventures given by your separation from it. Again you say, I have tried to love and I have been rejected. You have rejected yourself. Choose to love yourself instead. Yes, it is that easy. Choose to love yourself and when you notice that you are not loving yourself, choose it again. Do not think this is selfish for water cannot be given from an empty well. And love cannot be generated where it does not exist. Love yourself first, then love the world. We will leave you with this now.