 There is never a reason to think badly about yourself.
You can make mistakes, react from a place of hurt, seem unsuccessful in whatever area, not look like the models, or procrastinate for ages on realizing your dreams. Others may be angry at you, walk out of your life or tell you there’s something wrong with you. Still, no reason to think badly about yourself. Becoming aware of how you want to be in life, towards yourself and others, yes. Taking care of yourself where you feel hurt, yes. But talking yourself down, looping thoughts of failure and not good enough? Unnecessary. If you want to step out of the habits of suffering of course. My path into self-love invites me over and over to keep choosing loving eyes towards myself, no matter what. Even in moments when it seems impossible! Every time I take that leap, of choosing a more loving perspective, it changes my life, for the better. That’s something thinking bad about myself has never done for me 🙂 You don’t have to earn good thoughts about yourself you know. You don’t have to prove something first before you’ll be worthy enough. It really doesn’t matter where you come from or what you have or haven’t done. You’re always always always worthy of good thoughts about yourself, of seeing yourself in the best light. It simply is how life is already loving you, right now, and in every moment.  Meeting autumn. Meeting the grey outside. Meeting change in my life. Meeting myself changing. Dancing with it all. Sometimes smoothly, sometimes with a lot of resistance. This wonderful and most unpredictable dance, this being human. Being spirit. Being it all. As I dance, through these days, through this illusion of time, I keep discovering. New desires, new boundaries, new perspectives, new ways of being with myself. Clearing away so many layers, of what I’ve been not. To see my own eyes, towards myself, so very beautifully, break open to love.  This life, my love, is no ordinary thing. You are not put here, to just get through your days. To just feel lost and in search of something you’re not even sure about. There is something here. Much closer than you’d expect. It’s not over there, where grass seems so green. It’s here, in your hands. While doing the dishes, writing a song, sitting on a couch, fighting a fight. It’s here and it wants to show you. Something new. Something that rises from within you. Something that will make you fall, in love, so deeply, that you don’t even feel the need anymore, to reach, for all that grass. Because this life, this love, is no ordinary thing. And it will give you, your own fields of gold, if you let it.  Isn’t it just so very wonderful, that joy and pleasure come from feeling connected with yourself? Not from how someone else is treating you, or from what is happening around you. But from... you! From the one that is always around, never leaves your side, is always available for you. And yes, it’s not always easy to trust that, if you’ve been feeling disconnected from joy for some time. But, from experiencing this myself over and over again, this joy that lives inside of you, is so very strong. Even if you only feel a subtle spark of joy in the midst of real dark times, this spark is capable of transforming the disconnect, and bring you back to life. Back to the feeling of really living. Where creativity is flowing, and life is again there to be enjoyed so deeply by you. Every wave of disconnect holds this potential. Of more joy that wants to flow into your life. And sometimes you just move through some waves of disconnect, and that’s okay. Nothing’s gone wrong. You just take a breath. Hold yourself. Take as good care as you can. Look at yourself with kind eyes. Cry your heart out. Be a couch potato for a while. Talk to a friend. And then return to that spark, again and again. And slowly, breath by breath, this spark will grow, and before you know it, it will take over your life :)  Hier is waar ik tot rust kom, waar ik me werkelijk thuis voel, waar oplossingen en antwoorden simpelweg naar me toe komen, waar een genieten tevoorschijn komt dat het leven zo geweldig fijn maakt.
Hier, in de verbinding met mezelf. Hier, waar ik me laat ontspannen in wát er ook in of om me heen gebeurt. Hier, waar mijn adem door me heen stroomt en me leidt naar die levendige stilte in mezelf. Hier is waar ik veilig ben, en waar vanuit mijn leven steeds weer zo prachtig opbloeit. |
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