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Angelights
Newsletter #9 - February 2008
Self Love For
Valentines
February, the month of Valentine's Day, is the perfect time to look inside and see what blocks us from treating ourselves with the love and respect we so easily give to others. I am on a Soul -full journey with 23 other amazing women that my friend Joan Wood and Nancy Anderson have created in their up and coming book Soul Weight. If you want to be part of the next journey or for more info, contact Joan Wood or Nancy Anderson. But as we are all one, you are all on the journey with us. It is all about releasing the weight on our souls so that we can live completely and freely in our JOY and passions. One of the core concepts is to discover what is weighing on us and what makes us feel lighter. Once we are aware, then we can do less of what weighs on us and more of what makes us feel lighter. I encourage you to make that list too. By sitting and writing it down you may for the first time concretely see what you haven't seen or known. What came up for me as a large weight is feeling responsible for others happiness. It was taught to me from my tribe....my parents, church and society. Doing for others and thinking of others first was virtuous. Doing for me was selfish. If someone needed something, I must find a way to help. I have healed so much from this but a stubborn small root has remained that manifests at times as guilt with self care and joy and happiness at giving that can spur on the giving to an unbalanced level resulting in resentment. I am in the process, as many of you are, of balancing the giving and receiving with love and compassion for myself.
Kate Spreckley
described this well in her 2008 Feb Newsletter. She
describes how we are taught in our society to either be the Master
or the Servant. The Master dominates and controls and
uses power over others. The Servant gives up their power to
others and puts others happiness and needs first.
Neither is balanced and connected to our Spirit's needs and
disconnects us from our Source/ God/ Creator that always loves us.
It is very black and white thinking. There is a whole rainbow
of colors and options in between. When we live truly moment to
moment we can assess what the loving action is in the moment.
Then that umbrella of thinking only of others or only of ourselves
can lift. Doing what is right for us is always a loving
action.
So none of
this is new knowledge for you. I've been writing about self
love, self acceptance and self care in my newsletters for years
because it is the heart of our pain and our JOY, but just imagine if
you believed it. If you can bring the knowing in your head, to
a KNOWING in your heart, to a living it in your life!
It's time to act on it. Ask yourself as Joan and Nancy have us
doing....What would loving myself look like in this situation?
Imagine what
your life would be like if it was ok and honorable to do what is
right for YOU. How could that freedom manifest? How much
more time and energy would you have? How would loving yourself
help those around you to love themselves? Can you see how that
is how we bring peace to earth? The magic is that loving, connected
people love others more than resentful, tired people can.
It's a win- win for all.
This week in
the Soul Weight journey is the Wind week...so with the rest of
us...allow the wind to take away those old, core beliefs that no
longer serve you. Go in deep and discover what is blocking you
from loving yourself or allowing others to love you. Then take
a breathe and move to freedom. Start imagining and visualizing
and making different choices. Know that we are all cheering
you on. Taking care of you, loving you, being there for
you is a choice...choose YOU. I am choosing ME right with you. Remember
the only person you will be with your entire lifetime is YOU.
That is the most important relationship you have. So take the
time this month to get to know you and love that beautiful person
that we all love.
May your
February be filled with love, JOY, passion and abundance in all its
forms.
Much love,
Jackie
Eaton
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