All You Need Is Love

All you need is love...love is all you need

February is the month to tend to matters of the heart. The day to “Wear Red” for women’s heart health is on February 7th. Valentine’s Day on February 14th. Lots of chocolate (dark, of course) and lacy valentines and lingerie and cards and roses. Lots of love being spread outward.

With all this love floating around where are you in cultivating a love affair with yourself?

Loving Yourself

Oh, I don’t mean a narcissistic love, but rather an inner knowing of your value, your worth, your delight-fulness. A knowing and a comfort with who you are and where you are in your world.

Sometimes that’s a tough one. We’d rather sit and polish off that heart full of chocolates!

How that love manifests and then projects itself out into the world is unique to each of us. When we are okay with and appreciate who we are we can do amazing things. We can change the world! (Here’s a little Eric Clapton to brighten up your day) And when we do, we give permission to others to do the same. It’s contagious!

A few examples of folks who were comfortable with who they were, their value and what they had to offer:

• A woman in a suburban NJ town recently celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by her family and students. Yes, her students. She teaches home economics, runs after school cooking and sewing programs and makes the school play costumes. And, the day after her birthday, she went right back to work. Oh, and she started when she was 81.
• You remember Grandma Moses? In her later years she developed arthritis in her hands and could no longer do needlework. So, she started painting at 71. This launched a new career that lasted for decades.
• Ray Kroc saw opportunities in fast food restaurants to whom he sold blenders. He launched the McDonalds empire at age 53.
• My own mother went to college in her 50’s (with several of her 6 children still at home), graduated with a double major, went on to grad school and started a career as a social worker at 60.

And they all did these amazing things in the second half of their lives!

There’s a certain sense of freedom in this, isn’t there? Liberation. A feeling of being launched. Maybe being launched into your real life for the first time in years!

Liberation and self love. Again, that innate knowing that you’re worth it; that you deserve to grow into your most evolved self. That you have something to offer that the world will value. A conviction that you have worth and are lovable.

Self-love is such an important part of recovering your creative power, gaining awareness of your unique gifts. Self appreciation. Courage of your convictions.

What’s waiting inside you? What jewel is sitting waiting to be polished and presented to the world? What are you waiting for?

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