Freedom in love.....

How do we free ourselves from the entanglements of self doubt, lack of self worth and putting others opinions about us first and foremost?  This is what I have had the opportunity to explore and embrace.  The visceral soup of emotions that surface telling us to look deeply at a wound that has just ripped open the stitches of ignorance, self placating and lies we tell ourselves to cover the pain can be a poignant moment of taking back our power.  So giving myself a time-out and beginning to look deeply at staunching the bleeding wound is the first step. How do I do this? I move into deep self care. I ask "what do I need in this moment"? Do I need to eat, rest or take a bath with epsom salts and essential oils of Lavender or Clary Sage to reduce the intensity of emotions that are threatening to cause me to lash out in anger at someone else?  And If I do lash out what am I telling myself? I am saying to my most vulnerable self that they are the source of the problem and they are the only ones who can fix me!! No this is not the truth people.....  WE are the source of all solutions to our own emotional quandaries!!  We must take the power back and love ourselves with deep compassion and carry that wounded part of ourselves to a safe place of quiet, calm love.  Loving ourselves back into the healing state of peace and tranquility where we see ourselves as beautiful, amazing souls who walk with grace upon this earth doing our best.  Then like the phoenix who emerges from the fire and ashes we get to fly with our big beautiful wings into the sky and glide on the air currents of our own breath and become our highest selves remembering who we really are which is Divine beings in human form here to love our selves and others who we come in contact with everyday.  LOVE is the answer here......to deeply love ourselves and too deeply love others to the extent of moving past comfortable vulnerability.  To expose our under bellies of pain and shattered dreams that live in the beautiful parts of our soul.  To show someone our soul with all it's imperfections and beautiful prisms of color that live there is the most important gift we can offer each other and it is all that we are, just energy in the form of a body that feels these myriad of emotions and sensations.  This body that longs to be touched and healed to feel the love of someones else's reflection of me in their eyes and for me to reflect back that beautiful soul to them as well.  This is the work of loving someone and loving ourselves through the process.  So when you look at your lover look deeply into their eyes until you find yourself and then love them more.  Show them the ultimate love by taking care of yourself and bringing yourself to a place of compassion for all the imperfections you think you have and all the doubt and fear that lives in them.  Show them who you are by your willingness to open your heart up bigger and more exposed than ever before.  Rise into the light of who you are as a Divine being not just a human being with flaws but a God and Goddess with the power of beauty beyond anything that this world has to offer.  SHOW them THIS part of you and let the rest fall away into oblivion. Merge with the one you love by loving yourself more and more deeply.  This is the way out of the emotional entanglements of insecurity when we make someone else's reflection of us more important than the one we have of ourselves.  So look at you and love you knowing that you are Divine and nothing less than perfection.  KNOW how much you are loved by the Divine and that that spark that lives in your soul is perfect and defines you as a being here having a human experience.

This is dedicated to myself and the one I love, may we learn to love ourselves more and more each day and reflect that perfection back to each other.

Blessings beautiful souls!!

AnnKathleen