Soulshine

When you stand in front of that mirror and you’re beginning to cringe with discomfort, and the familiar old thought races through your subconscious mind “You are so unlovable,” remember this: You weren’t the first person who said those words to you. Someone else said them to you first. You accepted those words based on the false judgment of that person and you began the process of believing them. You started repeating them to yourself every time you looked in a mirror and you started that at a young age. You then became what you chose to believe about yourself. You made the conscious choice to believe the judgment someone else executed against you. And you can make the choice to stop believing it. Right here, right now you are the one who has to decide what you really believe about yourself. And you can choose to believe anything you want. You can choose to be anything you want. And you can choose to love what is—to love yourself just the way you are—if you really want to. ...

If you are going to say anything to yourself today, say “I Am loveable.” There are no truer words. Repeat them to yourself over and over until you believe them-- because what you believe you become. The truth is you are lovable whether you know it or not. You are the stardust of Universal Love itself. Each and every one of us is created from God particles. We are all formed by the hands of a Higher Power who fills us with the eternal energy that is Love. So remember, when you finally believe you are lovable, you will be lovable not only to yourself, but to everyone who has the eyes to see the beauty that you radiate. You project onto others what you believe about yourself. Once you choose to love who you are and to project your lovability to the world around you, people (the right people, that is) will respond to you in loving, accepting ways and life-giving ways. “I Am lovable,” “I Am lovable.” “I Am lovable”—say it until you believe it!

It’s Valentine’s Day and I’ve bought myself a bouquet of red roses. Why? Because nobody else is going to do it. And because I have to love myself enough to even care enough to do it. If I don’t care enough about me to gift myself with flowers, why should I even hope that someone else would do so, or mope around because no one has done so. If you’re not getting the love you want or expect, it’s because you are not giving yourself the proper love and respect that is essential to projecting a healthy image of yourself to the world around you. What you give to yourself, you essentially give to the world—and the world gives back to you. If I treat myself with kindness, I will treat others with kindness and others will return the kindness to me. If I treat myself with hostility, I will treat others with hostility and those same others will return hostility to me. In the same way, if I treat myself as unlovable, I will project my belief that I am unlovable to the world around me. And...