Daily Self Love

This one comes courtesy of the Great and Powerful Kisma. She has modeled this for me for years and recently shared her secret with it. It changed my life, and I hope it does the same for you.

See, sometimes, when we make a decision, we accidentally slip back into the INDECISION.

We back-pedal in our minds.

“Did i do the right thing?”
“What if I got it wrong?”
“What if it doesn’t work out? What will I do then?”

That doubting prevents you from being all in for your decision and actually sets …

You’re probably well aware of what it feels like to fall backward. Things are going great and then the wheels come off. 

There’s a feeling of loss, and hopelessness of being back at square one. 

One step forward, two steps back as the saying goes. 

But what if you flip the script on that. And look at every setback as a new opportunity. Rather than falling back, now you’re falling forward. 

It might look or feel a little awkward, but I guarantee that it’s going to get you where you want to …

Do you remember when falling down was fun? Maybe playing as a kid, not worried about looking foolish. 

Somewhere along the way, things started to get much more important, and much more serious. 

But falling down is part of life. 

Failure is not the opposite of success; It’s not separate from success. It’s a necessary step along the journey. Often many times…

To find out what doesn’t work for you. 
To identify the muscles and skills you need to develop. 
To re-evaluate your priorities. 
To dis…

Falling out is a normal thing. 

We fall out of relationships as we change and grow. We fall out of healthy habits when things get busy. 

As our lives shift and change, falling out is part of the process. 

Yet so often, we make this wrong or bad. We resist it and feel guilty. 

If you fall out of healthy habits, you might shame or punish yourself because you let that happen. Or make excuses rather than just owning it. 

In with all those mental gymnastics, it’s easy to forget that you can fa…

I wanted to share another poem from Swami Parthasarathy's Select English Poems. This one by Sabine Baring-Gould.
You'll see some of these poems scattered throughout the Mystic's Message for Self Love because they're so simple and insightful. This one is called, "The Olive Tree." The poem...

Said an ancient hermit bending
Half in prayer upon his knee,
'Oil I need for midnight watching,
I desire an olive tree.'

Then he took a tender sapling,
Planted it before his cave,
Spread his trembling hands …

I must have been about 7 years old when I made my first communion in the Catholic Church. But before I did that, I had to make my first confession.

There I was, sitting in a hard wooden pew trying to think of things I’d done wrong so that I’d have something to say. I knew you had to go in with something so I even considered making a few things up. I later learned that this is exactly what my mom did.

Ironic when you think about it. Committing the sin of lying while you’re confessing sins.

A…

If you've ever tried to think your way out of a limiting belief, you know how futile and frustrating it can be.

Inside you is limitless potential. The Divinity in disguise, remember? On the one hand, I know this can be very inspiring; this idea of an ocean of amazingness largely unexplored, just waiting.

I also know that this can be frustrating as we try to unlock it.

Similar patterns play out in our lives. We find ourselves back a square 1- or so it seems.

And the idea of unlocking that p…

From the time we're young we learn through imitation.

We watch our parents and families, we watch our friends, we watch our favorite characters on TV and in books, our favorite superheroes, you name it. And somewhere along the way, we start to adopt their ways. Their way becomes our way. Sometimes it can even just become an idea like, "That's just the way it's done" without even really thinking about it.

As we grow in our lives, we find new idols in business and career, people who are maybe …