Continued from “How DO I Love Me? (Let Me Count the Ways), Parts 1 and 2
https://liciaberry.com/blog/2010/03/15/how-do-i-love-me-part-2/
A Self Love Ritual
If you’ve been looking for a way to create a new spark in your relationship with yourself, a love ritual might be just the idea for you!
Try this exercise: light a candle in a quiet room where you won’t be interrupted. Invite your highest aspects in to the ritual to assist you (whoever you feel they may be…use your words….highest teachers, masters, angels, Source, etc.)
Read this passage excerpted from the bible, and while reading it, feel as if the words are written for you (they are). Imagine you are reading this to yourself, who is sitting across the flame from you. Feel the words go into your heart.
“Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.”
–I Corinthians 13:4-8
Can you allow yourself to feel this great love for you? Are you open to the possibility that when these words were spoken by the master Jesus, that he was indeed speaking about loving yourself unconditionally?
Notice the feelings that come up while you read this to your Beloved Self. What beliefs do you hold about yourself that prevent you from experiencing this kind of love? Write them down. Then, in this ceremonial space, set the intention to release those beliefs. Breathe deeply with each intention to seat it in your body. You may even want to burn those pieces of paper with the old, outdated beliefs written on them. Then, to replace those outdated beliefs, you can set intentions to:
*Love my self unconditionally
*Experience and embody the unconditional love that I truly am
*Allow the flow of unconditional love from Prime Source to flow through me and radiate outwards to all I come in contact with
*See myself as Angelic Consciousness and Prime Source see me, and Love myself as they love me
Close the Love Ritual by thanking your Beloved Self/Prime Source/ Angelic Consciousness/all of your helpers for guiding you.
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
-Buddha
You are a miracle. You have within you incredible power and beauty. Your inner power and beauty give you the freedom to find success (however you define it), peace, love, self-confidence, and the joy of aliveness. It is your birthright to experience life and its deepest satisfactions.
In making those choices every day to love ourselves as we would love our child or our tenderest lover, and taking action to do sweet things for ourselves, we literally change our reality. We feel more at peace in the world, we attract more joyful opportunities and intersections, we draw more love into our lives, and life becomes the miracle it was intended to be (and it really is!)
“i found god in myself
& i loved her
i loved her fiercely.”
– Ntozake Shange
