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13th March 2015
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
In these times of deep, significant spiritual awakening and shifts, where you have a wealth of information and resources available at your fingertips, it has probably never been easier to identify, honour and support your inner journey towards wholeness, healing and becoming a more aligned version of yourself.
In my work as an Intuitive Life Coach, one of the fascinating features of this pilgrimage are the many different levels and flavours of self-awareness and opportunities for healing that begin to emerge once you’ve embarked on this path.
But for all your searching, trying, and trusting in the promise of the vastly improved life that beckons, it is imperative you realise the mysterious ingredient that calls your REAL self forward as the protagonist on your journey is Self-Love.
Sadly, my observation of the women I work with, across the board, is that they haven’t ever really been taught exactly what self-love is.
One of the main reasons they haven’t been taught, is because more than likely, their parents and teachers didn’t know what self-love was, that they were actually entitled to it and the huge role it plays in their overall sense of balance, meaning, happiness and purpose in their lives.
Additionally, the process of socialisation is complex and beyond the scope of this writing, but to take this idea of self-love a step farther, in its simplest form, we start as very young children acquiring the social skill-set appropriate to each increasingly sophisticated level until we become adults. And indeed, as a continuation of this theme, most of us as adults are in some way or other bound or affected by our over-arching cultural and social expectations and norms.
There is a curious aspect of the socialisation process, that unless you are firmly rooted in your knowingness about who you ARE, tends to pull you right out of communication with your unique inner perspective and voice and into the consciousness of the status quo.
Unless you are able to conjure up and become a living, breathing expression of self-love, it will always feel like there is something missing as you strive towards that place of inner completeness, contentment and peace.
You see, it isn’t really possible to have a full and authentic experience of your most sacred life, if on the most fundamental of levels, you are not connected into and in communication with your REAL self.
Your primary relationship in this lifetime is your relationship to yourself – your REAL self
With this understanding firmly established, it becomes easier and more natural for you to recognise the importance of tuning in and trusting yourself first, in every area, relationship and situation in your life.
On the contrary, when you don’t feel fully aligned with your most authentic self, it can be the cause of discomfort, spiritual restlessness, frustration and pain. Every day I see resilient, committed, determined, generous, intuitive women struggle because they haven’t yet clicked into understanding that self-love is by its very nature, deeply transformational and healing. That is, self-love is the ingredient that will ultimately underpin their process of re-defining their relationships with themselves and their world.
This came through loud and clear in the outpouring of response to my Wise Woman Within article and the free Reconnect With Your Inner Wise Woman tele-class I invited women into from there. The main themes that came up for attention again and again in responses to the preparatory questions leading up to the event were self-love and self-worth. It was fascinating to see this observation from my work with private clients mirrored on a such a large scale. In fact, I am inclined to believe that as far as spiritual awakening goes, healing and growing our understanding of ourselves in the area of self-love is a universal theme.
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