Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise Hay
Setting out to heal myself has been such a liberating journey for myself. It’s also been a scary one, and a hard one at times. It’s hard in the sense that to heal myself I also needed to confront myself. Confront the way I had been living. It also meant learning to accept myself for who I am. That last part is one of the hardest things I ever had to do. For so long, I shied away from looking myself in the eyes in the mirror. It was very hard to do. All I saw, looking back at me was a person whom I believed was ugly. To me all I saw was a person whose nose was too big, or his beard was a different color than his hair was. (It was red, and my hair was strawberry blond.) Or my complexion wasn’t clear or flawless enough. That was all I could see. I couldn’t see beyond that for so long. Until I started to really take the time to work on myself. To begin the journey of self love and acceptance.
Acceptance is a hard journey. To not only Accept ourselves for who we are, but to also accept things have happened to us, good and bad, and that they are a part of our growth and learning. Hopefully we learn from our missteps and stumbles in life. It’s easy to just sit there and wish we did this or that differently. What if we tried harder? What if we were nicer, or funnier, or better looking. What exactly would be better or good looking? Such notions are only what we think they should be, not what they may be. What if. What if. There comes a time in our lives that we must accept that what has happened to us. Happened. And perhaps it could not have happened any other way. We can learn, in time, to let go. Many of us, myself included, want to control so much of our lives. That we sometimes forget that much is out of our hands, and all we can do is just enjoy the ride.
If we can learn to accept ourselves we can even learn to start to love ourselves. One of the most important things we can ever do for ourselves, but also one of the hardest things to do. You would think it would be so easy to “just love ourselves.” Yet it’s not so easy. We can be the harshest critics of ourselves. We can easily judge ourselves. To look in the mirror, look right into our own eyes, and tell ourselves, “I love you. I truly do.” That is not so easy. We create such a distorted image in our minds of what we think we should look like. That we stop and forget to see ourselves. To see who we truly are. To see that we are beautiful from the inside out. We have our own beauty. That makes us who we are. We are all unique, beautiful, and different in our own ways. The world would be pretty boring if we all looked the same.
It’s time that we all start to heal that pain within ourselves. For when we heal ourselves we radiate that healing out of us. When we radiate that healing out of us it radiates to others. And they can start to heal themselves. When we heal ourselves and better our lives that same healing goes out into the world and they see what we are doing and know they to can live that life. They too can do what we have done and do.
So today when you are looking into a mirror and want to tear yourself down. Take a time to stop the negative talk. Stop that self hate for a moment. Look into your eyes. And tell yourself, I love you. I love you fully and completely. Just the way you are. You are perfect to me. That may be one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself today. Don’t get me wrong. It won’t be easy to say that. We may chuckle at it. We may even turn away from ourselves. We may even want to reject it. In time, we will start to come around. We will start to see the love for ourselves. We will start to not only be able to say it, we will star to be able to truly believe it. And that is when the magic starts to really happen for ourselves. We start to appreciate things more. We start to appreciate ourselves. We start to be more positive in our lives. That is when the miracles start to happen. When we live in a state of positivity and love.
It’s time to let love in. It’s time that we turn on that light within ourselves. That we are lovable. That we deserve love. That we deserve good things in life. It’s time we become the caretakers of our own happiness. Our happiness comes from within us. It’s time we let it out. It’s time to love and be happy.
— Jason