Self Love
"When you feel good about you, you are vibrating Positive Energy. When you vibrate positive energy you are positively attracting. If you are wanting all of those things to come to you ... the mate you have been wanting, the money you have been wanting, the work that is more satisfying and more fulfilling, the new house that you are wanting, the car that you are wanting - all of those things of a physical or non-physical nature that you have been wanting! The re-claiming of your perfect bodily health that you are wanting. If you are wanting any of those things that you are identifying as your desire to come into your experience, it is absolutely imperative that you come to a place of positive vibration, which means you must adore you!! If you do not like yourself, then you can want until you are blue in the face and those things that you want can not come into your experience." ~ Extract from Abraham-Hicks tape,Special Subjects, Vol. 2 (Bold highlights are mine.)
I read the above quote and even though it's grammatically a bit garbled - the Abraham material is transcribed from spoken sessions - it felt profound to me. Something in me sat up and said "YES! YES!" and did the dance of joy. Like (love) Myself. What a concept for a shame junky. "Love Yourself" is something of an oxymoron for some of us.
Most of us who are shame driven have a hard time comprehending the idea of self love. We are starving for love - seeking it from everyplace but within. I'm at a very strange place and time to be thinking about self-love. I'm out of work and living in a sufficiently isolated area that living with agoraphobia and working outside of my home is not likely to work out. I'm utterly broke and living on a loan I took out on my credit card. I have credit card debt for the first time in my life. I am buying my groceries on credit. But something in me has shifted. I am not by any means completely free of my self-judgment, but much to my amazement, I am strangely at peace about things.
I think there may be a connection in this to my practicing the "Thank you for everything. I have no complaints whatsoever," mantra I wrote about a while back ( http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/agor... ). It's hard to keep feeling sorry for yourself when you start being grateful for everything. The worse whatever happens is, the more loudly and resoundingly I chant my gratitude these days. It may be that I'm delusional, but it doesn't feel that way. It feels like my life is shifting for the better - even though on the surface of things it seems quite the opposite. The voice of self hate, the voices of Demonalia ( http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/agor... ; http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/agor... ; http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/agor... ; http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/agor... ) have no protection against gratitude. It is one of the things that stops them in their tracks and at present those cruel voices are only a barely audible whisper, which allows me to hear other, wiser voices that have long been calling out for my attention.
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