4 Self Love Rituals
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Want to feel loved, supported, and cared for?
You deserve it. You are worthy of it. You can bring in self love with rituals that you do, and as you practice them, they start to influence your beliefs. Pretty soon, self love becomes embedded in your life.
You look back on the days when it wasn't there and wonder how you ever survived at all. You did survive, and that's part of the reason why self love is needed, you’re a strong soul.
Self love rituals are important because they create a cycle of love which creates an essential feedback loop of nourishment for the soul, necessary for your growth, thriving and survival.
It doesn't matter what happened in the past, what is happening now, or how others have treated you. It doesn't matter what you've been through or what other human beings have told you.
Human beings are here to learn Divine Love, which often means that many of them are practicing it imperfectly. We grow through our soul relationships with others, and in this growing, we learn what makes us human and what makes us feel loved. Usually, at some point, we all get it. We all understand that love is all there is.
But it has to start somewhere, and today, it's going to start with you.
What always comes back time and time again in my work with Spirit, is how important it is to honor and love yourself.
Spirit always wants people to know how amazing they are. It doesn't matter what they did, how it was done, the circumstances of, or whom to.
Forgiveness is real, and it's called unconditional love, and it exists, but it must start with you.
Regardless of what your bank account says, irrespective of where you live, irrespective of the job you currently hold. Regardless of your current level of perceived physical stability.
The only true stability every one of us has is our connection and our commitment to ourselves and our commitment to love.
It's from this that all else grows, and from here that we can give to others, genuinely.
This giving from our heart leads to joy, which leads to more love.
So you'll be happy to know that if you follow some of the below steps, you are entering a feedback loop to more joy, and more love.
Below, we're going to discuss four ways that you can love yourself right now.
Forget everything that has ever happened. You are here, and you are loveable.
From here, everything else blossoms, expands and becomes greater.
4 Ways To Love Yourself More Than Ever
#1 To Love Yourself, Listen To Your Body
There is a piece of wisdom in Western Herbalism that what we need to heal is usually right outside our door. In most cases, it's in the next room or within five feet of you.
The idea stems from the knowledge that before medical doctors existed, folk healers brought with them the plant medicine they needed and planted it where they were going to be.
So the apothecary back in the day, was right outside.
You as a soul descended from these wise healers and are intuitive. You have probably already called in what you need to heal and restore yourself to total love.
When the body feels nurtured, the Spirit feels supported, and love can flow.
What around you can support your body right now?
Are you paying attention to when you're hungry? When you need a drink? What your intuition tells you about reaching out to someone or not reaching out to someone?
What does your gut tell you to do? Do you listen to that?
Listen to the voice of your body.
The best way to start listening to your intuition is by listening to your body's needs. When your body says, you are hungry, or thirsty, or could use a breath of fresh air. Step into these moments and take them.
The more you allow physical-you to speak to the soul-you, openly, the more you give your body the love and energy it asks for, the more of a love loop you allow.
Consider a ritual of taking a midday break, putting your hand on your heart, and asking your body what it needs from you.
#2 Give Yourself Compliments
Compliments and kind words are one of my love languages; they do soothe the soul and nurture the Spirit.
The soul knows what love sounds like, and will grow and flourish on love. With loving words, sounds, or even musical vibrations coming your way, you can and will flourish.
All souls thrive in loving vibrational environments, and you can start to create one with your internal dialogue.
Write inspirational sayings on the bathroom mirror, the wall in your bedroom, and on little post notes around your office.
It can be every day someone accepts you for who you are and without question. You can be that person for yourself.
If you have trouble with this at first, I recommend asking your Spirit Guides to send you positive thoughts or kind words and watch what flows in. Then use the words that flow in to support you and follow the threads for more.
You may start by complimenting yourself for the work you got done today, for example. You may congratulate yourself for how you responded to a situation differently than you would have in the past.
Consider a ritual of giving yourself five compliments at the end of your productivity day.
#3 Make A List Of How Amazing You Are
Have you ever funded an animal's end of life care? Got someone a birthday gift? Gave someone a pep talk? Have you ever won a scholarship or job offer?
This one is similar to the MindBodyGreen What's Working For Me List in their Self Love Article.
Write all this down or at least right now mentally pause. Create a mental list of some good things working for you and things that have worked out well for you in the past. Just think of like five things - five feel-good things you did where loving in return came back to you.
The reason this works is when you transition to The Spirit World, one of the things that happens is you get a Life Review.
During that time, your Spirit Team shows you all the good things you did in your life, the positive impacts you made. After that, you continue your soul journey, and you release all your baggage from Earth.
We can pause periodically and do these mini-life reviews now, for even higher ascension towards love.
Have you ever helped someone in the middle of the night? Tried your absolute best at something, even if it ultimately didn't turn out?
Took a risk, you were nervous about taking, did a ‘here goes’ moment, and jumped anyway?
This is courage. These times you were the embodiment of love.
You want to remind yourself of how you are being and how you have been the embodiment of love for others. Remind yourself of how awesome you are, and evidence of return flows of love start to return to you.
Consider a ritual of reminding yourself what is working for you whenever you feel down about money or finances. In essence, this is when it's most important to remember that things are working and what they are.
#4 Devote Time To Yourself Once Per Week
During this time, do anything that you want. Take a warm bath with essential oils, flower petals, and wine. Light candles, play music, and make it all about you. Paint your toenails, steam your skin.
Do you have a project that you are working on for self-betterment?
If you need weekly self love ritual ideas, my favorite Spirit Group for this is the Faery Realm. You can call them in with an Oracle Deck, like The Faeries Oracle.
Consider a weekly ritual doing something that you love to do, and that makes you feel loved and practice this once per week.
During this time, you may choose to use herbs for self love. Herbs good for self love are anything that makes you feel embodied in calm and relaxation. For some people, this is Vanilla or Lemon Balm.
So to recap, to love yourself more than ever
Photo of candles, incense and round brush by Elly Fairytale from Pexels
#1
Love your body by listening
#2
Give yourself compliments
#3
Make a list of how amazing you are
#4
Create a weekly routine that focuses on love
With a few of these rituals in place, you're bound to start feeling the love all around.
From there, you can extend your love outward, in ripples around the world, through your work, your offerings, or the other ways you provide gifts to the world.
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