TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
Are you your biggest critic? I sometimes am – I’m always looking for perfection. But I have a trick up my sleeve for changing my perspective: I try a little tenderness. That means loving myself exactly as I am, especially those parts of my personality and body I wish were different.
How about you? Do you love yourself just as you are? Or do you judge yourself harshly? Think of how difficult it would be if you were working on a new project and a drill sergeant was hovering over your shoulder shouting at you – telling you how inept you are, screaming into your ear that you’re worthless and have no talent and how could you possibly think you could handle that new project. Part of loving yourself is catching your mind when it goes into self-criticism.
If your focus is on what you don’t like about yourself, you’ll attract more of the same: images in the mirror you don’t like and aches and pains you don’t want. That’s what it’s like if you’re trying to create new habits in the face of self-judgment. The love I’m talking about gradually ripples out and touches the whole of humanity.
Moment to moment we’re creating our lives. Often, we’re not even consciously aware that we’re creating. Our thoughts, beliefs and memories are influencing what we’re creating, even at a cellular level: every day 300 billion cells in our body die and new ones are created without our conscious direction. Emotionally, we are more likely to experience events that stimulate the emotions we ‘practice’ most often. Of course, we don’t want to be creating more insecurity or Covid weariness, but as we concentrate on these emotions, we’re creating more of the same. When you surrender critical thoughts of yourself and open to inspiration, your steps are taken not alone, but with the Divine. And with the Divine, you walk with joy.
Love and Blessings,
Ellen
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