Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.�
- Veronica A. Shoffstall
- Veronica A. Shoffstall
Although love is beautiful, it can be a very challenging subject to write. There are many definitions, versions and opinions of love. Some spend their entire lives searching for true love while others spend their lives suffering with a broken heart and pushing people away out of fear of being hurt again. Love can be a bundle of the strongest emotions and can powerfully influence our everyday life.
In my deepest opinion, true love starts within yourself. It begins with acceptance and forgiveness. Looking at yourself and knowing that you're worth it. Respecting yourself and living day to day with the best morals and ethics. No one is perfect and each and everyone of us should accept that, learn from our mistakes, and move forward.
Our past is made up of so many different types of experiences. If you have made mistakes that you're not proud of or failed miserably, stop beating yourself up over it. All you're doing is ruminating and unproductively judging yourself. Instead, you should love yourself and learn from your experiences. Dwelling on your past holds you hostage to it. Focusing on your failure can result in physiological and psychological problems including migraines, anxiety, IBS, stomach pain, depression, back pain, rapid aging, adrenal fatigue, insomnia and lowered immune system. Distorting your past with continuous lies, excuses and/or self loathing causes emotional paralysis . How can you love or accept yourself and be liberated if you're busy fighting demons, living with negative internal self talk , and drowning in daily guilt? Guilt can be dissipated by owning up to your actions and not obsessing upon your failures.
If you perceive yourself a victim of past circumstances, it's time to stop and reconstruct your self image and your interactions and move forward. Feeling as if people are always after you or giving you the short end of the stick should be a wake up call. What are you portraying to the world? Why does this victim pattern continue? Is it them or is it you? I'm not discounting that there are true victims, but there are survivors who refuse to be controlled by their negative trauma. My point is, if you carry drama wherever you go, it's time to take a new route in life to heal and be free. Love and respect your inner self.
As you all know I'm a huge advocate of developing a strong body and consistently working on increasing one�s physical strength. If you're a complete wreck inside and you're using strength training as a band-aid for your mental frailty, you may be going about it all wrong. You will end up just being a physically strong individual with a weak disposition and a load of negative baggage. You will continue to be a victim wherever you go and it will be apparent to those around you. Don't get me wrong, physical strength can alleviate mental torment. However, the real work comes from eliminating self whipping scripts and instead, striving for creative self nourishment. We come back to one thing. LOVE! Love is what makes the world go round. Demonstrate love or simple acts of loving kindness to your family, friends, and even show tolerance to those who are unkind. They deserve some form of this vital emotion called love. You will have the power to show the world what it's like to be loved by being kind, accepting , and loving.
