How The Experience Came to be...
Recently I put a post on Facebook saying that there was something about how there are people on Facebook that do not ever put their own image on their page or anywhere to be found on Facebook. I had been thinking about that in the back of my mind for quite a while and I realized that it bothered me. I was not exactly sure why, but it just did. Then, I had the realization that it bothered me because in this world of social media, we are connecting more with each other than ever, but on another level we are missing that human element or touch. And in turn by not ever showing your face or any images of your form it feels like even more of a separation...
I believe one of the main missions or purposes (if not the ONLY mission) in this life that we are meant to be doing, is healing any kind of separation; with others and with ourselves. I realized that is why it bothered me. The Internet that is supposed to bring us closer together, and in many ways it does. But on some level it is still keeping us separated from each other with the illusion that were actually becoming close.
I respect everyone's right on the Internet and social media to keep their identity a secret if that's what they choose. What I am talking about is really not about that. It is about what I feel is very sad, which is this pseudo-connections that can happen on social media instead of true real connection. I know this might seem hypocritical of me to say because I'm all about the mystic path and your spiritual life, but the ego can play crazy games with us by letting us hide and not be completely authentic and real and vulnerable. As A Course in Miracles says, it's our vulnerability that is our strength. It is our vulnerability that connects us with people and it is our vulnerability that heals the separation between us and others, between us and the Divine Source and most importantly between us and ourselves.
After I posted this revelation on Facebook there were a few people that sadly commented about how they "hate" or "despise intensely" seeing images of themselves. I have to be very honest, this literally hurt my heart to hear people talking about themselves in that way. And then I thought if it hurts my heart to hear people talking about themselves like this, how must their heart feel…?
And if I only heard from these few people, there MUST many many more living in this state of mild to extreme self hatred and lack of a healed relationship with themselves...
You see the only real relationship your going to have your whole lifetime is the relationship you have with yourself and if that relationship with yourself at its core is based on "hating" or "despising" yourself even to a slight degree, there is something major to be healed... Of course in the human form we all have times of self-doubt and even of self-loathing. In many ways that's normal. But, what I am trying to address here is an under lying vibration of not accepting ourselves for who we are. This underlining vibration of not accepting our physical form is just a reflection of how we are not accepting our spirit and our inner life. The bottom line is that it is a definition problem of who we think "we "really are and all the reasons we are not worthy or acceptable.
I will be honest with you, I come from a place where I didn't like myself very much and in fact wanted to be someone other than me for many years. I had my times of self-doubt and of self-loathing. But, I came to the realization many years ago that unless I started to really heal my relationship with myself there was no way that I could ever have the life that I wanted, or be a truly peaceful and happy being. You could even say that almost all my work is based on my journey of healing my relationship with myself. That relationship with myself has taken many turns over the years, but my commitment to connecting with my true self and not what my ego was telling me was me, has been the joy of my life and I've experienced and see the incredible positive results from that commitment. It has opened up my heart and it has changed everything about my life.
I know that when you're "right" with yourself your "right" with the world. And when you're "right" with the world everything flows and really that's when you live in the magic of life...
Now, coming back to the Facebook post and these reactions that I read, I have to tell you that I felt a strong calling deep inside to reach out and help in some way or another. Over all my years of study, application and research of healing our relationship with ourselves I have come across many techniques and tools. All of them have had value and have contributed to healing my relationship with myself in many ways. I have taught many of these to students and private clients also.
But sometimes healing our relationship with ourselves can be just matter of changing our habits; the habits of what you are saying to yourself about yourself and what you're saying to yourself about your life and life in general. I have a mantra that I say every morning before I get out of bed and this mantra is so simple, but soooo powerful. I attribute this mantra to much of my peace and healing my relationship with myself and the world. As they say, less is more and a simple mantra said over and over and over again can change everything. It can change everything if we commit to it because we're finally done feeling bad about ourselves and our about life.
This incident called to my heart. It called to my soul.... In the following weeks I lead 2 rounds of "Love Yourself, Love Your Life" Challenges to surprising success for the participants. The process inspired me so much that I sat down and began to put together a whole comprehensive program in helping people to use the power of LOVE to heal themselves and attract the amazing life I know they can have.
This work has become the "I Love Myself, I Love My Life 12 Week Experience"...
To give some more information and teaching about the concepts, I filmed 4 full length videos all about the power of LOVE. You may want to check them out if you are inspired to do so...
Love,
I believe one of the main missions or purposes (if not the ONLY mission) in this life that we are meant to be doing, is healing any kind of separation; with others and with ourselves. I realized that is why it bothered me. The Internet that is supposed to bring us closer together, and in many ways it does. But on some level it is still keeping us separated from each other with the illusion that were actually becoming close.
I respect everyone's right on the Internet and social media to keep their identity a secret if that's what they choose. What I am talking about is really not about that. It is about what I feel is very sad, which is this pseudo-connections that can happen on social media instead of true real connection. I know this might seem hypocritical of me to say because I'm all about the mystic path and your spiritual life, but the ego can play crazy games with us by letting us hide and not be completely authentic and real and vulnerable. As A Course in Miracles says, it's our vulnerability that is our strength. It is our vulnerability that connects us with people and it is our vulnerability that heals the separation between us and others, between us and the Divine Source and most importantly between us and ourselves.
After I posted this revelation on Facebook there were a few people that sadly commented about how they "hate" or "despise intensely" seeing images of themselves. I have to be very honest, this literally hurt my heart to hear people talking about themselves in that way. And then I thought if it hurts my heart to hear people talking about themselves like this, how must their heart feel…?
And if I only heard from these few people, there MUST many many more living in this state of mild to extreme self hatred and lack of a healed relationship with themselves...
You see the only real relationship your going to have your whole lifetime is the relationship you have with yourself and if that relationship with yourself at its core is based on "hating" or "despising" yourself even to a slight degree, there is something major to be healed... Of course in the human form we all have times of self-doubt and even of self-loathing. In many ways that's normal. But, what I am trying to address here is an under lying vibration of not accepting ourselves for who we are. This underlining vibration of not accepting our physical form is just a reflection of how we are not accepting our spirit and our inner life. The bottom line is that it is a definition problem of who we think "we "really are and all the reasons we are not worthy or acceptable.
I will be honest with you, I come from a place where I didn't like myself very much and in fact wanted to be someone other than me for many years. I had my times of self-doubt and of self-loathing. But, I came to the realization many years ago that unless I started to really heal my relationship with myself there was no way that I could ever have the life that I wanted, or be a truly peaceful and happy being. You could even say that almost all my work is based on my journey of healing my relationship with myself. That relationship with myself has taken many turns over the years, but my commitment to connecting with my true self and not what my ego was telling me was me, has been the joy of my life and I've experienced and see the incredible positive results from that commitment. It has opened up my heart and it has changed everything about my life.
I know that when you're "right" with yourself your "right" with the world. And when you're "right" with the world everything flows and really that's when you live in the magic of life...
Now, coming back to the Facebook post and these reactions that I read, I have to tell you that I felt a strong calling deep inside to reach out and help in some way or another. Over all my years of study, application and research of healing our relationship with ourselves I have come across many techniques and tools. All of them have had value and have contributed to healing my relationship with myself in many ways. I have taught many of these to students and private clients also.
But sometimes healing our relationship with ourselves can be just matter of changing our habits; the habits of what you are saying to yourself about yourself and what you're saying to yourself about your life and life in general. I have a mantra that I say every morning before I get out of bed and this mantra is so simple, but soooo powerful. I attribute this mantra to much of my peace and healing my relationship with myself and the world. As they say, less is more and a simple mantra said over and over and over again can change everything. It can change everything if we commit to it because we're finally done feeling bad about ourselves and our about life.
This incident called to my heart. It called to my soul.... In the following weeks I lead 2 rounds of "Love Yourself, Love Your Life" Challenges to surprising success for the participants. The process inspired me so much that I sat down and began to put together a whole comprehensive program in helping people to use the power of LOVE to heal themselves and attract the amazing life I know they can have.
This work has become the "I Love Myself, I Love My Life 12 Week Experience"...
To give some more information and teaching about the concepts, I filmed 4 full length videos all about the power of LOVE. You may want to check them out if you are inspired to do so...
Love,
