How To Love Yourself, Increase Your Vibrations and Improve Your Energy Levels In 13 Easy Steps

Today I wanted to share an exercise to help you when things are a bit tough. One of the most difficult and most rewarding parts of spiritual growth is learning to love oneself.

Is It Bad To Love Yourself?

Absolutely not! To be clear this is not about becoming narcissistic or egotistical in fact quite the opposite! Learning to love oneself is intrinsically linked with forgiving oneself. It doesn’t mean you have done anything particularly bad or hurtful in your life but we do tend to blame ourselves for so many things. We blame ourselves for not being as advanced as we want to be in our career, we blame ourselves for not being as financially secure as we wish or not being a good enough mother or father. We can end up being overly harsh on ourselves and this can manifest itself in physical challenges, possibly even illnesses.

The Mind Body Connection

At one point in my life I had stage 2 cervical cancer and this has been linked to women who are hard on themselves, particularly working mums. Turning this stress in on yourself can result in you being hard on your body and your internal organs, it is all deeply connected! I look very deeply into different emotions and stresses I experience and how I relate those to my body. I do try to check that I’m not turning negative emotions in on my physical body as doing this continuously can lead to chronic issues. It is interesting to think of the word ‘disease’, because it is dis-ease it is not being at ease or in balance with yourself in some way.

My Guided Exercise To Learn Self Love and Forgiveness:

You may prefer to join me in the video above and we can visualise together. But you may prefer the written format or be somewhere it’s not possible to listen so please take this exercise with you and use it wherever you can.

Step 1: Can you remember being in love, that feeling of your heart chakra opening, feeling yourself bathe in this wonderful sunshine of your loved ones love to you. It feels so glorious and nurturing and as if everything is right in the world! Take a moment to close your eyes and imagine that feeling of falling in love and being loved. Try and give that feeling a colour, maybe its a wonderful gold or a pink.

Step 2: Now begin to take that feeling and direct it to different parts of your body, begin with your feet, slowly focusing that energy on your feet, those wonderful feet that ground you.

Step 3: Slowly, start moving that energy up your body into your knees and your legs, those legs that run, those legs that you stand on for work or sport.

Step 4: Send this loving energy to your hips and your buttocks and into your reproductive organs and internal organs.

Step 5: Let it flow to your heart, your wonderful loving heart, feel your heart chakra opening.

Step 6: Let the wonderful pink-gold feeling of love flow into your spine.

Step 7: Let that loving energy flow from your spine into your arms and hands. Appreciate and send love all the way to the tips of your fingers.

Step 8: Then let that beatiful loving energy flow up your neck into your head and brain. At this stage you can even say “I love you”.

Step 9: Send the loving energy to your skin, your biggest organ. Let the loving energy flow around the outside of you.

Step 10: Send this loving energy to your soul, to your spiritual self. Tell your soul that you love it.

Step 11: Now let this loving energy grow bigger and bigger, let it grow into your aura. Then let it go beyond your aura and out into the world.

Step 12: Enjoy this wonderful feeling for as long as you want to.

Step 13: Take a deep breath and roll your shoulders and enjoy the feeling of peace. You can come out of the visualisation and open your eyes. You are now, hopefully feeling at peace and have a lot more energy to go about your day. You are now a step closer to mastering self-love and you now have the knowledge to direct love inward to yourself whenever you may need to.

True Love Starts With The Self

I hope you enjoyed this exercise. The reason I felt this was a really important one to share is because one of the biggest realisations for me was that I do not need another person to feel loved. I can purely love myself, not in an egotistical sense but the love of accepting my imperfections and forgiving my failings. When we can love and forgive ourselves we can love others. I truly believe this is where harmony in the world and with ourselves truly begins!

Have a wonderful Day