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8/28/2024 0 Comments LOVE IS... Love is a powerful force born from within and shared between us. It is a path, a way, one of the greatest lessons in living life, and one of the most fulfilling experiences of all. Sometimes, the first experience with being loved is unclear and dysfunctional then later on in life, becomes the definition of love. You may believe, somewhere deep inside that love, is actually what doesn't quite show up as love for you; it hurts, it's painful, inconsistent, neglectful, and at times, empty. And because of this experience, you might associate love with feelings of disappointment, loneliness, longing, desperation, being or becoming what you think the other wants you to be. Love then might start to look like holding onto what doesn't really want you or maybe isn't quite for you in hopes, they will realize one day that you are worthwhile to be wanted and loved. This can be consuming because love never lasted before so, you take what you can get while it's there or maybe you just hold on tighter before it leaves you alone again. Sometimes, the pain, the loss is so great that you withhold love or wait for that “one” person to give you love or you give way too much love and never really receive it fully.
You have to remember that you are loving even if your first experience or experiences thereafter were distorted and unfulfilling. If the experience of love was never the staple or healthy and sustainable for you then redefining it becomes an essential act of self-love. I encourage you to think about what love means to you and how you define it for yourself. Below is my definition, a poem and nourishing reminder of what love is to me. LOVE IS... Love is knowing what love is, for you. Love is what reflects love back to you. Love is Joy! Participation, partnership, and reciprocity. LOVE IS... CONNECTION- It’s present, calm, and genuine, with yourself and others. It’s letting go, allowing others to be who they are. Love is a natural flow. Love is realizing I AM Love. I am loving. I am lovable. Love is balanced, mutual, and soft- a surrendering. LOVE IS... Forever... Even when it's not shared or gone. Love is consistent and steadfast, unwavering within you and humanity. Love is embracing, cherished, and cared for. It’s sustainable, nurturing, and nourishing. LOVE IS... FULL AND WHOLE- It’s worthwhile and valuable. Love is worth pausing for your inner worth and value. Love does not hold onto resentment, judgements, and criticisms. - This is a form of love too. LOVE IS... INCLUSION- You must include yourself. You must be included. Love, Jennifer - Inner Beauty Blog, Love is…, Tiny Poet, 8/8/2024
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TIS` THE SEASON OF HEART
December can be a magical month for some and a fulfilling time of year. We get a chance to embrace the spirit of sharing, celebrating, and witnessing a sense of wonder and joy through the eyes of children and adults alike. Tis the season of heart, when the world steps into a place of family, togetherness, and hope. It’s an end of a year that begins an active path of giving and receiving, rooted in a coming together of values and the essence of home. The holiday season fills the atmosphere with magic. The air is crisp and clean, the sun glistens off streets by day and lights aglow in homes by night. There is a sense of warmth, deep nourishment, and care as we nestle into hearty foods like soups, stews, and hot chocolate or bundle up with sweaters, scarves, blankets and loved ones surrounded by light, hope, and the stillness of love in the air and within our hearts.
The heart is full of life and love. It represents engagement in partnership and never leads alone... It never beats alone... One pulse follows the other and always in the direction of union which requires partnership. We learn to connect and re-connect through heart-experience, and this is magnified between a pair of arms that allow us to reach out and touch what we love all the while, cradled and comforted between two breasts that safely hold everything that we feel. We are given the opportunity to feel the magic of life, connection, and harmony both individually and collectively. The season of heart reminds us to create a spark of life and that we cannot go about doing that alone. It is about togetherness. It is about sharing. It is about giving and receiving. It is all about the ways of the heart. We simply relate and create in a blended continuum of wholeness. The heart does not beat alone... It does not lead alone... One pulse follows the other in complete unification. This is a time of un-veiling, re-vealing, and an un-folding of the self into the inner sweetness of comfort and warmth. It’s a reminder of the mother-child experience, the inner connection and bond of unconditional love. Our very own place to rest and rejuvenation through celebration and creation, completely disarmed and fully embraced in the natural state of being. Let the heart lead you toward a clear passage and cleansing, a shedding of the old self. Let the heart guide you in nurturing your life and all that you live for. Let the heart take you in and give you the space to surrender on a clean slate, to be reborn in conception as you grow into the new, calm and cradled in the Divine feminine, inside the season of heart. Love, Jennifer #HeartSeason #SpiritofCalm&Comfort #MotherEnergy #CradledInHeartEnergy #TistheSeasonforMagic #HeldinLight CONSCIOUS BALANCE
It’s time to get out of the “cookie cutter” version of what healing should look like and shift back into our own personal experience and guidance. Sometimes, the path to healing can feel off balancing and can cause concern. We forget that being off balance is also for good purpose in defining it. The act of balance looks to the center of opposing forces to reveal a place of wholeness. This is the path to healing. The gift in that is in being open and available to both sides to integrate them as a point of conscious balance.
Let’s look at pain for example. Pain is real. It’s relentless. It reveals itself through the body. It wants to be seen. It beckons to be heard. It tugs at you every minute of every day. Pain is restrictive, trapped in the body with no space and we suffer. Pain is suffering, the physical manifestation of being held in, held back, shut down and buried within your own emotions. Your physical becomes the storehouse for emotional energy that has been ignored, unacknowledged and suppressed. Pain is a barometer, an internal broadcast system for the feelings buried inside, screaming to be heard. To be acknowledged. To be cleared. To be loved. Every healing journey will not look the same. It’s a personal pursuit- Have you ever sat with the inner voice of your own pain? I have and it had a lot to say. Pain is a lot more than just the name we gave. It’s the culmination of stuck emotions, blocked feelings, experiences, memories, unconscious belief systems and because of this, pain can be the source of evolution. Acknowledging what exists inside you, begins the path that serves as a healing direction. All of it is important information. Sometimes, the tendency is to give up because we don’t like what we see and it can be hard to move through. This is when healing becomes dedication and time invested becomes discovery. I’ve thought about pain. I’ve been in pain. I’ve worked through and with pain. It occurred to me, like a whole being awareness that the other side of pain, is pleasure. What a revelation! It never occurred to me that pleasure could be a root deficiency to the experience of pain. I was totally invested inside the pain that I missed out on any form of pleasure. I thank God for that moment in wholeness. Pleasure was now part of understanding personal balance and became a priority. When we embrace the other side, pain can rest. We cease falling back into rigid, perfectionism disguised as discipline and the “trigger” has a place to go, a space to flourish. My personal healing did not look ideal or what I had anticipated. I found rest. There was no more pushing or forcing life forward. The grip was loosening and I took in some fun, sweeter foods, conscious movement based on my needs rather than any “should’s.” My healing journey through pain helped me find a better balance within myself, a conscious balance. When you make your healing journey personal, it moves you, changes you, transforms you. Shift away from the “call to action” approach to healing and move deeper into intimate understanding. Let that be the life-giving medicine you need. Love, Jennifer🌸 Gentle Touch Healing Healing through Compassion - Inner Beauty Blog, Conscious Balance, Tiny Poet, 4.19.2024 AUTHOR OF INNER BEAUTY BLOGSJennifer is a truth seeker and artistic expressionist. She is certified energy therapist, emotional wellness coach, yoga/meditation instructor and intuitive. She is known her poetry and the deep care she feels for others. Categories |
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