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So hello, everybody. And thank you so much for joining me today on the gentle yoga warrior is conscious conversations podcast help you grow and discover who you are. My mission is to heal the world one episode at a time. And I would like to really thank all of you for being part of something that was absolutely fantastic. My podcast has grown by 87% in the last year, and that's down to you, dear listener, whether you've listened to all the episodes, some of the episodes or you're just starting out on your listening journey and connecting with the gentle yoga warrior, I am deeply honoured that you took the time to do that without you, I don't have a shot. If you like my show in the podcast world, right, we are kind of like our success is recorded by how many downloads, not listens, which, to me seems a little bit crazy, but it's just the way it is. So if you like sure, or you listen to Sure, could you please download it because that's what they kind of like, the gauge is on our successes, how many downloads as opposed to lessons, thank you. And if there's any subjects that you would like me to cover, please let me know about that. And I will cover those subjects as well. So we are kind of about a week and a bit away from Valentine's Day as I record this. And this may not even be Valentine's Day or when you're listening to this. But I was going to do a show today about self love. And tapping into those kinds of things that we can need within ourselves, because we kind of look so often externally for love. And for that kind of feeling of kind of, we need kind of love, and it is part of life. And it's also the greatest force on earth. So as much as there's all this energy that's trying to bring us down like negativity, collective fear, etc. We can lift and vibe, lift our vibration, and hence help others learn how to lift their vibration as well. And the deepest gift that you can give to yourself into the world is self love. But there is many obstacles sometimes, but a stone that they can be learned behaviours from my childhood. If you listen back to my episode with Troy Headies, he says a very wise man is that people don't often talk about the privilege of being loved. And I really kind of resonate with that, because I feel, you know, we're kind of like a project of how we felt love. But the thing is, right, we can change that. So even if we felt like we weren't loved, or maybe we're just we don't see the love that we're receiving. And we're kind of seeing that cup is half empty, which will quite often be the case. And in fact, you see the cup is half full, and feeling gratitude for the love that you have, and the love that start with them for when we can cultivate that sense of love within ourselves. And then we can kind of express ourselves and feel comfortable, I love that word to say comfortable in expressing and feeling love, in return. And as as I record this, it is coming up to Valentine's Day. But as I said, it may not necessarily be Valentine's Day when you're listening to this. But the reason I'm talking about Valentine's Day is just one day of the year, but over 365 days of the year, right. There may be times or there may be periods in your life where you may be on your own, it might be out of choice it might have because unfortunately, you've lost a loved one, you might have separated with someone you may be in a relationship with, they've had to go away for work, there could be all numbers of reasons, you may be very happily single and loving it, but equally wants to kind of develop that self love. And it's finding that innate energy within and I can be guilty of this as well. Sometimes, and I kind of have been having the awareness is that we look so much externally for kind of finding ways to kind of feel loved and find the ways to find that connection, etc, we look so much externally for that, that we kind of forget that to go in and, and the way and it's so simple, and yet we find so many barriers to it. And that is free meditation. That's true sitting still and connecting to ourselves. Because we try to numb sometimes there's like a layer of like stuff that's kind of stopping us from connecting with that in ourselves. And we kind of know that out for all kinds of ways that an ego which we need to live on this planet. But our ego has ways of kind of like sticking it in. So it could be like through just naming a few through kind of procrastination is a is a one like oh, I'll just do that tomorrow. I'll just do that tomorrow. It could be through like a diet which I kind of touch on quite a lot in podcasts. And it can could be through alcohol addictions, many many kinds of addictions, but there's always ways that we find not to sit still and kind of meditate and be, and I meditate every morning. But I feel that I could be doing more not because I it's like a competition of how much someone can meditate. But finding more times to meditate is really good. And if you listen to my previous podcast of ash Burnside, she suggests finding 10 minutes three times a day to sit with yourself. And Rich Lewis, who were interviewed in previous podcasts as well actually does free sessions of 20 minutes to kind of sit and connect and centred prayer. So there's many ways that we can kind of sit and be but you said, but yeah, the gentle yoga. But why do we need to do this, the reason being is by sitting still, St. For all that gunk that stops you from connecting with this kind of infinite pot of love, which is within us, we learn to then cultivate that self love and that deeper connection with ourselves. And then hence sending that love out into the universe. And then sense kind of finding ways to kind of really elevate and bring ourselves into a higher vibration. So I'm inviting you to sit for five minutes, if a once a day, twice a day, or three times a day. And if you can't do five minutes, start off with two minutes, put a time or sit with yourself, and just take some slow, calm, deep breaths, and do that every single day. And do that for at least 40 days. And let me know how you get on with that. So a golden gem that I would like to leave leave you with before we get into this week's meditation is. If you are 90, and you are looking back at your life, as it is today, what would you have done differently to cultivate a deeper sense of self love? I'll repeat that. If you weren't your 90 year old self, looking back at whatever age you're at now. And even if you're 90, put extra years on, looking back at whatever age you are now, what would you have done differently in your life to express a deeper sense of self love to cultivate a deeper sense of self love? That didn't expect you to have the answers straightaway, maybe you want to journal it I know. But it was his own journal journal. But it really does help. Maybe you just kind of want to sleep on it and kind of feel maybe it comes to you straight away. But start making a lot of knots and little plans of how you can cultivate self love. And your habits now are they supporting those that road to self love. just food for thought. And I'd be really intrigued to see how and how we get on with that. So to today's meditation, as promised, here is your meditation, inspired by today's show, top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross legged on the floor of a nice straight back, always no sit on a block or a cushion. Or that's not available for you, you sit in a chair with a back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching and if you're doing something that requires you concentration are you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you. If you're doing the meditation, that's begging, self love meditation to help you cultivate more self love and less self hate. So for this meditation, I want you to do this meditation facing a mirror. So you can do it if motivo bathroom or whatever it is, but you want to kind of have one that stands you're not having to hold it up. Or if you don't remember you can have your reflection maybe in the wind or just something that way you can see your reflection. And I want you to look deeply and lovingly into your eyes. And regardless of how you feel. So you're just going to look at yourself with a soft, gentle stare but not to kind of string in your eyes. You're going to take some slow calm deep breaths, and you're going to look into your eyes and regardless if the eagle is telling you about flows or anything like that, you are going to look into your eyes and you're gonna absolutely and extraordinarily exaggerated, beautiful me see the beautiful, divine person that you are for love is beyond what we think we should and shouldn't should look like. What we think we don't look like and what we should look like. Should is a word that should be kind of put into the garbage into the bed. In,
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look into your eyes and just say, I love myself completely and utterly, unconditionally. And even if it's not quite how you're at, I want you to just continue doing that just looking into that mirror. And saying to yourself, you can ever say it out loud, or in your mind, I love and completely accept myself unconditionally. I am love. So the next thing you're going to say is, I am love, I am beauty manifested into this world. I am love manifested into this world. I love myself unconditionally, from the inside and out, I am light
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then just have a stillness for a moment as you stare lovingly at yourself, as you take some lovely arm deep breaths in and out through the nostrils. And I invite you to do this meditation daily, perhaps set a timer. Again, you could do it a couple of minutes, you can do it longer, looking yourself in the mirror, but in a way that you love and accept yourself completely. I love myself unconditionally. I am love manifested, whatever feels that kind of resonates with you, I am loved.
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And if any barriers come up for you during that process, you can journal them or you can breathe into it and say, regardless of what my ego is saying, I am beautiful. I am love I love myself unconditionally. The thing is, right, when you want to make positive changes do and speak once isn't really going to cut the mustard as the saying goes, you need to do it regularly until he kind of really embodied it. Another thing, what you can do to help remind yourself is maybe next you can get yourself like a nice stone. And you can hold something like that soft in your hands as you stare in the mirror. Or it can trigger something to remind us to kind of do the meditation. So quite often I hold a stone when I'm meditating, because that kind of that, that's 10 sending a signal to my body to that I'm going to meditate. But that sounds too complicated. Don't bother with that. But that's just something that I do to help. But getting back to my point, try and do this daily until you rarely feel that kind of self love. And if you miss a day, go back to it. Don't skip a day. So sending you an abundance of love, joy and beauty and gentle yoga warrior if you would like a personalised recording meditation that's going to help you and it's been anything specifically that you would like me to help you with, contact me by the gentle yoga warrior.com and they can order a personalised recording meditation there. And as always, if you've enjoyed this meditation, please leave us a review and please download it because that's how they count our success. So thank you very much once again for our 87% growth from the last year and the gentle yoga warrior over and out and thank you for listening
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