285 ~ Singing Love Songs to Yourself: The Self-Love Practice That Changed Everything

Hello Magical Human & welcome back to Madison Mindset the Podcast 🧚🏼

episode overview:
• music creates powerful affirmations in your life, so choose wisely
• the 'Singing Myself Love Songs' playlist transforms traditional love songs into self-love tools
• looking in the mirror while singing love songs to yourself creates powerful, though initially vulnerable, self-connection

Go check out my 'Singing Myself Love Songs' playlist and the 'Goddess Activation' playlist on Spotify under Madison Mindset for music that supports your self-love & mindset journey.

Links:

Singing Myself Love Songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1j1lAVApKMR5FhKN8dsUY1?si=Ui8SeVs6SfiC9yh9OGcuTw&pi=I5Fr3AqISV6Q0

Goddess Activations Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2nQV7ZBiEQzKvbWHxO0TD7?si=l77dDJAdThquhpLuPgSNRA&pi=jbrZygKRRueem

You are worth singing for

Love,

Madison Mindset xx

Transcript

Introduction to Madison Mindset

Speaker 1 0:00

Hello Magical Human , welcome back to Madison Mindset the podcast . Today I want to talk to you about a self-love practice that changed everything for me . Hello Magical Human , and welcome to Madison Mindset Podcast . My name is Madison . I'm a yoga teacher , a mindset and spirituality coach and a complete earth fairy . I see a world that is peaceful and easy to live in , humans that are awakened and enlightened towards who they are and what life truly is and why we are here . I understand life can be really hard . I've had a huge journey with anxiety myself . I understand what it's like to feel overwhelmed , overworked , stressed and frustrated within this earth . It is this journey that led me to begin my own growth journey and is only through those struggles that I was able to birth this podcast , so that you can have the tools and techniques and knowledge to help you step forward and be a being of light , a magical earthly being who is grounded , supported being who's grounded , supported , who takes on challenges with love and embraces the lessons that each day brings you . Are that being . I am here to walk you there .

Speaker 1 1:58

You will find many different kinds of episodes through this podcast . All are created in the moment and with love for you . Find the one you need for this moment and enjoy . Take a moment for yourself . Sit down with your journal and tune in . Welcome . Let's begin

The Foundation of Self-Love

Speaker 1 3:07

Now . This is something that I have never heard before . I've heard similar kind of things , but I'm not sure . I'm not sure where I got this from , but I just started doing it and it felt really , really good .

Speaker 1 3:19

So , as you know , I am a huge advocate for self-love , and the lack of love we feel for ourselves has been proven to really influence our day-to-day existence . It will really impact your life and if you've ever connected with any of Louise Hay's work , she was a real pioneer in self-love and mindset industry . She's written amazing books . One I love the most is you Can Heal your Life . I will put that in the show notes below , but in this book she talks about pretty much every problem we have can be traced back to a lack of self-love , a lack of feeling enough . You know you don't feel like you're enough , you don't feel confident enough , you don't love yourself enough , so you have all these problems that come from that . So , basically , you can go straight to this and work on that and a much of the other things in your life that keeps going wrong , such as the relationship that isn't good for you , the you know inability to ask for money , the inability to save money , having a good financial position , or family structure that you like , or creativity , or whatever it is really . It can all be narrowed down to self-love . So if you work on that , things improve , and I can definitely say that that is true . You know , when I started working on self-love , I started to notice things change very quickly .

Speaker 1 4:46

And you know , the reality is that when you learn how to accept who you are and love who you are , for exactly who you are and not who you wish you were , it's amazing how much easier life is because , right , you're going around trying to get everything right , trying to have the perfect body , trying to have the perfect life , the perfect everything , trying to be enough for yourself or for others , probably a mix of both . When you accept that this is my body , this is my life , this is the situation right now , this is where I'm at and it's enough . The relief that comes from , that is amazing . And then where you can go from there that comes from , that is amazing . And then where you can go from there , it's completely

The Singing Love Songs Practice

Speaker 1 5:33

up to you . You really get to create the life you want to create and it just comes from , first , your acceptance of yourself and the love you can have for yourself . So the practice I want to talk to you about is really simple . Right , I have spoken about music being a very powerful thing in affirmation land . Okay , when you sing music , everything you say , everything you sing , everything that's kind of just in your space , it becomes an affirmation . Every thought you think , everything you say is an affirmation , especially when it starts with I am or something about your life , there's something about yourself , something about your life .

Speaker 1 6:17

A lot of the music we listen to is very negative . There's a lot of , you know , breakup songs . You know I'm depressed songs . No one gets me , and you sing those because you're in the mood for that or whatever it is and it actually starts to weigh you down . Okay , it really changes your mood . And if you want to test this , you know , go and find a depressing song , listen to that , see how you feel . Then go find an uplifting life is great song . It's amazing the difference , you know .

Speaker 1 6:44

And one of my favorite playlists I created quite a while ago . It's called Goddess Activation . It is quite woman focused . It has a lot of , you know , empowerment for women and all those kinds of things . But there's some beautiful songs on there and they are , all I feel , good , life is great , I am enough , you know , and these are great songs . You know , and I'm also , you know , creating playlists that are more for yoga , so very welcome for everybody , but very focused on inner peace , love , kindness towards the self . And the new playlist I've created , which is actually to go with this episode , it is the singing myself love songs playlist .

Speaker 1 7:27

Now , this is when you take a love song that is meant to be a love song for someone else and not a breakup love song . I love you , love song , right , everything's going great , life is good love song , and instead of thinking of someone else and singing it to them , you sing it to yourself . Now , I started doing this in the car . You know there were .

Speaker 1 7:48

I noticed that there were a lot of songs that I loved . I love the rhythm , I love the melody , or I've known the songs , I love singing them , but they didn't exactly align with my beliefs of , you know , singing songs that you want to kind of create in your life and affirm . So these songs are beautiful love songs , they're great to sing to a partner or whatever it is , but singing them to yourself is very emotional . You know , there's one in particular called it's so Easy Loving you or so Easy Loving you something like that by Ronan Keating , and when you sing that to yourself , wow , it hits different . It is amazing . It feels quite vulnerable in the beginning , especially if you haven't done a lot of self-love work .

Speaker 1 8:32

This will feel pretty confronting , but I highly recommend it to give it a grow and give it a grow . Give it a go and grow with it , right , so you can do this start in the car , do it in the car and sing . Obviously , the ideal way to do it would be to pick a song or two and sing it in front of the mirror . You know , do it so you're looking at yourself and singing to yourself with this unconditional love , this acceptance of who you are and this adoration of who you are . Okay , so there's many songs on there that are really beautiful to choose from . Go and get those and see how you feel , but you could , of course , find your own . Just make sure they're not breakup songs or something really depressing . Okay , it should be . Love is beautiful . It's easy loving you , right , it's a beautiful thing . So powerful . Powerful music has an amazing way of influencing how we feel on quite a deep level , and it's really important to recognize how deeply music can affect us and to choose the music we consume accordingly .

How Music Affects Your Energy

Speaker 1 9:47

Okay , if you're having struggle with your mental health or feeling joy in life or feeling peace , avoid certain genres . Okay , things that are very aggressive , very loud and kind of promote a lower frequency of vibration wouldn't recommend those . Okay , even if you enjoy it . You know , find time and space for that , that's fine , but the majority of the time you should be listening if you're listening to anything at all listening to things that are . You know , people listen to depressing love songs all the time . I used to do it , you know , especially when I was a teenager . I used to have breakups with boyfriends and you know things go on or best friends leave , whatever it was , and then I'd get the most depressing playlist ever , play it , sing along to it and cry my eyes out to the whole thing , acting like a victim the whole time . This is not high-quality feeling of a moment .

Speaker 1 10:48

Okay , if you are feeling sad , heartbroken , whatever it is , it's good to feel that , it is good to feel that , but don't indulge in that feeling , you know , don't add on to it , don't give yourself reasons to go deeper into the pain and just find a place that's so dark you can't get back out again . Okay , it's allowed , you're allowed to feel things out again . Okay , it's allowed . You're allowed to feel things . But life is not over . Life is good , life is fine , life moves on as it does . So allow yourself to go through the fluctuations of life without falling into the pits so heavily . You don't need to , okay , you can . Just you can dip down a little bit , feel it and then lift yourself back up , okay .

Speaker 1 11:28

So that's why I created the Goddess Activation playlist , and you know I have a lot of playlists . You can go and check it out . It's Madison Mindset on Spotify , a lot of great playlists that just honor peace , calm reflection . I've been really getting into like acoustic folk music lately and there are some beautiful songs that are just relaxing , that are just nice . They're not about anything in particular , but there's also a lot of songs that are about self-love or love of life or whatever . So I highly recommend doing some reflection and , especially if you are someone who listens to music all day , be mindful that what you listen to has deep impact on you on an emotional and energetic level , and then your physical body has to carry that . So it's really important to recognize the importance of this .

Implementing Self-Love in Daily Life

Speaker 1 12:21

So this practice singing love songs to yourself it's quite a vulnerable one , but it will give you a deeper connection with yourself . It will give you this sense of honoring and loving yourself . You know , often when you hear these love songs you just wish someone would sing them to you , or you know that your partner would sing it to you , or that you'd find someone who would bother to sing them to you or think about you when they listen to that song . And I think that's where we really go wrong with relationships . You know we're waiting for someone to love us in the way we want to be loved , and yet we refuse to do that for ourselves . So if you want someone else to sing that to you but you don't want to sing that to you , do you see the disconnection there ? Do you see how that's not aligned ? It doesn't make any sense . You have to be open to loving yourself in the way you want to be loved , so that someone else can love you in that way , so that your family can love you , so that your friends can love you , so that life can love you and show you that you are loved . But if you're in this mindset of nobody loves me , I'm not lovable , I cannot , I'm not enough , then that's all you're going to see reflected outwards . Okay , your reality is a reflection of what's happening on the inside . So this is a really simple practice and it's one that you can do in the car , on the way to work or wherever . It's actually one that you can bring on the road with you . And it's powerful , you know , really powerful .

Speaker 1 13:49

And yeah , my favorite songs at the top of this playlist , but there's a heap of beautiful songs through there that are all just your normal love songs . They're not anything other than just normal love songs . They're not meant to be affirmations , they weren't created for that , but because the artist in them sings them quite deeply . You know about feeling this love for someone . You get that emotion poured right back into yourself , that appreciation , that admiration , that love you know . So it's a really powerful way to love yourself . You know you could pair this with taking yourself to dinner . That's a really fun experience . If you're not done that , take yourself out for a dinner date . It feels beautiful . It feels really beautiful , a little bit intimidating , a little bit scary , but go for it , do it . It feels good .

Speaker 1 14:41

You've got to work on love , and learning to continuously fall back in love with yourself is one of the most powerful things you can do , not only for your own wellbeing , but also for everyone in your life your future partner , your current partner , your family , all of life . Everything is going to reflect back to you , and if you are just a big love frequency , if you were just this bright , shining light , full of love , you're going to be a magnet for all of that love . You're going to see it everywhere . So use this practice . It's really interesting . Give it a try . Go and find some love songs . Use my playlist . The link will be below . Go and find

Taking Self-Love Beyond Music

Speaker 1 15:25

them and give it a go . Teach your children how to do it , you know . Really start to honor yourself in the way you want to be honored and loved . Thank you so much for being here . Magical Human , I appreciate you . I hope you have an amazing week . Let's work on self-love , enjoy . I'm sorry you .