Have you ever noticed that it is easier to love others, God and Nature than it is to love yourself? Self Love has been a quest for me for over 20 years with intermittent success. I have noticed this...when I am loving myself, Armand feels really safe and happy. When I don't, Armand feels scared and sad.
This morning, during my meditation, I felt an overwhelming sense of self love. I decided to slip out of meditation to ponder what was going on. What came to me was this....in order for me to fully love myself, there must be space between Lover and Loved. When I observe a child, nature, Angelina and/or the beauty of anyone, I can easily recognize the divinity and lovability of that which I am observing. The challenge with loving ourselves is that we often don't create the space between the "I" that is loving and recognizing the beauty, and the "myself" which is being showered with the love.
Meditation always takes me into observer mode. The challenge is how to bring that state of consciousness into the Matrix and my human world. Most of my Spiritual Teachers have promoted the importance of becoming the "witness", "observer", etc. Michael Singer asks us to "lean back" physically and in our minds whenever we get absorbed into our human drama and create some space so we can more fully love and guide our human from a clearer place.
When we can practice loving ourselves the way we would a child; recognizing our beauty, innocence, perfection and unconditional deservedness, we will begin to experience the Consciousness of Love that God/Source/Universe has for us and that is the bliss and awareness that our hearts and psyches are ultimately longing for.
