I Love... Myself!

I Love... Myself!


A few years ago, I read an amazing book by Kamal Ravikant called "Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It". I remembered this succinct advice today as I was delivered some news today that really saddened me. I sat on my bed and cried, thinking that it's one day to my birthday, and this so sucks! That's when my surviving cat Fjord (I lost one of my cat's in September) looked up at me with such unconditional love in his little green eyes and literally crawled in my lap and put both his little paws around my neck and allowed me to hug him. He just stayed there as proof that there is so much love still in the universe. I thought about Dickens Faire, which just yesterday my friend Jay had made such an awesome birthday present to me with, and how much love I felt from the whole experience of yesterday, and I thought love is all around me. It made me think of the lyrics by 90's Brit pop stars Wet Wet Wet and their hit single "Love Is All Around". Love is there, if you just look for it, and it comes in the most unexpected ways. And then I remembered to quote the late, great Whitney Houston that "learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all." Cue the dramatic musical crescendo, because this is the honest and beautiful truth." So today, I place my focus on a mantra I modified from Ravikant's self-love meditation. 'I love myself. I'm loved. And I am loving!' I recognize my value, my worth and my place in the Universe, and I send this love to everyone in the universe, to the persons places and things I  have hurt, to those that have hurt me, and to everyone who supports me and my journey enough to love me right back!