Happy February Everyone!!!

Self Love....  If we could buy it we would! But, that would be too easy.  What seems to be easy, is loving others.  Perhaps this is learned behavior.  So, we love others, and care for others far better than we love and care for ourselves. As if we are not deserving of our own love, we seek the love and validation of others.  We even charge and hold others responsible for our happiness.  And, when there is no partner in our lives to share tender love we feel empty and alone.  We begin to think that something is 'wrong' with us, and we need to clear this or clear that. We fail to realize that 'alone' is simply 'All One' with the Self.  The same love and compassion we so freely give to others we forget to give to ourselves.  Never giving ourselves permission to slow down and have an intimate relationship with our Self...  just constant busy movement forward wanting or needing to assist, nurture, care for and love others.  After all, people need us...  Well, we're people too!

    

"With all our best intentions and rich resources, why is it so hard to slow down, simplify, and care for ourselves?  Why do most clearing efforts fall short or peter out? Why are we so afraid to let go?

 

Our drive to attain and succeed comes at a great cost to the soul. We are malnourished, if not starved, when it comes to compassionate self-acceptance, awareness, and care. We yearn for simplicity but struggle to find it. We ache for balance but can't sustain it. There is no time to juggle it all, let alone clear the things and thoughts that have caused us to feel so overwhelmed in the first place."

 

After years of study, deep inquiry, and personal experience, this is what Stephanie Bennett Vogt knows for sure:

• For clearing to last you need to put yourself first. You won't make a dent in reducing the stress and stuff until you've healed the patterns that created it. If you don't feel safe, you won't let go. Clearing is an inside job that begins and ends with you.

• For clearing to last you need to slow down.  Clearing old habits and resisting behaviors is not possible until you slow it... way... down.  In a world that is all about speed, this requires awareness.  Daily doses of it.  "Slow drip" efforts applied consistently over time are the real game changer here.