Only God, my dear,

Could love you for yourself alone

And not your yellow hair.

William Butler Yeats  Ann Gregory

What is your "yellow hair"? All the things you love about yourself because they meet your personal ideal.

Can you imagine loving all of you - yourself alone?  Not just the special, yellow hair, parts of you? Can you love what fails to please you? Or what is just ordinary, hardly worth noticing because it is neither marvelous nor hateful?

This is where animals have the advantage over us self-conscious humans...there isn't a zebra in the world that adores or hates it's stripes or wishes they were spots or just a touch thinner, or a shade lighter!!

Self-love is no sin. In fact, it is a morally necessary deed for two core reasons.

What we fail to love about ourselves we project on to others and then try to change them or destroy them.

What we fail to love about ourselves, becomes the justification for our self-sabotage, our hiding, our self-diminishing, our failure to thrive.

Self-love is not a pick & choose. It is not a menu teasing your soul's palette - "Oh, what part of myself would taste good today?" It is the great inner gesture of your life and without self-love, you will not know how to love others or serve the world to the fullest.

Practice self-love!

A Valentine's Exercise in Self-Loving

Write a Valentine from your I Am to yourself  filled with appreciation, recognition, gratitude, wonder, awe, and tender knowledge at being yourself...this body, this life, this personality, this consciousness.

1.  to your physical body or a part of it...your earlobes, you two big toes, your hair color, your pelvis, your trapezius muscle, your age spots.
2. to something about your biology...your deep breaths, your blood pressure, your bladder, your vagus nerve, how you sweat, to your ability to smile or shed a tear.
3. to a memory... a detail or a whole episode of your life, a place, a person, a feeling and also just to the the joy and grief of remembering.
4. to your way of thinking...how you seek to learn, how you question, how you wish, how you notice the moon, how you finished the crossword puzzle, how you wondered about death.
5. to your feelings...your ability to feel a mood, to care, to be emotionally alive and expressive with desire, calmness, delight, courage, And find the compassion to send a love note to your fears, your disappointments and other difficult feelings.
6. to your will...your capacity to plan, initiate, execute, complete, and celebrate brushing your teeth, checking your email, writing a poem, vacuuming your living room, singing a song, weeding your garden, praying.

Take some time today to love yourself alone!

And if loving yourself feels good and you want to know how much more of you there is to love, I urge you to sign up for the Core Imaginations Curriculum.  Click here. NOTE: The discounted subscription is only available until March 1st.

From the beginning of experiencing your work, I have been and continue to be, astounded by your ability to organize this spiritual content with inner process. 

Andrea Martone - Core Imaginations participant, biodynamic farmer, bookkeeper, Pilates instructor, Durango, CO

Imagine yourself a year from now...

Are you still conforming and keeping your uniqueness  buried and forgotten in the bottom of the closet? Are you still unimagined and unexpressed? Are you still afraid of your significance? Confused about your purpose? 

Or are you marveling at yourself? Astonished at who you are? Finally, after all these years - you have a confident and creative relationship to yourself. 

The 10 month Core Imaginations Curriculum provides you with 37 lessons which show you hofw to marvel at yourself!  You will be astonished at what you see! 

You won't be perfect or in a state of bliss, but you will be forming a truly rich relationship to who you are - you will be creatively and confidently on your way to wholeness, freedom, and manifestation. And that is the best!

Here's a scenario...  Someone has a melancholic temperament, she is a deep thinker with a tendency to feel painfully isolated.  The Core Imaginations curriculum will not "cure" the melancholic pattern of her soul, but it will change her relationship to her melancholia.  She will marvel at it, not hate it or hate herself for being melancholic. 

Whatever your difficulties in being you, after participating in Core Imaginations, you will have a self-knowledge grounded in the truth of imagination, not floating on a wish or swimming in fantasy. This imagination allows you to experience the real meaning of your yourself and your difficulties. 

You will find space between your I and your suffering so you can see it from a creative distance.  

You will see yourself  in a new light and in relationship to a bigger picture.

'Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.'  Victor Frankl

The Core Imaginations Curriculum gives you the big picture. It lights up the full spectrum of being human.  It creates a viewing platform in your soul at the right distance so you have the space for seeing the meaning of who you are.

Discount prices go away on March 1st.  So sign up today!

A Complimentary Consultation?

Do you need help in determining whether to work with me individually or enroll in the Core Imaginations curriculum? Do you wonder what level of participation is best for you?  Do you have questions about Imagine Self?  Do you want to request a discount in the cost of a program? Please schedule a 20 minute phone conversation with me. Schedule your complimentary consultation by clicking here. .

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