Falling In Love With Your Own Life

In this meditation I want you to consider a thought about falling in love.

And the thing that I want you to consider falling in love with is your own life.

So,

Just simply and quietly find your center.

Relaxing into the place within that you hold dear.

That is special and quiet and serene.

Just for you.

Take a nice easy breath and slow yourself down.

And as you bring yourself into that center,

I want you to consider falling in love with your life.

To begin to see your life as an unfolding reality.

Not as a learning path,

But one opportunity after another.

To come forward.

To express yourself.

To feel the sense of yourself.

Strongly,

Quietly opening to the power that lies within you.

Even if you've never felt powerful.

Even if you've never felt at peace.

Even if your life has had extreme difficulties.

I want you to consider that part of what's true,

Not ignoring the difficulties,

But part of what's true,

Is that you've survived those difficulties.

That you've made it past them and through them.

And that there must be an inner strength,

An inner capacity and resilience that you have within you,

Or you never would have been able to overcome those challenges.

I'd like you to consider that this means that you,

At least potentially,

Have far more power than you maybe give yourself credit for.

That you have grit and strength and capacity to continue in the face of adversity.

And that the strength within you is something that you can begin to become aware of,

To appreciate,

To acknowledge.

And that all around you,

Throughout your entire life,

Despite the challenges,

Despite the difficulties,

You've managed to make it through.

And all around you have been systems of support,

Of one kind or another,

Sometimes not so positive support.

Sometimes it may have seemed like there was no support at all.

But if we begin to take a look at our lives,

In a format where we can start to believe in falling in love with our own life,

That that perspective can allow us to see that at every turn,

Every step we took,

We did from what we thought was best.

The decisions that we made came from our best assessments of what was going to work out for ourselves,

For those that we care about.

And that in and of itself is a loving act.

To act in a way that you believe is best is an act of love.

This life that flows through you,

The sense of the essence of what life is about.

Many people call it different names,

Many religions talk about it in different ways.

But I'm just going to ask you to consider that life itself flows through you and that everything that you've done,

Everything that you're doing now,

And everything that you're going to do in the future comes from this life that flows through you.

As an expression of the very power of life itself moving through you,

Through your body,

Through your mind,

Through your heart.

And to begin to consider that you could fall in love with this life that flows through you.

To begin to look at life around you from the spirit of being in love with life,

Of reveling in life,

So incredibly grateful for this life that you have.

To appreciate the people in your life who bring you support and encouragement and love.

To begin to hold yourself as an equal person,

Equal to anyone else on the planet.

Simply holding yourself as another human being,

Just being who you are.

To fall in love with who you are as a person,

To love yourself so strongly,

So fundamentally.

To care about yourself.

And from that vast reservoir of love for life,

To be able to express that love to other people without hesitation,

Without concern for whether it's going to be returned or not.

Without worrying about whether your spouse is going to give back to you the same way you gave to him or her.

To simply let go of all of that interactive tit-for-tat equalizing,

And to simply love fully,

Completely,

Expressing love.

I would like you to consider that the more you fall in love with your own life,

The more you'll be able to love other people.

And the more you'll be able to hold yourself in compassion and caring,

In esteem and acceptance.

So falling in love with your own life can be a radical step to take.

There are many forces in all of our global cultures that would say that that's a crazy idea.

That would hold you down,

Tell you how powerless you are,

How little effect you can have,

How you should settle.

But I wonder,

And maybe you'll agree with me,

That if you can fall in love with your life more and more,

As the days and weeks go on after this meditation comes to an end,

That you could be able to see that you deserve all the joy and happiness that you can imagine.

That you can accept yourself for who you are without judgment.

That you are enough simply as you are.

And that it's okay to love yourself so fully that your love overflows out to all the people that you care about.

Hold this idea in your heart today to fall in love with your own life.

And as you move through your day,

Watch,

Listen,

Feel.

And watch and listen and feel for the difference that having this perspective that you really and truly love your own life.

How this perspective starts to change things for you.

How this perspective opens up space,

Challenges you to love bigger and bigger,

And inspires you toward a level of radical self-acceptance.

That you are enough just as you are.

When you're ready to come out of the meditation,

Bring this idea with you.

And practice today holding yourself in this very high centered level of self-acceptance.

Thank you for joining me.

Thank you.