HAPPY EARTH DAY!

The Earth is blessed when humanity awakens to its Divinity. When we anchor peace within, the Earth is blessed with peace, when we learn to love and respect ourselves, we naturally love and respect the Earth. For, the Earth is an extension of our very own selves. Every being is of a different physical form but the One Consciousness resides within the All.
May humanity awaken to its Divinity!
May this Planet be blessed!

~ An Excerpt from my new book, "Everyday Empowerment"

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"Everyday Empowerment" has one empowering thought for each day ~

Day 104

I have noticed that when we choose to drop the burdens of mind stories, a grand space is created where we can bring in our visions and create solutions. We are the creators of heaven or hell in our life. Creating heaven or hell depends on what thoughts we choose to encourage and feed our minds with.

This reminds me of the parable of the long spoons, which I will share with you now:

A man asked an angelic being in his dream to be shown what heaven and hell are like.

The being showed him two doors.

When he opened the first door, in the middle of the room there was a large round table with a large pot of delicious smelling stew, but the people sitting around that table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be very hungry. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.

The man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering.

The being told him that this was hell.

The being then opened the second door. The room appeared exactly the same as the first, with the large round table and the large pot of delicious stew. The people around the table had the same long-handled spoons, but they were all well-nourished, even plump, and they were laughing and talking. The people here were taking spoons full of stew and feeding each other. Since the ladle was too long for them to feed themselves, they found joy in sharing and feeding each other.

The being told him that this was Heaven.

WHY LOVE THE SELF?

WHY LOVE THE SELF?
Some dear friends have shared with me their difficulty with loving the self.

Loving the self is so important, all relationships on the outside depend on it. Every relationship with people, money, job, food, health, with the planet, with God/Creator , every relationship gets healed and healthy when the relationship with the self is healed and healthy.

Sharing a question and answer session:
QUESTION: I want to be in a loving relationship, but I block myself every time someone tries to have a relationship with me, I push them away and then I feel sad, am I a bad person?
ANSWER:
The first thing you need to do is forgive yourself and love yourself. If you continue to criticize yourself and continue to say that you are bad then you can never love yourself. If you are not able to love or appreciate who you are then you cannot love or appreciate anyone else. When you can't love yourself you also cannot receive the love given to you by others, because deep within you feel that you are not worthy of being loved. So loving and forgiving the self is the answer.

QUESTION: Okay, how do I forgive myself?
ANSWER: you have to stop complaining about you, you have to stop saying that you are bad or you did something wrong. See yourself as your own mother and look at yourself as your own child. How does a mother love the child, will she say the child is bad because she did something wrong?
Mother yourself, be your own mother, hug yourself , there is a little child inside you, you are being very hard on her, you are not treating her right, you are always complaining about her.
Sit quietly for sometime, see this little girl within you, lift her up to your lap, hug her and tell her that everything is okay, and that you love her very much. Hug her with complete feeling of love from your heart. She is worthy of your love.
Sit in this imagination for sometime.
As long as you can.
Do this exercise everyday sincerely, wherever you are, whenever you get a quiet moment where you are not disturbed by people, pets or the phone.
The more sincerely you do it the more you will see beautiful changes within you and around you.

You yourself are the most important person in your life who needs to be loved by you, you deserve your love more than anyone else. The moment you bring a beautiful relationship with yourself, all other relationships on the outside will automatically be set right.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar