12 Days of Xmas: Self-love

December 16, 2013

My really good WP galpal Sindy, from http://bluebutterfliesandme.wordpress.com, launched a 12 Days of Christmas prompt to celebrate our blogging connections and share our positive images for the coming year. You can read the first posts in the series here:

Three Wise Men (http://bluebutterfliesandme.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/three-wise-men/)

12 Days of Christmas: Magic (http://holley4734.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/12-days-of-christmas-magic/)

I won’t lie to you, this past year, and especially the second half, was not an easy one for me. I am all too happy to move on to 2014 🙂 . But before the New Year comes, let me share with you some valuable lessons I learnt in the past six months. Why else would I be going through challenges in life than to learn from them…

When I feel that the amount of things and the number of people needing my attention are overwhelming, I really need to step back and keep myself centered. What happened instead is that I tried to be present for everything and everybody, giving more than I was comfortable with or was able to give. And… I lost myself. Literally! I became too immersed with other people’s energy fields, I dispersed my energy across different realms, scattered so much that I hardly had any energy left to pick myself up. I had to take a total break from any client work and work on getting myself back step by step. Work in progress 🙂 .

When I feel like somebody is being demanding of me, I need to be loving with my boundary, and find my place to say yes when it feels right, and to say no when it doesn’t, with love. As a healer, I tend to believe that I have a great capacity and much responsibility to help any person who crosses paths with me. Yet I have seen over and over again that if I cannot do something for somebody, there is always another perfect person to help them. Things always work out! I can be compassionate, loving and understanding without necessarily having to do shamanic work with everybody.

When I am asked to come back to humanity and be part of the collective, I can step back into being human by unifying my body and my spirit. I have been very spiritual for a long time and have enjoyed many spiritual pursuits. Whenever I do shamanic work more intensely, I sooner or later start to dwell into spiritual realms. So much so that I become disconnected from my immediate environment. Part of my shadow is that I do not want to belong, live or be on this planet. Yet I know deep down, in my heart of hearts, that I want to be here, that I need to be here, and that my presence is required in many different ways than just shamanic work. So I am learning to love my body, my emotions, my physical self in a conscious way.

I am offering you lovely fellow humans, as a Xmas gift, a Self-Love poem-ritual to feel and celebrate the beautiful bodies we all share that make us the perfect humans we are:

My perrrrrfect little humans

Love Yourself Always A Little Bit More

Touch your chest
Feel your heart beat
Brush over your nipples
They will harden
Timidly with pleasure
Knowing you love them
passionately.

Give yourself
a deep sigh of approval
For the beautiful body
That carries you freely
With love and vigor.

Caress gently your face
Sweep over your eyes
Giving them the nicest makeup
they could ever have.
Touch your nose
Draw your lips
with your fingers.
Run them through your hair
Let them smell it,
Let them feel the silky sensation.

Love your arms
With each other
Give yourself a big
Cuddly hug.
Let them caress your back,
Your neck and your shoulders.

Make gentle circles
Around your belly
Squeeze sensually
Your hips and your thighs,
Like the hottest lover
You can imagine.

Open your legs,
Swiftly with passion
Dig deep for lost treasures.
Moving down your thighs
Circle your knees
Rub your calfs,
Massage your feet
With the passion of
a foot fetishist.

Then slap yourself
On the but lovingly
And get lost
In the busy day.

AND IN THE NEW YEAR!!! Happy New Year 🙂 xox

You can follow the next posts in these series here:

December~17~Penny  
December~18~Karen
December~19~ Sue
December~20~Leigh
December~21~Barbara
December~22~Shree
December~23~Jen
December~24~Julianne Victoria