--Self-Love Writing Challenge-- Day Six: Compile a List of Self-Love Actions, and Do One of Them by, Shannon Elsom ♥ → Lay in a field and gaze into the sky. See what messages the shape-shifting clouds have for you. ♥ → Go to the grove to visit your old growth oak ally. Drink in some of his medicine and offer him some of your juju. Sit on his roots for a bit and let him carry the heaviness down into the core of the earth where it can be composted into renewable energy in Gaias Cauldron. ♥ → Listen ♥ → Breathe ♥ → Rest for as long as you like. ♥ → Go shoot the shit with good ol Red. ♥ → Laugh until you cry. ♥ → Belly rubs ♥ → Slip into sensuality ♥ → Go to the ocean. Give it over to Yemaya. ♥ → Be with the Gentle Giants. Visit the redwoods and cavort with the Fae.☽✪☾ ♥ → Connect with Oshun. ♥ → Spoil yourself at the dhyana Center self-care studio. ♥ → Kirtan ♥ → Dance like the whole worlds dancing with you. ♥ → Leave it on the mat. Let the asanas do their unwinding and opening. Move into expansion when feeling the pull of contraction. ♥ → Treat the home as an altar. Create sacred space. ♥ → Finish transforming your boudoir into a Red Tent. ♥ → Give up trying to adopt a normal schedule. Flow with your own rhythms. ♥ → Say no to anything that doesnt feel right for you without feeling the need to give any explanation. ♥ → Invest time and energy in what lights your fire, release what snuffs it out. ♥ → Do what you have put off doing to make space for more of what you are delighted to do. I chose these images of Oshun because they capture the essence of how I feel when I am centered in love. Oshun has empowered me by helping me connect with my love for myself. When our actions flow from that place our lives become ripe with potential. We gravitate toward the sweet tastes of life. We see the beauty around us. This is often a simple matter of choosing to focus our attention there but we cant see it out there until we arrive there within ourselves. Self-care is the vehicle that takes us there. I am reminded of this over and over again every time I show up for myself. I view these acts of love as cultivating the garden of the soul and it is through that attentive care one by one we come into bloom. Art: Ochun Sees Birth, Oil on Canvas © 2007 by Lili Bernard
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:58:11 +0000
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