Facing our own Love

Empowerment (enlightenment, awakening) will elude us forever until we can stand in the presence of our own Love --- own Entity, Inner Being, Expanded Self --- without running.  Until we allow ourselves to touch that Love, feel that Love, be that Love, our journey in physicality will never be complete.

Self-denigration is not only a deadly game, it says we do not believe our divinity, our beauty, our vitality, our creativity, our perfection, our joyousness, the very essences of the Gods we are.  Rather, self-judgment tells us we are "second-rate" and "less than."

Self-condemnation in any form is nothing but a cop-out, a comfortable place to be where we have no responsibility to our true Selves, only to our physical images.   We can meditate, chant, play with crystals and incense, do yoga exercises and proclaim our divinity forevermore, but for as long as we hold judgments against ourselves, empowerment and awakening will be nothing but words.

Why do we find it so hard to approve of ourselves?  Why do we continue to reproach, criticize, nitpick, punish, condemn, shame and belittle ourselves?  Because if we did not, we would be left with having to touch our own love.  And the tucking of that love would mean the melting of our images.  And we still think that the melting of our images would mean the loss of our security.

There is within each of us a power and awareness that, when found and felt, creates a knowing, a calm, a sureness, and a place of safety where we no longer have the need to hide behind our comfortable insecurities.  Our Job is to find that place, and expand it into true empowerment.

Self criticism is a killer because it locks us inside our bodies.  It closes our valve, washing us in the most caustic, destructive negative energies that can be produced.  Lack of self love is another expression for judgment, creating negative energy that closes in upon itself.

No wants or manifestations can come to you while you are --- in any way--- disapproving of yourself.  No abundance, no well-being, no perfect health, and very little joy.  To the degree that you hold yourself in low esteem will you know unhappiness and misery, for not only is self-judgment a valve closer, it is the most potential toxic energy that has ever been created ---anywhere.