To Love Myself

Our only job is to love ourselves.

Something spoken in one of our meditation spaces that really stuck with me.

Isn’t it funny how we can hear things over and over, and then all of a sudden one person says it in just a way that it lands as if you are hearing it for the first time?

Our only job is to love ourselves.

I can still hear it echoing in truth.

I’m always striving for simplicity, especially in my practices, and I would say that this is as simple as it gets.

Imagine a world where each one of us loves ourselves so deeply that there is no insecurity.

There would be no judgment, no competition. We would be a world of community.

Our only job is to love ourselves.

The more I sit with this, the clearer it becomes. It is very layered of course, because there are so many ways to love myself.

I can love myself through strengths and weaknesses. Through worries and fears, patience and grace.

I can love myself through love for another. Through touch and words, through laughter and grief.

I can love myself through a love of nature. Through flowers and leaves, and bird songs and wind.

Through the sounds of the cars as they pass down the street, and the hum of machines that keep me warm in the cold.

I can love myself through my feet and my hands, my voice and my silence.

I can love myself through writing, through singing, through dancing, through crying.

I can love myself when I stop and notice. When I pause to connect as I breathe in my life. As I plant my feet and stretch my hands, as I rest my eyes and be with my feelings.

I can love myself as I catch the thoughts that carry me away to a place of separation. I can invite myself back to my space. I can let go again and again and again.

Everything, every moment, is an opportunity to love myself.

I can love myself. In fact, I must, because it is the only true job I have.

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With Love and Gratitude,

Jordan

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