: Self Love Ritual : How to hold space for your heart & honor yourself

we often forget that the most important relationship we have is the one we have with ourselves

Even though it may sound self-indulgent, prioritizing self-compassion and self-care has some serious benefits for our mental and physical health. Being kind to ourselves lowers anxiety and helps foster grit and resilience.

Practicing self-compassion during these uncertain times builds an inner sense of safety and strengthens the knowing that you actually do have control over how you choose to feel.

So let’s open up our hearts and perspective to honor ourselves and the love that is our true nature and frequency. What's more, investing time in taking care of yourself isn't just good for you but others around you as well.

A loving relationship with yourself can have a ripple effect on others. Research shows that compassion is contagious and that others can pick up on your emotional state through mirror neurons.

In addition, by being more attuned to your emotional needs, you'll able to strengthen your emotional intelligence and empathic skills and can read other people’s feelings better and tend to their needs.

These effects can have a huge impact on the quality of both your personal and professional relationships—helping you foster deep meaningful connections with friends and loved ones. They can even help create motivating and productive work environments.

The more you refuel and recharge yourself through self-love and self-care practices the better you will feel, and that’s what I’m all about! You deserve to feel really good about yourself and your life!

let’s begin our self love ritual

Know that you can practice this ritual in any way that you desire. This ritual is meant for honoring your unique sacred essence and expression.

Items you will need: a candle and/or some incense, a mirror and a pad of paper and a pen.

Let's first set the mood, find a quiet cozy place to sit and relax.

Light your candle or some incense, and as you do say the prayer, I am love, love and I are one.

Let's close our eyes and taking a few deep breaths, in through the nose and out through the mouth. Inhale deeply into your heart chakra. Exhale out of your mouth, releasing all that doesn’t serve you. As you inhale, visualize a bud of green light glowing in your chest, blossoming bigger and brighter with each inhale as you strengthen this chakra. With every breath the blossoming green light continues to grow and expand all around you. You are now the center of your giant blossoming green heart chakra. This love is your true nature. This love is always here and available for you. Allow the energy of unconditional love to wash over you with your breath... know that you have always been love and love has always been you, and abundantly love will continue to flow through you.

Grab your pad of paper and a pen so we can deepen our ritual. Writing your own self-love mantra is incredibly powerful because while there are many beautiful affirmations and mantras for self-love, you are unique and your journey with self-love is unique.Write your own mantra that tells you exactly what you need to hear. Something kind, nonjudgmental, and compassionate that you might say to your sister or your best friend to let them know that you love them and they’re not alone.

Grab your mirror, look at yourself with tender care and repeat your mantra out loud to yourself. Repeat your mantra, as many times as you feel you need to hear it right now. This can be a bit intimidating and may bring up some emotions if you've never spoken self-love affirmations to yourself in the mirror. Know this is an incredibly powerful and magical practice that can activate so much healing and empowerment.

After you finished reading your affirmations to yourself in the mirror, close your eyes and place both hands on your heart. Take some more deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth just allowing this quiet moment to honor yourself as the beautiful being that you are. You have completed your self love ritual.

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Now, I want you to place your self love affirmation either on your altar or post it on a mirror that you see throughout the day.

Pro magical trick: repeating your affirmation out loud whenever you see it. This is why it's important to place your affirmation somewhere that you will see it throughout the day.

Thank you for taking this time to honor yourself today. It's up to each and everyone of us to open up to the abundant energy of divine love, that we are, that is our true essence. None else can do this for us, no one can give us the love that we seek. It's up to us to remember the love that we are. Blessings to you divine being.