I
wrote an article several years about about how it was the first time
that I truly saw the physical beauty of who I am. As you all know, I
have been on my path for a long time and I found the fountain of youth,
the key to happiness and the releasing of stress in your is falling in
love with yourself. It is what makes everything in life seem easier,
lighter and brighter. I've been on this journey of healing for years
and the first major experience of falling in love with me was just prior
to my 32nd birthday. (Mind you that I had worked a lot on loving me
unconditionally without judgment--you know that voice in our head that
negates all the positive things we say or do about ourself--I was able
to quiet it!). I couldn't wait to celebrate being me and being alive.
How truly magical and amazing it is for me (and can be and is for you)!
What I found was that the journey of loving oneself has a great deals
of trials and tribulations, but ecstasy and joy as well. I also find
that the more I love myself, the more I discover to love about myself.
Since, I fell in love with me, I realized there is so much more to love
and every year or so I find a new reason to fall in love with me. For
example, last year I found a love for painting and I was so proud of my
ability. You maybe asking why does that make me fall in love with me?
It shows me how much I have grown: I was intimidated by a blank canvas
and the idea that it had to be perfect so I never did it. And now, that
I don't have that judgment that things have to be perfect, I just paint
and I love what I create.
Onto a quote that I found several years ago and I love...
"The time will come, when, with elation, I
will greet myself arriving at my own door, in my own mirror. And each
will smile at the other's welcome, and say, "Sit. Here. Eat. Relax." I
will love again this stranger who is my Self. Give wine. Give bread.
Give back my heart, to itself, to this stranger who has loved me all of
my life. Whom I ignored for another, but who knows me by heart. Take
down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs and the
desperate notes. Peel my self-image from the mirror. Sit. Here. Now.
Feast on my life. Fall in love again with my self and with all of life." ~ Derek Walcott
My
question for you is have you fallen in love with yourself lately? I
can answer you honestly that I have...the love of yourself is a lifelong
romance that only gets better and better. I can't wait to discover
something new for me.....what new thing will you discover about yourself
if you took the time to look? And if you are just beginning the
journey and are ready to begin that romance, what do you think it will
take for you to fall in love with you?
My wish for you today is to begin the romance of falling in love with you, and see the magic you can and will discover that is YOU!!!
Love to you,
EstaRa 
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