This is a love letter to you. Not the romantic variety, perhaps, but the all-encompassing holistic love letter that sees you from all aspects, what would be deemed as beautiful and what society would see as possibly horrific. Perhaps we know each other in real life and are steadfast friends. Maybe we are connected less tangibly. The details of you and me are not entirely relevant.
What is important is that you pause and take a deep breath (maybe to the count of four). Still your thoughts and focus on the rhythms of your body. Now close your eyes and breath again, taking maybe five of six deep and slow breaths.
The truth is this; YOU are deeply loved! YOU, at the core of your matter, are worth the space and energy that you take up on this earth. YOU have an important place in this world and are not a mistake. Your higher power (however that identifies and feels safe to you) sees all the parts of you, knows all, and loves YOU all in your entity. Whatever stories you hear in your head or from your past, saying that you are “too this” or “not enough that,” are only myths that have no bearing on the FACT that you are loved.
When you feel that pushback of doubt, pause for a moment and think, know even for a second that this is true. YOU ARE LOVED! How does that feel? Does it feel comforting, maybe a little bit like too much?
Close your eyes, and take six to ten deep, slow breaths. When you inhale, imagine that you are allowing this love to spread over or through you, owning every part of your being. As you exhale, imagine the stillness and peace knowing that YOU, your physical body, your thoughts and actions, your imperfect past, are enough. Now soften your gaze or close your eyes and breath, consciously thinking, inhale LOVE, exhale PEACE.
Inhale LOVE. Exhale PEACE.
Inhale LOVE. Exhale PEACE.
Inhale LOVE. Exhale PEACE.
Inhale LOVE. Exhale PEACE.
Inhale LOVE. Exhale PEACE.
The light in me, connected unseen to you, to this higher power, and to all things, SEES and LOVES the light in YOU.
Peace be with you friend.
*Photo taken from Ms. Condon’s art room
