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Love is the Theme
February 5, 2007
February is the month of the heart. Love is the theme. As I shared with you at the beginning of January, this year my only resolution is to love myself unconditionally. In my life experience, it seems whenever I make a declaration whatever is in my life that is unlike that declaration comes up. I’ve learned to trust that happening and undoubtedly create it by having the belief. . Since the beginning of January I’ve been facing many of my imperfections. With the perspective of loving myself unconditionally, I’ve been working on loving what is showing up in my face each day. That’s not always easy and I notice that if I get uncomfortable, I work even more as a way to manage my discomfort. You can imagine how that plays out. I have a busy life teaching full time in a community college. I am a coach. I mentor other students becoming coaches. I am an early childhood educator and my passion is to make the world a better place for children by working with their teachers. I also love to learn, and am always reading and taking courses. As the imperfections came up, in addition to spending time loving them, I also created so much work that I was completely out of sorts for a while. I got angry and told myself “I am a human ‘doing’, instead of a human ‘being’.” I spent some time writing in my journal about “who I would be if I wasn’t doing”. That was a tough assignment. I could write nothing more than, “I am a ball of light and love”, which is what I believe we all are at our essence. When I was willing to sit with the discomfort of these experiences, and not mask that discomfort, the answer came to me. I remembered what I know deep inside me. Yes, I am love and light and so is everyone else. It is through my doing that I fulfill my passion to make a difference in the world. By showing up as someone who is human and has struggles, but knows her true essence, I can help other people remember who they are. That makes the doing less of a struggle and more in alignment with my passion. How about you? Do you know how wonderful you are? Do you listen to and trust your deep inner wisdom? Where are you on a scale of 1-10 when it comes to loving yourself unconditionally? If 1 is “I don’t even like myself’ and 10 is ‘I love myself unconditionally’, where do you stand? This month I invite you to pump up your love for yourself. 1. Take some time to write a list of all the things you love about you. Ask your closest friends what the top five things love about you, if you need help getting started. Commit to going over the list every day this month and breathing in love for yourself. 2. Create a “love myself” night. Imagine inviting your lover or spouse and plan and make a meal that you would for him or her. 3. Prepare for the meal by lovingly caring for yourself. Perhaps that’s a long slow bath or a day at the spa. Buy yourself some flowers. 4. Set the table as you would for a special meal, light a candle and eat slowly. Savour each bite. 5. Love and acknowledge yourself for the perfect aspect of the divine you are. I would love to hear from you as you go through the month loving yourself. What comes up for you? Is it fun or a challenge or both? Email me at rheenan@mnsi.net. My amazing training with Debbie Ford and her programs, http://www.debbieford.com has given me the perfect lens to develop myself. Open curiosity of what I might uncover is the kindest viewpoint I have ever experienced. When I remember to use that lens and not the one of harsh judgment for what is wrong about me, I am quickly able to discern what needs to change to keep me in alignment with my vision for my life. Do something good for yourself in February and check out Debbie’s programs. We are committed to transforming the world through our work. Need more love in your life? Give yourself and those you love a Valentine’s gift this month of movies about love. Have you read the Conversations With God books? These books transformed my whole understanding of God and had a profound impact on me. Just a few years before he wrote his first book, Neale Donald Walsch was homeless with a broken neck, dumpster-diving for tin cans to have enough money to eat. He certainly had no intention of writing 22 books, or becoming the New York Times best-selling author of the “Conversations with God” series. Neale Donald Walsch was just a man down on his luck, out of answers, and in desperate need of help, who cried out to God. And then God answered. In what became a series of late night “conversations,” God revealed himself to Neale in an utterly earth shattering way. Walsch posed an endless stream of questions about life’s mysteries and uncertainties, and just like that, God illuminated the answers, one by one, to all of Walsch’s desperate cries. Walsch filled dozens and dozens of legal pads recording these conversations, and their messages became the basis for an internationally acclaimed book series that has sold over 7 million copies and has been translated into 34 languages, and now—a major feature film. Members of The Spiritual Cinema Circle are receiving CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD as part of the February 2007 DVD collection which also includes three outstanding short films. The Circle is America’s fastest growing DVD club specializing in uplifting and inspiring movies. Each month members pay $21 plus shipping and receive a DVD with 4 or more films that are theirs to keep. During the month of February new subscribers to The Circle will receive CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD compilation plus an additional special bonus DVD (you pay a nominal shipping fee), SOULMATES, which features 6 short films about the magic of relationships and the healing ability of an open heart. That’s a total of 10 great independent films. To receive CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD and all of these films click here http://secure.spiritualcinemacircle.com?af=12984 Have a blessed month of love. It will transform your life. Rosemary © Rosemary Heenan BA ECEC CICP About the Author: Rosemary Heenan is a Certified Integrative Coach Professional. Her specialty is coaching successful, professional, mid-life women who desire to be fulfilled and live balanced lives. Rosemary has been a college professor of early childhood education for 30 years. If you were forwarded this by a friend, get your own copy by signing up on the Newsletter page at http://www.rosemaryheenan.com Her ebook, Attract a Loving Relationship is available for purchase at http://www.rosemaryheenan.com Email rheenan@mnsi.net NOTE: You’re welcome to reprint this article online as long as it remains complete and unaltered (including the “about the author” info at the end)
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