{"id":104317,"date":"2020-02-10T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moonkissd.com\/?p=12208"},"modified":"2020-02-11T04:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T04:35:31","slug":"i-love-myself-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=104317","title":{"rendered":"&hellip;I love myself more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12238\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.moonkissd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/I-love-myself-more-e1581395068389.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">Lately, I have found myself thinking, \u201cI could do this or that\u2026but I love myself more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">The more I used it, as a way to carry through on an action that was new, uncomfortable, or both, the more I realized the phrase \u201c\u2026I love myself more\u201d was extremely helpful. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">Especially for the intensely uncomfortable phase of moving from old habits into new ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">The discomfort that accompanies releasing old habits of conditioning can be particularly vexing because you not only feel all that icky dis-resonance it&#8217;s time to clear up, the act of doing something new and different is (temporarily) uncomfortable, too. When athletes train they know there will be initial discomfort or pain involved when a new muscle is stretched in new ways. Reframing the discomfort we feel as <em>loving <\/em>can be just the reframe we need to energetically move into decisive change. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">And giving yourself permission to do the same old thing, if you want, is incredibly freeing, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">Ultra-sensitive duo, Venus and Chiron, are now joined in the sky, in Aries. It is loving to be <em>honest<\/em> with our self about all the ways we feel hurt, disappointed, ignored, overlooked, betrayed, as long as we sit with our feelings and become willing to feel them completely.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy for the Ego to think that in order to feel better, others must change. Actually, it&#8217;s the <em>honest acknowledgement and witnessing<\/em> <em>where\/how we feel bad <\/em>that gives us the ability to make new choices that will ultimately feel better for us. That&#8217;s the secret to empowered relationship (rarely is it: asking another person to change). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">We just need to honestly face and feel the Truth of our feelings, <em>not argue with them<\/em>, and decide to love our self more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">&#8230;Because there&#8217;s usually a &#8220;yeah, but&#8230;,&#8221; right? A reason for the Ego to argue with your Soul&#8217;s deeper Truth? That&#8217;s the old Ego conditioning butting up against the True Self&#8217;s response. We need to take those apart, too. Yet, what I&#8217;ve discovered is: I get to keep the objections and still decide &#8230;(yeah, but) <em>I love myself more.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">When we truly embody <em>&#8230;I love myself more&#8230;<\/em> as an energetic reality, in body and Soul, the obvious solution always appears &#8211; either as an action to take, or changed perception. We are not left hanging, waiting for the world, other people, to change for us. We get to more deeply respond to our own needs, desires. This shift is so empowering. And the rest, any leftover bad-feeling energies or lingering uncertainties, dissolve spontaneously, naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">Here&#8217;s how&#8230;I love myself more<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">It would be easy to push away how I felt excluded just now\u2026 <em>I love myself more<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">To ignore how I felt when you talked to me in that way\u2026<em>I love myself more<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">To say \u201cwell, this is all you know how to do\u201d as to why you do\u2026<em>I love myself more<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">It would be an old habit to gloss over the incongruence between your words and actions\u2026<em>I love myself more<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">To believe the words you tell me instead of trust what I know and feel&#8230;<em>I love myself more<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">Follow the habit to bend myself into a new shape, to accommodate, because I don\u2019t like how I feel around you\u2026<em>I love myself more<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">To stay in a connection that feels bad\u2026(but) <em>I love myself more \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">To tell myself this the only way you know how to be, careful not to expect \u2026<em>I love myself more<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">I do not need for you to change anything for me&#8230;<em>I love myself more<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\">To know me deeply, intimately, to be in my own presence, is a privilege and a decision&#8230;<em>This is me, loving myself more<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Shanti;\"><em>I love myself more <\/em>is the answer to everything. The Love that I AM always guides me to right action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Over the Rainbow';\">in love,<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Over the Rainbow'; font-size: 24pt;\">Jessica<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moonkissd.com\/2020\/02\/10\/i-love-myself-more\/\">&#8230;I love myself more<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moonkissd.com\/\">Jessica Shepherd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I have found myself thinking, &ldquo;I could do this or that&hellip;but I love myself more.&rdquo; The more I used it, as a way to carry through on an action that was new, uncomfortable, or both, the more I realized the phrase &ldquo;&hellip;I love myself more&rdquo; was extremely helpful. Especially for the intensely uncomfortable phase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moonkissd.com\/2020\/02\/10\/i-love-myself-more\/\">&hellip;I love myself more<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moonkissd.com\/\">Jessica Shepherd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=104317\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1374,6522],"class_list":["post-104317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chiron","tag-venus-the-love-goddess"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekXVE-r8x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104329,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104317\/revisions\/104329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}