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Prayer for Self Love

I would like to thank Brenda Summerville for posting this beautiful reminder today.  I want to share it.

FouragreementsdefinedPrayer for Self Love

By Don Miguel Ruiz

Today, Creator of the Universe, we ask that you help us to accept ourselves just the way we are, without judgement. Help us to accept our mind the way it is, with all our emotions, our hopes and dreams, our personality, our unique way of being. Help us to accept our body just the way it is, with all its beauty and perfection. Let the love we have for ourselves be so strong that we never again reject ourselves or sabotage our happiness, freedom, and love.

From now on, let every action, every reaction, every thought, every emotion, be based on love. Help us, Creator, to increase our self-love until the entire dream of our life is transformed, from fear and drama to love and joy. Let the power of our self-love be strong enough to break all the lies we were programmed to believe – all the lies that tell us we are not good enough, or strong enough, or intelligent enough, that we cannot make it. Let the power of our self-love be so strong that we no longer need to live our life according to other people’s opinions. Let us trust ourselves completely to make the choices we must make. With our self-love, we are no longer afraid to face responsibility in our life or face any problems and resolve them as they arise. Whatever we want to accomplish, let it be done with the power of our self-love.

Starting today, help us to love ourselves so much that we never set up any circumstances that go against us. We can live our life being ourselves and not pretending to be someone else just to be accepted by other people. We no longer need other people to accept us or tell us how good we are because we know what we are. With the power of our self-love, let us enjoy what we see every time we look in the mirror. Let there be a big smile on our face that enhances our inner and outer beauty. Help us feel such intense self-love that we always enjoy our own presence.

Let us love ourselves without judgement, because when we judge, we carry blame and guilt, we have the need for punishment, and we lose the perspective of your love. Strengthen our will to forgive ourselves in this moment. Clean our minds of emotional poison and self-judgments so we can live in complete peace and love.

Let our self-love be the power that changes the dream of our life. With this new power in our hearts, the power of self-love, let us transform every relationship we have with ourselves. Help us to be free of any conflict with others. Let us be happy to share our time with our loved ones and to forgive them for any injustice we feel in our mind. Help us to love ourselves so much that we forgive anyone who has ever hurt us in our life.

Give us the courage to love our family and friends unconditionally, and to change our relationships in the most positive and loving way. Help us to create new channels of communication in our relationships so there is no war of control, there is no winner or loser. Together let us work as a team for love, for joy, for harmony.

Let our relationships with our family and friends be based on respect and joy so we no longer have the need to tell them how to think or how to be. Let our romantic relationship be the most wonderful relationship; let us feel joy every time we share ourselves with our partner. Help us to accept others just the way they are, without judgment, because when we reject them, we reject ourselves. When we reject ourselves, we reject You.

Today is a new beginning. Help us to start our life over beginning today with the power of self-love. Help us to enjoy our life, to enjoy our relationships, to explore life, to take risks, to be alive, and to no longer live in fear of love. let us open our heart to the love that is our birthright. Help us become Masters of Gratitude, Generosity, and Love so that we can enjoy all of your creations forever and ever. Amen.

For more of Don Miguel Ruiz check out some of his writings such as The Four Agreements (one of my favorites).

 

Be Blessed, Be Fabulous

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Hard Work Pays Off

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Ok so I am going to be very transparent and say that as much as I want to become Dr. Bradford, there was a time in the not so far away past that I started to give up on completing my degree.  I was tired of attempting to complete chapter after chapter only for more edits, more revisions, more corrections my changes and I was just over it.  I spent days and weeks doing the minimal amount of work possible to just make it through to the next week.  I wanted to just throw in the towel and say I am content where I am and that the education I had was enough.

I am happy to say that I pressed my way through that valley.  I can be easy to get stuck there, but I did not.  It is okay to visit the valley at times, sometimes the valley experiences are necessary to help us appreciate the mountaintop experiences.  My time in the valley did not defeat me, it helped me to refocus and to learn what was important and what needed to be done to get to the next level.

Let me say that the valley is not an easy place to be.  There are also people in the valley that want you to stay there and hang out with them and stay for awhile.  The reality of the situation is that the valley is not for everybody and the valley was definitely not the place for me.  I am happy to know that not only was God with me in the valley, there were other family, friends and well wishers that walked through the valley with me and supported my climb out of the valley.

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The bigger reality is that it is had work to get out of the valley.  And not only is it hard work getting out of the valley, there is hard work waiting for you when you come out of the valley.  And hard work was there waiting for me.  Not only did I delve back into the work on my dissertation, I decided to get a certificate in health policy and administration at the same time.  But I know that hard work pays off.  I also know that it is not just me.  That God is also on my side giving me the strength, the courage and the wisdom to do what I have set out to do.

I have worked hard all of my life for everything that I have.  I have worked hard to achieve my educational goals and I have also worked hard to achieve my work related goals.   I have spent many late nights and early mornings working and writing and thinking and doing what needed to be done and I have seen the hard work pay off.  Recently, began what is the final phases of my dissertation process and I can say that I still see the results of my hard work paying off.

I want to encourage anyone who feels like they want to give up to keep working at it.  Keep doing what God has placed in you to do to accomplish.  Surround yourself with positive people that encourage your growth and development and who want you to be as successful as you desire to be.  Most importantly keep going and keep growing and keep believing that not only that you CAN but that you WILL.  With God all things are possible and hard work does pay off!

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