Healing the Heart (Chakra)

Love heals all things, all souls, all hearts. Remarkably, even the most brokenhearted have enough love to heal themselves, with love to spare. Let the love that is within radiate outwards and extend to all who are beloved and all who have caused injury. Pray peace, wholeness, well-being, love and joy in the lives of those who have caused the greatest hurt. Love abounds. And it will heal and transform and renew. Inhale. Exhale. Feel the love. Share the love. Just love and be loved.

I Almost Forgot to Love Myself

I almost forgot to love myself.

I don't know how it happened,

one day I was looking in the mirror and I didn't like what I saw

I criticized myself - my face, my body, my smile, my eyes, my thighs

I was even critical of the woman within.

For a moment - a long moment, much too long - 

I put my love for myself on hold

and forgot that it was there.

I lost my joy.

It wasn't gone, just misplaced.

I didn't know where to find it.

Then I saw a woman who looked like me

or who I could be

if I were fully myself

as she was fully herself.

I saw her love for herself on her face

and it was like looking into a mirror.

I saw the memory of my love for myself 

in her love for herself

and I remembered.

I almost forgot to love myself

and then I remembered

my first love, my true love.

Hello gorgeous!

Hello darling!

I love you.