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Love 2.0

Self-Love Meditation?

4/25/2014

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As I lay in bed this morning, I thought about getting up to do a meditation.  I tried a couple on, brushing my mind over them lightly.  "Ah!  This week is 'self-love meditation'!  Hmmmm....  self-love...  Do I have 'self-love'?"  

I tried saying, "May you be safe...."  

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," I thought.  "What are all these words worth?  They're just words.  Why should I believe them?  If I say 'May you be safe,' but do nothing, aren't I just a hypocrite?  What is 'loving' about saying the words?"

Then I had to respond.  I had to think about what I really thought it meant to "love myself."

Well, I haven't been getting enough exercise lately.  And I haven't been getting enough sleep lately.  So I congratulated myself on sleeping late and asked myself to consider what it was that I needed to do to get some exercise and get back in good graces with myself.  Then I went to work at the list.

I got to swim for 10 minutes this morning.  Since I've only swum about once before since last September, that was OK, though I would have loved to swim longer.

As I got out of the pool, I realized that if I would just learn to stop in mid pleasure when I was eating cheese cake or oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, I'd be in good shape.

I haven't gotten around to meditating yet today, but I think I really don't much care for the "self-love" one.  It's a good diagnostic, but not my cup of tea as a remedy.
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