Rituals for Self Love

All the reasons these rituals (and more self-love and self-appreciation) will drastically enhance your state of mind and the quality of your relationships.

A little talk about rituals, neuroplasticity, and how we will integrate change with ease.

Distraction is keeping you from being with yourself

A few years ago I joined a two week course on Pranayama at a yoga university outside of Mumbai India. While there, the happiest 92 year old professor of yoga guided us through a breathing sequence (the same exact one) every single day.

By the time I left India, I realized that I had almost no anxiety or stress in my body.

This is one of my favorite "anti-anxiety" rituals, I hope it works as well for you as it does for me.

Julia Cameron Morning Pages. and a chat with Elizabeth Gilbert on the creative processes we are moving into here.

Introduce your lesson with an optional, short summary. You can edit this excerpt in lesson settings.

I found that Osho's Dynamic Meditation helped me to move these energies that at times felt were consuming me. No matter what is living within you, it always changes. This meditation is one of my favorite rituals for helping to be with it and also actually move it around. I believe depression breeds in stagnation, when we dont move or change. So, whether you are dealing with anger, anxiety, depression or any other strong emotion, try this movement meditation and see if it helps you.

Learning to be easier on yourself comes before cheering yourself on. So lets start by simply being nice to ourselves.

Let Brene Brown explain why being open. honest and accepting of the things we most stuggle with, we can be freed from the shame. Shame carries a heavy weight we dont want to carry. Let it go.

Rituals for Self-kindness | Replacing negative self-talk with positive affirmations

Buddhist Nun Pema Chodron explaining Maitri

Create a life you can fall in love withnot with a yearning to make it happen now, but with inspiration and excitement to do the little steps that need to happen everyday. The moment I created a beautiful vision for myself that I would like to see happen, I stopped looking at the past and started focusing on making the now more important, knowing it was leading me to a very inspiring place.

Imagine boundaries as them as the fence that surrounds your home, reflecting how much you value what you have. Boundaries protect your heart, like a fence protects your home

Making small rituals for big changes.

We often resist most deeply the things that we want most. -Brianna Wiest. Learning how to stop self-sabotagng.

An article you should read on positive self talk and what science has proven to be true:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/positive-self-talk#negative-self-talk

A Positive Rampage - listen until it feels nearly memorized.

Affirmations and the power of I AM statements. yesssss.

A Video on Reversing Negative Momentum

Our Life Purpose | The Journey of Understanding Your Self-worth

Learning to really truly deeply enjoy the majority of your life.

Amazing Inspiring Talk by Alan Watts

Your Rituals for Self Love | Bringing it all together and embodying self-love in your daily life