Self Soothing
You can self soothe & relax… relax into the spaciousness within you & return to love, listen to your inner wisdom, and feel at peace with yourself.
Sacred Feminine energy exists within all of us. It is cool, quiet, still, nourishing, calm & peaceful.
These four tips are NOT a list of things to do every day. They are reminders of who you truly are. Compassion will help you lean into the sacred feminine energy of being. Self-care supports compassion. In time, you will notice Moments of genuine relaxed Connection and those moments expand into discovering your Innate Divinity.
1. Hold Yourself in Compassion
You cannot move beyond struggle without compassion. My former self was a master of self-deprecating thoughts that only fueled feeling stuck and unworthy of a vibrant life. I could passionately push myself to meditate and study but I had very little compassion for myself and my striving. I was hard on myself and hard on others. I did not realize just how much pressure I was putting on myself until I began holding myself in compassion. Self-deprecating thoughts like criticism dull the awareness to simple solutions. It narrows perception and makes it difficult to become aware of support of all kinds. Focusing on suffering with a compassionate heart does not solidify the suffering but rather transforms it to reveal a new more loving reality. Compassion invites us to open, soften, melt, ground, trust, surrender, transform, and receive all things nourishing. Misa Hopkins’ programs, teachings, and meditations are rich in compassion.
Compassion is like an enormous, comforting, energetic bubble around your body that is completely accepting of all your perceptions, emotions, and experiences. It invites you to stretch your awareness beyond your human perceived problems. Your loving attention expands the bubble. Being present this way, even for seconds of time, is you getting out of the way for the energy of Intelligent Love to flow through you and around you.
Questions to explore…
In what ways can I be softer with myself today?
What would it feel like to trust my path and treat myself kindly?
2. Establish a Self Care Routine
Self-care is a container for self-reflection and self-awareness. Self-care activities like journaling, baths, calming exercise, massage, being in nature, and restful meditation, chip away at habitual suffering and create room for love to blossom within. Choose anything that slows you down and gives you some space to regenerate and renew. Set healthy boundaries with others so that you won’t be disturbed during this precious time. I highly recommend making restful meditation part of your life. Withdrawing from the external world to focus inward is a perfect time to practice compassion. The Intelligent Divine is watching you and will give you more of what you give yourself.
Caring for self is like becoming a rocky beach receiving the ocean. Wave after wave crashes onto your shoreline. Infinite amounts of clean, salty water plummet into every crevasse, touching every stone, grain of sand, and the spaces between them. The vast ocean both brings in the new and takes away the old, leaving you feeling fresh, clean, and revived.
Questions to explore…
What quiet activities can I incorporate in my life to show the Divine how I want to be cared for?
What would it feel like to consciously choose relaxation and renewal?
3. Notice Moments of Connection
When you shower yourself consistently with kind compassion and care, the Divine will show itself to you in moments of connection. Let it become a game of noticing and replaying those beautiful moments. You have the capacity to recall the feeling of connecting with a dear friend in laughter or a moment of sincere listening. Feeling pleasantly connected to a person animal, nature etc. invites your loving presence. You can recall these moments, no matter how subtle or intense, and place your hands over your heart center and smile to yourself, for yourself. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. Think about anything you are noticing in your world or remembering now that is pleasing to you. For help, listen to the Audios 4 U page to receive soothing messages 4 you.
Loving connection and presence feels like being at the beach, breathing in ocean air. It enters your lungs and your body’s bloodstream. Oxygen is distributed throughout your body. This fresh air is within you and all around you. It touches your skin and seeps into your pores. Immersed in ionized air, you feel energized and relaxed. Every cell in your body benefits. You are laughing and talking to strangers in a state of carefree ease. Your mind is clear. Your heart is light. All feels right in your world.
Questions to explore…
What and who add to the quality of my life? And how?
How do I feel when someone appreciates me?
4. Tune into your Innate Divinity
There are many healing systems, modalities, and personal empowerment programs available today. I have benefitted from several and each was a step in my journey to recognizing that true change comes from within. If you are looking for a quick fix and mostly focused on feeling the lack of something, your inner stories are diminishing the empowered creator within you. The way out of something unwanted is to go IN. Go in and be compassionate and kind. Go in and feel grateful for your life. Go in with care. Go in to discover what inner stories you are believing about you. Go in and re-write your inner stories. For me, Dr. Joe Dispenza and Misa Hopkins programs have most helped me to connect with my Innate Divinity within. Study truth teachings that resonate with you. Study people who have overcome adversity to become people helping people remember their value. Divine Love is already within you. You would not exist otherwise. Tuning into the Divine within is a process of weeding out inner stories that are hindering this knowing. Create new ones reflecting how you want to feel when the health, the job, the relationship are part of your physical experience. As Dr. Joe says, “Live like your prayers have been answered.” The Divine will blow your mind with outpourings to match how you think and feel.
Tuning into you Innate Divinity feels like experiencing yourself as a healthy, thriving baby whose needs are all being graciously tended to with love, understanding, and joy. Emotions are expressed freely. Worry or concern about how your needs will be met is non-existent. Whatever you need shows up for you in delightful ways. You see the world through the eyes of wonder. You receive and give love wholeheartedly. You sleep well, eat well, laugh and cry. People want to hold you and shower you with compliments. You are curious and funny. All is well.
Questions to explore…
What would it feel to know that everything I need is within me?
How does a person who knows their value feel and think?