You know that bubbly feeling of fresh love? It's AMAZING! Intoxicating... everyone can get high on this kind of love... But as the potential for deeper connection arrives, the soda bubbles stop tickling and swirling through our veins.... We see a wide and deep ocean waiting for us.
Then the most exquisite work begins... Our system feels the potential to heal, to integrate past traumas. We feel safe enough to test the waters of this relationship..... is it deep? Is it gentle? Is it safe to be ALL of me with this being? Two hopeful people merging their paths together. Our souls deepest desire is to be seen truly, to be our most vibrant, beautiful selves. The first step though begins with you, we need first to radically love ourselves, in order to be radically loved by another. To know that we are worthy of all the love, all the pleasure, all the peace that this universe is offering.
Deepest self compassion. And knowing, the being across from you is, in their own way, seeking the same feeling of safety, peace, and fulfillment that you are. Therefor, the deepest compassion for your partner in their journey is another essential ingredient to walking a path of growth together.
When we meet each other unveiled, and feel all the emotions that come with knowing the heights and depths this love partnership will bring us...All we are willing to receive is all we are willing to lose. And so, to be able to give it all, a foundational step is to know YOU can hold yourself first. I remember, very well, stepping through the portal(s) to the most ecstatic and deep love relationship I've ever dreamed of. Where our souls merge together to spin the stars, where we swim together through oceans of deepest, soul nourishing connection. And my favorite magical practice is to also do that in relation to myself.
There's the choice to be made, do I open to this level of love and life? Will I show up for myself, will I show up for this vulnerable being across from me? Am I enough?
It's SCARY. Because what we're willing to have we are also risking to lose.... I dreamed of the most authentic, bare, sexy, respectful, dedicated, romantic, dynamic, cherishing partnership... And I deserve nothing less. Its not easy to tend to the relationship as intensely as we do. But the rewards are like a well tended garden. The flowers are spectacular and abundant, and the fruits are juicy and delicious!! I will swim in the wildest waters and climb the highest mountains for the love I desire. And most of the time, I know I'm worth it. And I have a partner who does and knows the same.
So what's standing in the way of the deepest, most exhilarating, passionate, love you can imagine?
Your own fears, your own unworthiness, your deepest shames and pains.... Closing your eyes, locking your heart in an impenetrable box. How much pain we inflict on ourselves or submit to from media and these crazy modern social standards.... Because we have been trained into smallness and blinded to our own beauty?
The fact is, when you begin to develop the most absolute, unashamed self-love relationship with yourself, know and trust that you can hold yourself through any pain. And, believe in your own radiance and worthiness to receive the greatest blessings' life has to offer. Then the journey begins to the most ecstatic life that you can imagine... love is an oceanic field of energy, swirling all around and through us every second of our lives. I invite you to feel all of it. You ARE love. Does it mean life will never be hard? Definitely not, but I can tell you it's possible to receive the pain in a kind of pleasurable state, because you are so fucking grateful to be alive. Held by the Earth and loved by the universe. In the most exquisite love relationship which is available to every being on the planet, a radical self love journey of discovery, acceptance healing and pleasure.
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