The Love Project- Self Love/Romantic Love

I was going to move on to Romantic Love next but I found a couple of  sites about liking and loving yourself and since a lot of what I read says that you need to like and love yourself before you can love someone else, I thought I'd include them.

This one is all about liking yourself: http://effervescence.me/  (Site currently down)

And this one is about self love and peace of mind: www.vironika.org


Also here is an article that's good for another "crossover" post (before I move on to Romantic Love fully):

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/3-questions-to-ask-yourself-before-you-enter-a-relationship/

It's about questions you can ask yourself before you get into a relationship. You can ask what the relationship is for (what do you want to experience in it?), are there any limiting beliefs blocking you from connecting with others and are you more focused on someone's looks/body or their mind and whether they're truly right for you? It has some good advice and is worth checking out.

 If you have some limiting beliefs that you want to shift, here are a couple of  links to help you do that:

http://www.deliberatereceiving.com/releasing-negative-beliefs.html#axzz2uAXnKSvt

https://livealifeyoulove.com/want-to-rock-your-world-change-your-core-beliefs/

 http://livealifeyoulove.com/its-easier-than-you-think-how-to-change-a-core-belief/


These are good resources for changing beliefs, especially Live A Life You Love. Hope you find them helpful. :)


P.S. This isn't really related to love but I thought I'd mention it anyway- I'm signed up to a free 14 Day Money and Abundance Challenge that starts tomorrow  (24th February). So if you're interested in manifesting more money and/or abundance check it out here: http://rhodajordan.com/manifest-like-boss/

If you shift in one area of your life, it may help you shift in others, so it's worth having a look at. :)

Gratitude List

Things I'm grateful for this month:

Tesco magazine- I made the tomato soup recipe for lunch the other day
Sonia Choquette's book Your Heart's Desire
Effervescence- a site about liking yourself
The song I bought on iTunes- This Is What It Feels Like by BANKS
My neck muffler. :)
Buses
Finally making Coca-Cola chocolate cake!
Costa Coffee



P.S. I'm currently signed up to the 7th series of free global telesummit From Heartache to Joy, which contains live calls (and replays) from healers and spiritual people. The first one was good and this one goes on until May. Check it out here: http://fromheartachetojoy.com/series7/

The Love Project- Self Love/Romantic Love

I've got really behind with this, sorry about that! Here is the next post. This one is a crossover from Self Love to Romantic Love.

First up a couple of posts focusing on self love.

On being happy with who you are:

http://alifeofperfectdays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/5-ways-to-become-truly-happy-with-who.html

Here's another about becoming the person you want to be:

http://alifeofperfectdays.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/secret-to-becoming-person-you-want-to.html

And then here is a post about whether you're looking for a relationship to complete yourself.  I've often heard it said that you should be complete by yourself and not rely on someone else to complete you. So the idea is that rather than being two halves of a whole with someone else, you're two wholes coming together.

Some people say that you don't need a relationship at all but my personal opinion is that it's a perfectly natural to want a romantic relationship, just like it's natural to want friends and good relationships with your family. As humans we want to connect with others and obviously the human race relies on people getting together to keep going! But I prefer the idea of two complete people coming together as a whole because if you think you're incomplete on your own, then it makes you a bit desperate and that's not a good thing because it can make you miserable. I believe it's important to be whole and comfortable with yourself because you can't always rely on other people.

Check out the article here: http://personalexcellence.co/blog/are-you-looking-for-a-relationship-to-complete-yourself/

Here is a post on Twin Flames (a Twin Flame is a person said to be the other half of your soul but this site has a different view): http://www.soulevolution.org/twinflames/twinflames.htm


Also I recently finished the Connection, Possibly and YOU program with Adrienne Martin. It's the second one I've done (the first was last September and lasted 30 days, this was a 10 day program that ran during this month) and I enjoyed it. I found it really helpful. The course was about deepening your connection to yourself, the world around you and your Divine (whatever that is- God, Allah, gods and goddesses, the universe etc). One of the main messages I took from it is that there's nothing to fix, you're not broken, you are enough and as you continue along the path you become more of who you are.

Adrienne posted daily videos and also did visualisations and meditations, along with a blessing. There is a movement called the Oneness Awakening and the blessing is part of that, it's called a Deeksha Blessing. Learn more about it here: http://adriennemartin.com/oneness/*



So many of us struggle with not feeling good enough, not attractive enough or rich enough or thin enough etc. I think we all need to know: You are enough.

I hope that was helpful. :) I can't really write about any of these things with authority, I'm just sharing what I've learnt and hopefully it will help someone, now or in the future. :)


* Update 25/10/16: The Oneness page isn't there anymore but I'll update if it comes back. :)

Gratitude List

Things I'm grateful for this month:

The presents I got for Christmas and the nice Christmas dinner
The Christmas vanilla roll cake I made
Christmas lights and decorations
The Asian Music Awards being on British TV!
The Connection, Possibility and YOU free program I'm doing currently (2nd one I've done)
Hero by Rhonda Byrne (author of The Secret)
The £25 iTunes voucher I got with my points from Maximiles! :)
My new top

Gratitude List

Things I'm grateful for this month:

Christmas
Chocolate advent calendars (not just for kids! lol)
The X-Files being back on TV (on new channel Lifetime)
McDonald's festive menu 
Mayberry Garden Centre
The weather being warmer than it has been
The From Heartache to Joy free summit that I'm signed up to currently
The  e-book Unleash the Magic I got as a free gift from listening to Sonia Miller's call

The Love Project- Self Love

Sorry I've taken a while to post this, I got behind with things. :)

Continuing the self love theme, here are a couple of posts on the concept of beauty and how you're actually more beautiful than you think you are:


PE article on beauty

https://melodyfletcher.com/2011/07/24/what-if-youre-a-lot-more-beautiful-than-you-think-you-are/


I think that not feeling beautiful is something a lot of us struggle with, we never feel good enough or pretty enough but is there such a thing as "good enough" or "pretty enough"? And when will we feel that we truly are those things? On the other hand, there are people who say their beauty holds them back and gets in the way of forming relationships ,because people feel jealous of them or intimidated by them. It seems hard to understand if you're not someone like that but for the people who go through it, maybe it is as bad as not feeling beautiful enough.

The posts above can help you to see that there are different standards of beauty in the world, so there will be at least one person out there who thinks you're beautiful and probably many more! But the more I read, the more I realise how important it is that you think of yourself as beautiful* and that you have self worth.


*24/5/14- I just re-read this and realised that I originally wrote "think yourself beautiful". I think I meant, "think of yourself as beautiful" but "think yourself beautiful" is a good phrase, especially in relation to the Law of Attraction!

Also, here are a couple of posts on self love and being fine as you are:

Update 19/8/21- Site now gone.


http://www.thebridgemaker.com/happiness-is-self-love/

http://www.thebridgemaker.com/okay-not-to-be-perfect/



P.S. I'm signed up to the From Heartache to Joy free summit which is going on currently. You can listen to calls from personal development and Law of Attraction experts and spiritual healers. Some do healing live on the call and you can also listen to replays. Check it out here: http://fromheartachetojoy.com/series6/

Gratitude List

Things I'm grateful for this month:

Hallowe'n (it's technically last month now but never mind!)
Bonfire Night
Maria Kang
EverythingIsWithin.com and the free e-book Create Your Dream Life, that I got for signing up to the newsletter!
Toffee apples (had one for Hallowe'en)
Dance Moms- I do find Abby really annoying but it is entertaining and they had it on every day this past week, so I've been watching a lot of it and got more into it, lol.
eBay
Ginger beer