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Receive a message from the Living With Joy book by going to the "Creating Your Highest Future" room. Click on the Living with Joy book picture, and read the message that comes up. Receive your personal affirmation in the Daily Affirmation Room. For an article on living with joy and releasing struggle, go here. If you would like to listen to Thaddeus' music while reading this book excerpt, go to the listening room first. Read the weekly meditation based on this book excerpt. Orin: There are many ways you can love yourself, and everything that happens to you is an opportunity to have a loving experience. Seen in the right perspective, anything can provide you with an occasion to love yourself. When things seem to be going against you, they are only happening to show you blocks to your usable power. I am sure if I asked you to make a list of things to do that would be loving to yourself you would be able to think of many. There may be a part of you that reminds you that you're not carrying those things out, and a battle begins. This inner war can be draining, and making yourself wrong is not a right use of energy. Loving yourself is an agreement with yourself to appreciate, validate, accept and support who you are at this moment. It means living in present time. Many of you look back into the past with regret, thinking of how you could have handled a situation in a higher way, imagining if only you had done this or that, things would have worked out better. Some of you look into the future to make who you are right now inadequate. The past can assist you if you remember the times in which you succeeded, creating positive memories, and the future can be your friend if you see that in picturing it you are creating a vision of the next step. Do not make yourself wrong because you have not yet achieved it. It is important to love who you are now without reservation. Loving
yourself means Everything you have experienced up until now is what you were born to learn about. Whether you label it good or bad, it is what composes your being, your uniqueness and purpose. If you could see yourself from my perspective, you would view yourself as a crystal with many facets. Each of you is completely different, a unique combination of energy. Each of you is beautiful, special, and one-of-a-kind, as is each crystal. You reflect light in a unique way, thus your aura varies from those around you. If you could appreciate your uniqueness, see that the path you have chosen is different from anyone else's, it would be easier to detach from others' views and follow your guidance. One of the ways to love yourself more is to stop comparing yourself to others. Although you are part of a whole, you are also an individual self, with your own path. The group and family belief systems you have taken on as your own can be obstacles to your self-love. "Everybody says it is good to meditate," you may be hearing, and so you feel bad if you don't do so. The challenge of loving the self is to step aside from everything you are told, and ask, "Does this fit me? Does this bring me joy? Do I feel good when I do it?" It is ultimately your own experience that counts. Note
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