Love yourself as you are
You are enough
Nourish your centre
Come home to yourself
- I pull up a chair & get acquainted with the me that exists right now. I am enough! I am beautiful as I am. This is a wonderful & courageous step. I can relax & enjoy myself. I become more tolerant of myself & others. I am able to delight in uniqueness. John Kehoe
- I come home to life as well. Things are what they are. I let go & allow life to just happen, instead of trying to orchestrate it. I appreciate everything just for what it is. I've tried to make believe life is something it is not - some utopia where every dream is fulfilled. Life is happy & sad. Life is joy & grief. Life is health & sickness. Life is excitement & boredom. Life is having friends & being lonely. Life is achieving your goals & failing at your goals. Life is being confused & being sure. Life is what it is & if I look at it beyond my illusion of what I think it should be, I find within its diversity, tremendous beauty & goodness. Friendship, a brilliant blue sky, making love, sunsets, acts of kindness, the beach, trees, a good movie, delicious food, a hot bath, beautiful music. Maybe there's no caviar but there's always a hot bowl of soup & it will nourish me. I let go of any bitterness, disappointment, anxiety or frustration & let the sun warm my bones. Wake up! Life is spilling out abundantly. Come home & enjoy it. John Kehoe
Love Yourself As You Are
- Behold thyself in glory. Love thyself as I love you. In this way you honour Me. It is your duty to love yourself deeply, totally, unconditionally. To see yourself as something of great worth. To do less is to deny the task for which you were born. What of your faults & inadequacies? Resolve to love them as part of who you are. You are beautiful because of them. They are part of your uniqueness, like markings on a wild animal. They give you flavour. Make you real. Allow yourself & others to make mistakes, miss opportunities, & make foolish decisions. Recognise & accept your vulnerability & fragility. Your quirks & idiosyncrasies - all part of who you are. You are beautiful & special because of your humanness - in fact, this is where your true beauty lies. As the day accepts the sun & the night accepts the moon, so you accept yourself. And so you become complete & whole. John Kehoe
- I resolve to renounce all guilt and remorse for all mistakes, past and future. I do my best. No more is asked. Sometimes I will make bad decisions. Sometimes consequences will result which will hurt others. I am human. But I will not pay too much heed to these things. I will offer a silent prayer and move on. There is no point in regret or self-recrimination. For no matter how dire the consequences I imagine, the sun will still shine. Rivers will still run. The tree will produce fruit. The ocean tides will ebb. When I allow myself to be human and let go of my harsh judgements, I flower and bloom. My eyes are opened to my worth. Talents and gifts I never knew I had, begin to reveal themselves. Every part of me bathes in the warm glow of love and acceptance. Strengths, abilities, weaknesses and inadequacies. All things become new. No regret or shame. A life nourished from within. As the day accepts the sun and the night accepts the moon, so I accept myself. And so I become complete and whole. John Kehoe
- I am the prism by which all is perceived. I need not change, make myself better or more beautiful - I have merely to behold myself as beautiful & it will be so. Wondrous, it is so. John Kehoe
You Are Enough
- I grow to experience greater happiness, not to improve or because I feel incomplete. Dr Wayne W. Dyer
- Happiness is having a sense of self - not a feeling of being perfect but of being good enough and knowing that you are in the process of growth, of being, of achieving levels of joy. Leo Buscaglia
- I may not be totally perfect but parts of me are excellent. Ashleigh Brilliant
Give Yourself A Break
- Freedom from must and shoulds is freedom from musturbation. Replace musts and shoulds with I may or I choose. Albert Ellis
The strength from within
- When your centre is strong, everything else is secondary. Elie Wiesel
- A pleasant and happy life does not come from external things. Man draws from within himself, as from a spring, pleasure and joy. (Plutarch)
- Eliminate dependency. I may want but I do not need. I am the sunshine of my life and having you in it makes it even brighter. Dr Wayne W. Dyer
He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. Longfellow
- Joy is not in things, it is in us. (Richard Wagner)
- How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel
- When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are. N. D. Walsch
- Accept yourself as you are right now. I may not be perfect, but I okay just the way I am. Richard Carlson
Nourish your centre
- Learn to pat yourself on the back for your past and present victories, not matter how small. Search for things to acknowledge. Write down every strong point you can come up with in your life, past and present. John Kehoe
- Redefine a "meaningful accomplishment." If being peaceful and loving are amongst your primary goals, then why not redefine your most meaningful accomplishments as being those that support and measure qualities such as kindness and happiness. Richard Carlson
- I catch myself doing things right. I am my own best friend. I give myself a hug. Dr Irene C. Kassorla
Nourish your body
- I nourish my body through exercise, rest, good posture & healthy food
- Vibrant health is based on natural principles. It grows over time out of regular exercise, proper nutrition, adequate rest, a healthy mind-set, avoiding substances that are harmful to the body. Stephen Covey
