When the month of February comes, all the advertising seems to shift to Romance, Love, Chocolates, Flowers and Fine Jewelry. While all these things are wonderful to share in the experience of LOVE, particularly the romative type…there really is much more to love than romance and all these wonderful things.

Let’s look at love from a different perspective. How about looking at love as the raising of your vibration by how open your heart is. Love is the willingnes to be vulnerable, it is opening your heart to first, accept yourself. Then once you are able to open your heart to yourself, then you can open it up to accept others. As you learn to love yourself and others, you increase your vibration. You can feel more alive, expansive and renewed. 

LOVE CREATES HEALING…

This concept of “loving yourself” is a difficult one for human beings to master. Some people have so many negative thoughts about themselves, they can’t even conceive of the idea of loving themselves. But, if you start with the thought that “Our Creator does not make junk”, perhaps then you can be less harsh with your negative self-talk and start to think what gifts you possess that are worthy of your love.

Perhaps you can imagine what others love about you. How do people compliment you? What do people notice about you, that you may take for granted and think is not even a gift?

Maybe you are tall and short people wish they had your height. Maybe you are short and petite and the taller people wish they could have that experience of being little. It is not about wishing for something we do not have, it is about loving ourselves enough to appreciate our unique self, where nobody is truly like us.

Even IF you feel imperfect (which most of us do), love your imperfections. Love your insecurities, your negative thoughts, your anger, your doubt and your fear. You don’t change these thoughts by hating them or denying them. You can only change them by being gentle with yourself and by loving them away!

ALL NEGATIVITY IS A CRY FOR MORE LOVE… 

Everybody can use more love. When you come across a person who is negative, see IF you can help ShIFt their negativity by showing how much you care. Ask them IF they are hurting and IF there is any way you can support them.  “How may I support you?” Just that question alone, may shIFT them, because you are showing that you care.

As you open to love, you can experience a more beautiful world around you.

Here is an affirmation from Louise Hay, author of You can Heal Your Life, which is one of my favorite books:

“Deep at the center of my being, there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface. It fills my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being, and radiates out from me in all directions and returns to me multiplied…” p.102

BE the love you want to receive in the world to yourself first and then it is easier to give that love out unconditionally to those you come into contact with.

IF you are consistent, based on the Law of Attraction (like attracts like), your world will be filled with love, because as you ShIFt your vibration to love, you then will attract it right back to you. This stuff really works, IF you shIFT and truly believe it! 

With All my Love,

Christina Carpentier

Master ShIFt Coach