Through: Affection? Acts of service? Quality time? Words of affirmation?
Know yours and your partner’s love language so you can recognise, understand and appreciate each other more.
We each have our own ways of showing and recognising love. Be sure to know yours so you can ask for what you need. And know your partner’s so you can give what they need.
Sometimes we can go a long time without realising how much we are loved because we see it in different ways.
The only point of power is in the present moment. It is the only thing that exists and the only time we can take action in.
We can envision a future and learn from the past, but we can only act now.
Act now with consciousness.
Act now with awareness of our priorities.
Act now with open eyes to the realities we face within climate change.
As a human race it is critical we act now and act consciously.
We can run from our feelings for years and years in an attempt to keep our demons from the door.
When we finally slow down and let ourselves feel, open the door and welcome the demons with a kind heart, we realise they are not actually our enemy at all, instead their return home is the very remedy necessary for cleansing our wounds.
We may need to cry and be present with past grief and pain, and yet this very learning; to come home and be compassionately with ourselves, is the pathway that in the end forges our strength and liberation.
When negativity is running the show it is a sign we are not in our right self.
Use it as a red flag to remind you to step back into your observer; to shine your awareness around inside you to see which part of you is on the stage in that moment.
There is nothing wrong with expressing things we aren’t happy with, this is part of the normal good and bad flow of life.
But when we indulge negativity or are in a way attached to it as a way of knowing ourselves and we feed off it, or it is a thought pattern we are in a way addicted to, this is where we need to wake up.
Discernment is a key life learning for empathic souls.
What is good for me and what is taking too much of a toll?
Am I to learn more patience, acceptance and tolerance or am I to stand up for what is right for me?
We need to realise (often through trying the hard way) that putting ourselves last doesn’t serve anyone.
Sometimes people take things the wrong way.
They hear what is said through the filter of their fears and insecurities.
Rather than actually listening to you, they are listening to their own belief systems.
We need to take care and responsibility and be respectful with our communication, and yet it is also important to know when it is not your fault.
When we know it’s not ours to fix or defend, we can often be more present and clear with our response.
Keep it real.
Keep it simple.
Don’t over think things.
It is what it is.
Allow your intuition to speak to you.
Trust in your higher knowing.
Be kind, inside and out.
Simplicity is the highest teacher.
You don’t have to get things right all the time. You’re allowed to be human and imperfect and learning all along the way.
There are levels within acceptance. There are levels within our being.
Do you let people in?
What stops you from receiving love and giving your whole heart?
First we must give our whole heart to the truth of letting go. To the journey of recognising our fears and how they hold us back.
A fulfilling life is when we know we have opened ourselves wide to the current of joy and sorrow and sharing and letting go.
We are human for a reason.
RATNA DYER 