ROSEMARY’S EXPLORATION: Conscious Relationships Start with Self-Love

April 18, 2014 — Rosemary

All Love flows from Self-Love.

I’ve shared this many times and will keep doing so until each of us is totally in love with our own divine Self!

The most important relationship you have is the one you have with yourself. What is the measure of that relationship right now? Are you giving this relationship time, nurturing, attention, even money? Or are you putting off taking care of yourself while you care for others, or think that you cannot ‘afford’ to take care of yourself?

Human beings are relationship experts. We are constantly adjusting relationships, in one direction or another. Relationships with significant others, with parents and with children, with co-workers, clients, neighbors, hairdressers, waitstaff at the local restaurant, checker at the grocery store. Every interaction with another human being is an element of a relationship. If you are having a bad day, do you walk into the hardware store and act like the grumpy guy from down the street? When you have a bad day at work, do you come home and snap at the family?

When you have a great day, do you smile at the barista at Starbucks? Bring flowers home for the dinner table? Call a friend just to say ‘hi’?

You have choices. And every interaction with another human being involves a choice on your part about how you are showing up in that relationship.

Maybe you haven’t thought about how you treat the teller at the bank as a ‘relationship,’ but it is. It deserves care and tending. Your family members, too, deserve to have a relationship with you that comes from caring and love and it is your choice whether or not to offer nurturing in that relationship.

The first choice that you are called to make is to be true to your Self. Your relationship to your inner Self determines how you will relate to others. Do you struggle with a lack of self-love? Do you lash out at others instead of taking a breath and seeking guidance from your inner wisdom? Do you judge people without compassion about their circumstances, about which you might know nothing?

Who you are, deep in your core, is a beautiful being of Light. Who you are, inside, is a spark of divine energy. Who you are, in the essence of you, is a person of access to great wisdom and love. THIS is the person that you really want to show up in every relationship, isn’t it?

Take some time today to check in with yourself about your relationship with your Self. Tap into your own inner wisdom as you look around at the relationships in which you participate every day.

The word ‘namaste’ means ‘the Light in me honors the Light in you.’ Let your Light shine in every connection that you experience. Come from loving yourself, valuing that Light within, and sharing that Light with the outer world.

Conscious Relationships are the most rewarding. Start with a Conscious Relationship with your Self!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE: Loving the World into Peace

February 15, 2010 — Rosemary
Dear Ones,

Today we would speak to you of love again.  How many messages of love can there be, you might ask?  Very many is the answer.

When one loves because their heart is open then there are no boundaries to that love, no judgment inherent in the love that is offered to another or to a group of others.  When one experiences a love that is truly unconditional then one is experiencing the energy of the Divine.

Too many people in 21st Century Earth are living with the mistaken notion that Love, with a capital ‘L,’ is an emotion that starts and stops, is earned or won, can be withheld if the person loved doesn’t measure up to some standard.  We would tell you that this notion is not about ‘Love.’  In fact, it has nothing to do with ‘Love.’  Affection is affected by whims or behaviors.  Romantic love that is not based on an open heart and that does not stem from a person who loves their Inner Self is not the kind of romantic Love that endures.  And true Love in its essence extends way beyond the romantic Love so many wish to experience.

Love of Self is the fundamental energy of loving another.  One must love the Inner Self, the being that is timeless and lives within each human being.  Connection to the Love of Self allows one to Love another.  But this kind of Love goes even deeper than the romantic Love.

When one has complete Love of Self one can only see others as Lovable beings.  One who is truly in the space and energy of Love allows all other beings to be exactly who they are at their core and Loves and accepts them as such.  One who can Love like this sees the connection with all other beings as immutable, so strong as to be unbreakable, so elemental that there can be no disputing it.  The word ‘Namaste’ recognizes this connection and honors it – ‘the Divine within me honors the Divine within you.’  This is what you are doing when you first recognize that your Inner Self is the Divine within you and that all beings have this Inner Self.

People who are understanding of this kind of Love and connection do not wage war against other human beings.  People who can Love this way do not sow hatred and intolerance.  People who recognize the Divine in others do not discriminate against any other group of beings.

Imagine the world in which you live if it were peopled by human beings who Love and accept all other human beings as having the Divine within them.  This is the description of a world at Peace.  There cannot be Peace without the understanding that an individual is responsible for their own Peace, within and about them, and that only through Loving others can there be Peace between people.

We would ask you to consider those for whom you find it difficult to hold warm feelings.  We understand that ‘feeling’ this kind of Love for all others is a tall order.  But the Love of which we speak is a choice about how you see another person or a group of people, especially those who might be different from you.  We are asking you to make a choice, right not, as you encounter our words, to first connect with your Inner Self and stir up the Love for the Divine within you, and then move that Love outward to encompass all those around you, all those with whom you come into contact, and then especially all those with whom you have differences or disagreements.  Next extend this Love around Planet Earth to all beings.  We are not saying that you must ‘feel’ warmth for everyone nor that you must approve of all behaviors, but you CAN make a decision to honor the eternal nature that is within every being.

Let the Divine within you honor the Divine within all that live on Planet Earth.  Energize this thought as often as you can.  As the word reaches others to do the same, you will begin to feel strongly your connection to All and the Love that exists in that connection.

And so it is.

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