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Let Go and Love Yourself First: The Power of Self-Acceptance · Motivation Mindset Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I think it really starts with realizing that you don't
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  Speaker 1: love yourself, that most people don't. Most people feel they're
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  Speaker 1: not good enough, that they haven't done it right, they
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  Speaker 1: won't do it right, they'll never be enough, and they're
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  Speaker 1: definitely not lovable. And when we come from that space,
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  Speaker 1: it's very hard to create things for ourselves that are
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  Speaker 1: really good. So in the early days when I worked
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  Speaker 1: with people, I used to fix this problem and fix
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  Speaker 1: that problem, and you'd have this a health thing, and
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  Speaker 1: we'd work on that, and we'd work on this. And
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  Speaker 1: one day I discovered, much to my amazement, that if
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  Speaker 1: I would help people learn to love themselves, to really
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  Speaker 1: accept themselves as they are, we didn't have to work
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  Speaker 1: around problems because it was almost like a miracle. Everything
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  Speaker 1: seemed to fall away. It's a hard one for people
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  Speaker 1: because we grow up believing that we're not good enough
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  Speaker 1: and nothing is right. I remember lots of times I
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  Speaker 1: would ask people, well, what is really wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: What have you done that is so terrible that you're
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  Speaker 1: not acceptable to yourself? And I never ever ever got
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  Speaker 1: an answer that made any sense. You know, they might
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  Speaker 1: say something like, well, i'm too fat, well soul it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, but when you talk about loving yourself, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people think that that's vanity, but it isn't. Really,
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  Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with that that is narcissistic.
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  Speaker 1: But to really care for you and to acknowledge that
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  Speaker 1: you are an important being. It's almost like in the
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  Speaker 1: Bible they would say, you recognize that you are a
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  Speaker 1: child of God, that therefore you are perfect. But even
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  Speaker 1: if you're not a biblical person, if you can recognize
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  Speaker 1: that you are a being that has self worth, if
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  Speaker 1: you can really recognize your own worth, then you start
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  Speaker 1: to treat yourself differently. And I think that's what's so
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  Speaker 1: very important about loving yourself is you stop beating yourself up,
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  Speaker 1: you stop making yourself wrong, you stop talking about how
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  Speaker 1: awful you are, and you stop saying things like I'm
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  Speaker 1: really stupid and stuff, and you start to treat yourself
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  Speaker 1: with a certain amount of respect. And this makes an
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  Speaker 1: enormous difference because what you give out in life is
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  Speaker 1: what comes back to you. So if you're giving out
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  Speaker 1: a feeling of I'm okay, I'm good enough as I am,
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  Speaker 1: and I am acceptable, and I love life and I
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  Speaker 1: love me, and you start having gratitude for yourself and
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  Speaker 1: for life. Then life treats you differently because you are
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  Speaker 1: having a different vibration.
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  Speaker 2: That you're giving out and.
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  Speaker 1: Getting back, and that's when things really start to flow.
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  Speaker 1: Now a lot of people don't realize it, but you
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  Speaker 1: have to practice. You just have to start it. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why I try to get people to do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of mirror work. If you look in the mirror,
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  Speaker 1: just simple things like looking in the mirror in your
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  Speaker 1: own eyes and say I love you, I really really
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  Speaker 1: love you, And it helps. If you here's your name, Louise,
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  Speaker 1: I love you, I really love you. It gets to
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  Speaker 1: that little child inside that has been rejected for so
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  Speaker 1: long and it breaks open sort of a damn or
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  Speaker 1: a door or whatever you want to call it, and
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  Speaker 1: it's like little miracles start to happen. Lots of little
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  Speaker 1: good things happen, and the universe loves grateful people. The
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  Speaker 1: more grateful you are, the more you get to be
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  Speaker 1: grateful about.
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  Speaker 2: Now that we understand a little bit more about how
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  Speaker 2: powerful our thoughts and words are, we can choose to
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  Speaker 2: retrain our thinking and speaking into positive patterns if we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get beneficial results. Are you willing to change
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  Speaker 2: yourself talk into positive affirmations. Remember, every time you think
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  Speaker 2: a thought and every time you speak a word, you
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  Speaker 2: are saying an affirmation, and affirmation is a begin point.
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  Speaker 2: It opens the way to change. In essence, you are
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  Speaker 2: saying to your subconscious mind, I am taking responsibility. I
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  Speaker 2: am aware that there is something I can do to change.
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  Speaker 2: When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean to consciously
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  Speaker 2: choose sentences or words that will either help to eliminate
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  Speaker 2: something from your life or help to create something new
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  Speaker 2: in your life. And you do this in a positive way.
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  Speaker 2: If you say I don't want to be sick any more,
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  Speaker 2: the subconscious mind hears sick more. Now you want to
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  Speaker 2: tell it clearly what you do want. That is, say
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  Speaker 2: I am a healthy person. I radiate good health. The
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  Speaker 2: subconscious mind is very straightforward. It has no strategy or designs.
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  Speaker 2: What it hears is what it does. If you say
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  Speaker 2: I hate this car, it doesn't give you a wonderful
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  Speaker 2: new car because it doesn't know what you want. Even
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  Speaker 2: if you get a new car, you will probably hate
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  Speaker 2: it soon because that is what you've been saying about it.
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  Speaker 2: The subconscious only hears hate this car. You need to
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  Speaker 2: clearly declare your desires in a positive way, as in
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  Speaker 2: I have a beautiful new car that suits all my needs,
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  Speaker 2: or I always have a car that I love. If
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  Speaker 2: there is something in your life that you really dislike,
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  Speaker 2: I have found one of the quickest ways to release
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  Speaker 2: it is to bless it with love. I bless you
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  Speaker 2: with love, and I release you and let you go.
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  Speaker 2: This works for people, situations, objects, and living quarters. You
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  Speaker 2: could even try it on a habit you would like
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  Speaker 2: to be free of and see what happens. I knew
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  Speaker 2: one man who said, I bless you with love and
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  Speaker 2: release you from my life to every cigarette he smoked.
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  Speaker 2: After a few days, his desire for smoking was considerably less,
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  Speaker 2: and in a few weeks the habit was gone. Deserve good.
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  Speaker 2: Think for a moment, what is it you really want
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  Speaker 2: right now? What is it you want to day in
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  Speaker 2: your life? Think about it, and then say, I accept
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  Speaker 2: for myself whatever it is that you want. This is
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  Speaker 2: where I find that most of us get stuck. The
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  Speaker 2: bottom line is the belief that we don't deserve to
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  Speaker 2: have what we want. Our personal power lies in the
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  Speaker 2: way we perceive our deservability. Our not deserving comes from
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  Speaker 2: childhood messages. Again, we don't have to feel that we
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  Speaker 2: cannot change because of these messages. Often people will come
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  Speaker 2: to me and say, Louise, affirmations don't work. It really
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  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with affirmations. It is the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we don't believe we deserve the good. The way
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  Speaker 2: to find out if you believe that you deserve something
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  Speaker 2: is to say an affirmation and notice the thoughts that
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  Speaker 2: come up as you say it, and write them down,
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  Speaker 2: because when you see these thoughts on paper, they will
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  Speaker 2: be very clear to you. The only thing that keeps
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  Speaker 2: you from deserving or loving yourself or whatever is someone
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  Speaker 2: else's belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.
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  Speaker 2: When we don't believe that we deserve good, we will
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  Speaker 2: knock the pinnings out from under ourselves, which we can
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  Speaker 2: do in a variety of ways. We can create chaos,
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  Speaker 2: we can lose things, we can hurt ourselves or have
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  Speaker 2: physical problems like falling or have accidents. We want to
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  Speaker 2: start believing that we deserve all the good that life
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  Speaker 2: has to offer in order to reprogram the false or
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  Speaker 2: negative belief. What would be the first thought that you
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  Speaker 2: would need to begin to create this new whatever in
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  Speaker 2: your life. What would be the building block or the
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  Speaker 2: foundation that you would need to stand on. What would
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  Speaker 2: be the sort of thing that you would need to
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  Speaker 2: know for yourself to belie leave to accept. Some good
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  Speaker 2: thoughts to start with could be I am worthwhile, I
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  Speaker 2: am deserving, I love myself, I allow myself to be fulfilled, etc.
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  Speaker 2: These concepts form the very basis of beliefs on which
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  Speaker 2: you can build. Do your affirmations on top of these
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  Speaker 2: building blocks to create what you want to begin with.
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  Speaker 1: You start by doing what we call doing affirmations, and
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  Speaker 1: that is making positive statements about your life that are positive,
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  Speaker 1: and you do them deliberately. You might do them in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. You might do them at noon, you might
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  Speaker 1: do them at night. You might do them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: twice a day or whatever which you do this, and
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  Speaker 1: you let this become a habit, and as you start
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  Speaker 1: to do them, things will begin to change, maybe on
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  Speaker 1: a very small level. I call it getting the green
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  Speaker 1: lights in the parking places. I mean, they're not huge
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  Speaker 1: things in your life. It can be very nice when
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  Speaker 1: you get through green lights in a row and you're
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  Speaker 1: in a hurry. Doing an affirmation is either writing it
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  Speaker 1: down writing it on the wall or the mirror, or
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  Speaker 1: using just saying it. What I like people to do
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  Speaker 1: is to stand in front of the mirror and do
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  Speaker 1: their affirmations, because there's something very powerful about looking in
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  Speaker 1: your own eyes, getting and accepting yourself or noticing that
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  Speaker 1: you reject yourself when you're saying something positive about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: So that would be a very beginning way to start.
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  Speaker 1: Say in the morning, you get up in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: you go to the mirror. And this is a big one,
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  Speaker 1: and it's hard for lots of people, but you look
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  Speaker 1: in the mirror and I say and say I love you,
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  Speaker 1: I really really love you. And to begin with that
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  Speaker 1: can be so hard for people because they think of
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  Speaker 1: all the things that they think are wrong with them.
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  Speaker 1: But if you can start your day saying that, it's
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  Speaker 1: very powerful. Remember, I'd like to think the universe is
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  Speaker 1: listening to everything you say and everything you think and say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you can get that, so then it starts to bring
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  Speaker 1: you in and bring things into you. And I know
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  Speaker 1: this sounds far fetched, but it's amazing how it works.
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  Speaker 1: If you do a good general positive statement for yourself,
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  Speaker 1: the universe will figure out how to benefest that how
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  Speaker 1: to bring that about in your life. So things could
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  Speaker 1: happen that you wouldn't expect at all, but they will
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  Speaker 1: happen if you think of doing your positive affirmations is
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  Speaker 1: like planting a seed in the ground. It's not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: true at the moment, but it is something you want
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  Speaker 1: to have be true. So you put the seed in,
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  Speaker 1: and you plant a seed and you expect it to grow,
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  Speaker 1: or you maybe plant three seeds just in case you
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  Speaker 1: expect them to grow, and you don't wait two days
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  Speaker 1: and then digging the earth and say, what's happening. What's happening?
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  Speaker 1: You expect that thing to grow because you know there's
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  Speaker 1: a law and a process and the seed will grow
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  Speaker 1: if it is in the right soil and it has
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  Speaker 1: the right amount of moisture. Making it really a habit
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  Speaker 1: and doing it every day, doing something every morning when
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  Speaker 1: you wake up, that's a really good time. And another
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  Speaker 1: good time is when you go to sleep at night.
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  Speaker 2: If you still have a habit that you haven't released,
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  Speaker 2: ask yourself how it serves you. What do you get
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  Speaker 2: out of it? If you can't get an answer, ask
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  Speaker 2: in a different way. If I no longer had this habit,
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  Speaker 2: what would happen very often the answer is my life
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  Speaker 2: would be better. So it comes back to the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we believe we don't deserve a better life in
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  Speaker 2: some way. Ordering from the cosmic kitchen. When you first
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  Speaker 2: say an affirmation, it may not seem true, but remember
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  Speaker 2: affirmations are like planting seeds in the ground. When you
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  Speaker 2: put a seed in the ground, you don't get a
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  Speaker 2: full grown plant the next day. We need to be
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  Speaker 2: patient during the growing season as you continue to say
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  Speaker 2: the affirmation. Either you will be ready to release whatever
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  Speaker 2: you don't want and the affirmation will become true, or
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  Speaker 2: it will open a new avenue to you, or you
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  Speaker 2: may get a brilliant brainstorm, or a friend may call
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  Speaker 2: you and say, have you tried this? You will be
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  Speaker 2: led to the next step that will help you keep
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  Speaker 2: your affirmations in the present tense. You can sing them
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  Speaker 2: and make a jingle out of them so that they
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  Speaker 2: repeat over and over in your head. Remember that you
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  Speaker 2: cannot affect a specific person's actions with your affirmations. To
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  Speaker 2: affirm that John is now in love with me is
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  Speaker 2: a form of manipulation, and it is trying to have
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  Speaker 2: control over another person's life. It will usually have a
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  Speaker 2: boomerang effect on you. You will become very unhappy when
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  Speaker 2: you don't get what you want. You can say I
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  Speaker 2: am now loved by a wonderful man who is, and
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  Speaker 2: list the qualities that you want in the relationship. That way,
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  Speaker 2: you allow the power within you to bring to you
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  Speaker 2: the perfect person to fill that bill, who may possibly
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  Speaker 2: be John. You don't know what another person's spiritual lesson is,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't have a right to interfere in their
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  Speaker 2: life process. You certainly wouldn't want some one else doing
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  Speaker 2: it to you. If some one is ill, bless them
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  Speaker 2: and send them love and peace, but don't demand that
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  Speaker 2: they get well. I like to think of doing affirmations
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  Speaker 2: as placing our order in the cosmic kitchen. If you
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  Speaker 2: go to a restaurant and the waiter or waitress comes
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  Speaker 2: and takes your order, you don't follow them into the
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  Speaker 2: kitchen to see if the chef got the order or
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  Speaker 2: how he's going to prepare the food. You sit and
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  Speaker 2: drink water or coffee or tea, or you talk to
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  Speaker 2: your friend and maybe eat your role. You assume that
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  Speaker 2: your food is being prepared and will be out when
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  Speaker 2: it's ready. It's the same when we begin to do affirmations.
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  Speaker 2: When we put our order into the cosmic kitchen, the
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  Speaker 2: great chef, our higher power, is working on it. So
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  Speaker 2: you go on with your life and know that it
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  Speaker 2: is being taken care of. It's on order. It's happening now.
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  Speaker 2: If the food comes out and it isn't exactly what
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  Speaker 2: you ordered, and if you have self esteem, you will
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  Speaker 2: send it back. If not, you will eat it. You
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  Speaker 2: also have a right to do that with the cosmic kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't get exactly what you want, you can say, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's not quite it. This is what I want. Perhaps
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  Speaker 2: you weren't clear in your ordering. The idea here too
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  Speaker 2: is to let go. At the end of my treatments
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  Speaker 2: and meditations, I use the words and so it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's a way of saying, Higher Power, it's in your
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  Speaker 2: hands now, I release it to you.