What's on your Loving Kindness List?

"A correct relationship to your self is primary, for from it flow all possible right relationships with others and with the Divine".  The Book of Runes.

This week I picked up my Relationship Runes by Ralph Blum and Bronwen Jones.  I haven't connected with them in quite a few years and I was drawn to pull them off the shelf.

I sat for 10 minutes holding all 25 runes between my palms I just closed my eyes and asked for guidance.  These past few months I have been holding on too much - trying to do everything all at once with my creative healing business and while I'm doing that, I'm losing sight of myself.  

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Then when I picked the Rune "Mannaz", meaning Loving Kindness. 

I knew that I was telling myself something. 

Am I forgetting that I need to look after my self first? 

For starters, letting go of the critical and unkind voice that pops up if I spend time doing something not related to my business. 

Forgiving myself for making mistakes.

The Runes tell me that loving kindness begins at home {obviously I know that but sometimes we need a little nudge of a reminder don't we?} so instead of being intent on changing or becoming a better person, showing loving kindness for myself is about befriending who I am already!

"Ok, I'm listening,"  I say to myself.

I need to truly learn to be gentle and honest with myself, with loving kindness.  

Self love is not being Selfish (which really just means Self-ish} Often we hear that talked about in the wrong context.

So, for me, what do I mean by self love? 

1. Eating nourishing plant based foods instead of turning to biscuits, crisps & chocolates.
 
2. Taking 30 minutes every day to hoop.

3. Having a monthly Reiki/Reflexology/Massage/Shiatsu session.

4. Taking the time to blow dry my hair properly.

5. Sketching Every Day/Writing Every Day/Painting Happy*

6. Allowing myself to feel sensual.

7. Spending time trying on clothes in the shops in stead of a quick one two three (or even not going at all).

8. Really creating a vision of what clothes I want rather than just buying any old thing.

9. Making the effort with what I'm wearing when I'm working from home.

10.Watching movies that really make me smile and laugh. I'm a huge fan of Disney movies from my childhood. 

It really does all start with us first, doesn't it? 

As we learn to love ourselves, we also then beam out love to those around us.

The Rune of Loving Kindness split in half is the rune of Celebration with it's mirror image, so it's as if the rune is telling me:- JUST ENJOY YOURSELF JULIA, LOVE AND ACCEPT YOURSELF JUST AS YOU ARE AND YOU WILL BEGIN TO NOTICE CHANGES IN ALL LIFE.

We don't need Mark Darcy to tell us, do we, we need to tell it to ourselves!

What's on your Loving Kindness List?