Wild Woman Journey. Self Love. Pt2

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Thankyou to everyone who is following this journey both publicly and privately, the feedback has been awesome and its great that there are so many of  you wonderful women interested in reclaming yourself.  I am enjoying connecting with you all.  This will be easier for a few of you if i could send you personal feedback on your comments, check your comment reply address is on because when I get a comment that says "no reply comment" when emailed to me, I am unable to personally email you back.

So onwards we Journey to todays topics, which is the....

Wild Woman Challenge

How do we see ourselves??
Its all very well doing this self love work on ourselves, but a big thing is how you are actually seeing yourself, what words do you use to explain the type of person you are.  Have you ever been stuck for words in a job interview when asked of your good points and heaven forbid your BAD points!  For this Wild Woman Challenge we are going to delve to the depths of our 'Personal Words'.
For sure there are some traits which cant be explained as words, we will just leave those as the bits of whimsy and magic that swirl around you. 

For this challenge you are going to need to start with about half and hour of time in silence with no distractions, no people, phones or electricals. Just a space for you.  You need a pen and two pieces of paper to write on.  And get comfy, I like to do this sitting in bed, my favorite place!  Maybe a window to look out for the blocked lost in thought moments.

The Glowing Things About You

Hold your paper in front of you and write at the top "I completely accept myself because I am...." Then close your eyes, centre yourself, by breathing in and out with awareness, its not any technical breathing, just watching how you breathe will bring you back to yourself and help seperate from the outside world for a bit.  Take about 1 min to centre.  Concentrate on the words " I AM " as you breathe.  Then open your eyes and write.  Single words or little statements about who you are!  you can write all over the page or a neat list, just try to get a whole page in there, you know you can!!

When your Glowing list is done, smile to yourself because you know its true, and put it aside.

The Dark Things About You

Now take out your other sheet and write at the top "Today I release my tendency to be....".  Sit for another 1 min breathing thinking the words "I RELEASE" and then start writing all the Dark things about yourself you would rather not have.  This is a harder list to do as sometimes our self rightness gets in the way.  The easiest way to do this list is in small explaining sentences 'stressed about money' 'a dweller on my health issues' etc, explain the behaviour.  the trick is to do you list double spaced on the way down and by the time you get to the bottom you are really into it and have opened up to how you really are, and I love to look at my bad points in a funny posotive light, it gives you the EEK!! feeling, sad but true! hehe  So once your at the bottom go back up and fill in every gap, I got 41 traits on my list, blurred for your convenience!  So dig deep, get real and stop hiding behind the perfect door.

and once again smile because you know it WAS true but now that your aware its the first part of change!

Lets Bathe In Our Beauty

So for those with beautiful hand writing YAY! (Im not one of them) you can write up your glowing list to hang up and be read every day.  But for people like me you can make up a page alah computa with cool fonts and colours.  Put those words up to affirm with yourself every day that this IS who you are.  When we want to attract something to our life we have to make sure that our actions donot contradict our desire, so by reading about how wonderful we are daily, by highlighting our good points, those points will grow in love and just get better and better and start affecting not just us but those around us too.
You outer level must not contradict you inner, lets get them in tune.
So hang your words and be proud and grow!

Letting Go Of The Darkness

One of the big questions is 'why are people still living IN darkness'?  Its a place no one wants to be but its a place so many of us dwell because it feels, comfortable, easy and somehow soothing.  "things are shit again..ohh well never mind Im used to it : ( "  Its the easy road when breaking thru and making things better can seem like such a huge task, its almost exhausting thinking about it.  here we are going to work on releasing those realities and default settings.  So with your list in hand of all the darkness you no longer NEED! (yes thats right, YOU are the one holding onto it, not anyone else), set up a special place outside.  Just a nice spot and light a few candles and be comfortable, there are going to be flames, so outside is sort of essential. 
Read your list  "Today I release my tendency to be...........

at the end thank your traits for being here and teaching you the lessons you needed to learn but now they are no longer required, you must be greatful, Im sure they have taught you a great lot and a few will be back to teach you again.  Then BURN that piece of paper and watch all your negative traits turn to ash.  Say thankyou to who ever you please, god, goddesses, angels, stars, earth.. who ever you connect with, talk about what you are doing and why, ask for help, send out your wishes, let your dreams be know, SPEAK IT! and then go rub that ash into the ground or grass so it disappears, or blow it to the winds.

Letting go is done.

Go have a cuppa, dance for joy and go to bed with a smile on your face.

Letting go ceremonies are all about your ability to LET GO so have the intentions to go with your actions.

AND RELAX.

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The Beauty In You Art Tutorial

If you did the above 'Wild Woman Challenge' you should have your list either hand written or typed out to hang on you wall.  Here Im going to make a painting out of that list to make it even more beautiful and desireable to read.

* Take your page and find a canvas it will fit on with room to paint around, i found an old one I had already stuck recycled paper to years ago.

* Trace the size of you paper in pencil so not to paint behind it, you want to keep the background as light as possible.

* Masking tape the outside edge of your paper line to keep the paint a clean edge.

* And paint!, I used rainbow colours, I wanted something bright which I couldnt help looking at, just whatever comes from your heart is whats called for here.

* Have a nice time, listening to music...tra la la

* Take off your masking tape and check that the lines match up

*dry (hairdryer for me, its winter)

*Next wet your paper  IMPORTANT! ( I printed my page on inkjet printer THEN went and colour copied it WITH CARBON so that when its wet the colours WILL NOT run, If you wet your inkjet printed paper it will turn into a rainbow itself!)  So wet your paper so that when you glue it it dosent bubble up and bulge.

* Paint a glue or medium on background for paper

*gently attach paper and brush with more medium and smooth down gently with hands.

* Voila

* Use pencil to outline a pretty design, of course I went Indian

* Paint in with any colour you choose, I like the vibrant white, it extends the paper.

* Paint layer after layer until you are happy, ohh hang on we are already happy!

Setting The Love Free

* That night at Ladies Art Night I put on my setting free decorations, I use swirls because its a releasing symbol to me, 'letting things be free, extends the light in me'.  The dots represent the lessons I have learnt along the way.  We must be grateful for them.

My Wonderful Bit Of Inspiration

So here hangs my artful expression of myself, for all to see.

Its great for others to read so they can reinforce the traits they see in you too
It also shows they are wonderful friends if they are happy with your abundance.

and a little treasure hanging there to represent the one treasure I have created that gives back to me every day, maybe not 100% joy! but she is giving me something.... laughter, frustration, love, inspiration, stress, fun, exhaustion and an extension of my life, that needs to be set free more than anything I have.

So enjoy this process, I love mine

the best self portrait I've done so far

Lets See What You Come Up With

xxx

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My Favorite Self Love Quotes

Your job is you.  Unless you fill yourself up first, you have nothing to give to anybody.

Love is a frequency.  You can see evidence of love being expressed through people, but love is a feeling, and you are the only one that can radiate and emit that feeling of love inside of you

The Secret

Claiming ourselves, the good and the bad, is healing.  It's taking responsibility, for where we were and where we're going.  Claiming ourselves makes us active participants in our lives.

All we have is here - now - us.  We are all we ever need to be - here and now.  We are, at every moment what we need to be, if only we trust revealing our true selves, our centres to one another.  Our centres each need that of another.

Karen Casey

We cannot love other people and truly love this glorious gift of life if we have forgotten how to love ourselves

If you have forgotten how to love yourself, you will probably ask or demand too much of other people

Stephanie Dowrick

The unconscious mission of people everywhere is to escape the loneliness they sense as they lose touch with the sacred soul energy of life.  Yet the answer is not to escape the loneliness but rather to embrace it by learning self love, for you shall not be lonely if you are fond of the person you are alone with.

At the core of all human loneliness is an intense and compelling craving for a coming together with one's lost self.

Christopher Hansard