Living internal peace and love

The first relationship any of us have is with self. You are with you all day and all night long. Is this relationship full of love, joy, happiness, appreciation? Do you connect to your body and appreciate the trillions of cells working together to give you life. It is amazing that in 3 months you are nearly all new again. Most you of the cells in your body have replaced themselves. Only when we can honor, love and cherish ourselves, can we love and cherish other living beings and our planet.

So much of the counseling work I do is having people become aware of the inner battle. All the voices from past and present which swim around in peoples minds which are often worry , stress based , or critically orientated against the person. The most important war your will every solve is the internal one. I believe all conflict between people, countries, are simple are reflection of internal warring in the human psyche that is unresolved.

So the first place to start in creating a new consciousness on this planet is with the self. I noticed when people love themselves, speak their truth and back themselves, they attract loving and kind friendships in their loves. The relationships around them reflect how they feel about themselves. I also noticed that they become more loving and accepting of others. When people have won the negotiation with the inner conflicted thoughts and they turn their feelings around they begin to allow room for love. Love is at our core. It isn’t something we have to work at. It is simple something we need to make room for by letting go of all the interference, thoughts and past memories of pain and suffering.

Much of improving our inner world is about getting conscious and aware of what our habitual thoughts and feelings are. Once we are conscious without judgment, we can begin to change what these thought patterns are. Simple because the old thoughts are loud or carry a strong emotional charge doesn’t make them true. These thoughts were mostly past down the genetic line, through your environment and moments of significant emotional impact in your life. We hold on to these negative beliefs and emotions because we believe it will protect us from being hurt again. Only to find that the hyper-vigilance and our own beliefs become the pain and problem we want to escape. So simple noticing what thoughts you are having and choosing different ones rewires the brain and your emotional centers to a new pattern. What we practice and rehearse becomes the new pattern we live by.

Marianne Love