Making Love: A Daily Routine

So many people know about the law of attraction and try to practice techniques that will help them deliberately create what they intend for their lives.  While there’s a lot of exciting success stories of people who landed their dream jobs, experienced a creative idea that led to a life-changing career, or found that special someone, there’s also a lot of information out there on what to do when you feel “stuck,” or if what you want is not happening as quickly as you intended it. There’s a term called “resistance” that used to describe this “stuck” place that many feel they’re in. It happens when we offer conflicting energies (or) vibrations about something we really want, so we end up seeing no change. 

An area that has been a challenge for me in manifesting what I desire is in the area of self-love. Intellectually, I understand its importance, yet emotionally, I find that this is the one area where I have the most resistance.  I know this as I used to be the person who couldn’t even accept a compliment without first discounting the beautiful words with something negative or even degrading towards myself.  Looking back, I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if I’d just said, “Thank you!” instead? Deep down, I think I believed that I would be judged as “selfish” or “conceited” if I agreed, as I was taught it was important to be humble.

While I now gladly accept compliments with an appreciative “Thank you!,” I still find that I sometimes engage in self-talk that is counter-productive to deliberately creating what I want for myself.  I also know that I’m not alone. One just has to listen to people talk and you hear examples all the time of people saying things about themselves that would be considered mean if they were saying them to someone else. It they are saying these terrible things about themselves publicly, just imagine what they’re saying to themselves in the privacy of their own thoughts!

So once I “got it” that my resistance centers around self-love, I purposefully went in search of more materials to study how to master self-love. Out of this study, I took an inspired action from Jeannette Maw’s “The Art of Self-Love.” I began a routine of “making love” each day as I did my bathroom routine. My routine does not involve a partner, (although that would be a good thing, too!), and it doesn’t require extra time at all, as it’s part of what one would normally do, anyway.