Do you tell yourself the truth when it comes to yourself?

Do you respect and esteem yourself daily?

Do you pray for yourself daily?

How do you FEEL deep inside when you read those 3 questions? Did it make you smile or did you get a little nervous or feel some tension, like you were breaking a rule or something?

What if I asked these questions instead?

Do you tell others the truth to others when you interact with them?

Do you respect and esteem others regularly?

Do you pray for others regularly?

What did you FEEL deep inside when you read these 3 questions?

Which one did you feel more comfortable with or less resistant too?

As you pay attention to your personal reaction that these questions create in yourself, do you become curious and want to dig deeper? Or do you want to stop reading this (avoid it), or do you feel like protesting with something like, “we must serve others and value them more than ourselves because that’s what my religion teaches”.

Now, please don’t misconstrue me here; we are to help others and to be of service in areas that God asks of us. However, remember God’s command of “Love thy neighbor as thy self”. We most often hear “love thy neighbor”. The reality is that we really cannot love our neighbor that well unless we also love ourselves. I’m not talking or promoting the ego-driven, true selfishness, manipulative “my way or the highway” energy but rather of deeply caring for ourselves, our health, our intuition, our closest relationships, stewarding our Divine callings, and filling our own hearts with joy, happiness, and deep connection with God so that we can show others how it can be possible for them too.

This brings us back to “are you telling yourself the truth about yourself?” This is not meant to make you feel “less than”, or criticized, or put one more thing on your “to-do list” to “fix” in yourself. Rather it is meant for an introspective moment that gives rise to a greater awareness of alignment with the Divine. If we ask ourselves this question and take time to be honest with ourselves and God, it will help us move to a higher level across our entire lives.

If you tell yourself the truth about your health ( or any area of your life), you can then identify what you would actually like it to be instead of how it is right now. For example, if you struggle with sleep or insomnia, that has a massive effect on all of your life. How would your ideal rest and sleep look? You can then see the gap between what you have and where your ideal is. Next, you can begin to ask your intuition and God how do we improve this? If your mind starts racing as soon as you lie down, make a note of that. Perhaps it’s time to address your sense of lack of control or needing to have the perfect answer to things so you don’t disappoint a difficult person in your life. Constantly running the scenarios through your mind keeps draining you because you keep creating a fantasy in your mind rather than grieve a disappointment in life. 

Maybe it’s time to release those subconscious beliefs through a Emotion/Body/Belief Code session, journaling, and prayer. Perhaps you need to stop watching news, politics, and crime shows a few hours before bed, or it could be just acknowledging that you are simply done trying to fix this in your own power. It may mean not saying “yes” to everything that people ask you to volunteer for and cover for them. It is okay to not be scheduled 100% of your day and night! Be willing to live up to the best of yourself by letting go of the "lesser" version of yourself!