Simple Self Love Exercise / Spell
This is from Teal Swan’s book “Shadows Before The Dawn”, which I found really helpful.
Self Love?
Self love is simply loving yourself, without judgement and without the harsh inner critic getting in the way. You love yourself the same way you do a best friend or a lover. Self love sounds very simple but can be very difficult for people will low self-esteem, depression, and other mental illnesses. Unfortunately, many of us have grown up to believe loving yourself as a “selfish”, therefore “bad” thing. The truth is If you can practice self love, you are closer to the road of being happier.
What do you need?
A glass of water, or a healthy drink.
Concentration.
Love towards anything or anyone.
How does it work?
People will often say, “Just love yourself!” As if it’s as easy as turning on a light switch. Just because something is simple doesn’t make it easy. This exercise makes you focus on external factors, people, objects, animals and anything else that you love. Self love is often judged as “selfish”, which is part of the reason why it’s so difficult, but no one would call it selfish to love your family, friends, cat, dog, whatever! You take that love for things other than yourself and then you consume it! This forces the love you feel towards others into you and it grows inside of you.
Okay, how do you do it?
You stare at a glass of water, or healthy liquid of your choice and focus on the people or pets or anything that you love. You can even speak out their names to the drink. Get really into it and feed as much love into that cup as possible. You might start vibrating or tearing up a little. That’s good! Really believe that you are holding the essence of your loved ones in your hand. The next thing to do is gulp down as much as the drink as possible when you feel that you are at the peak of your belief. You should start feel the effects of self love instantly!
Repeat this process as often as you like or when needed.
Good luck!
