Finding Self-Love through Meditation by Jana Krychtalkova
From my many years of working as a life coach, healer and meditation teacher, I know for sure there is one thing we all need more of and that’s self-love.
Sometimes I wish self-love would be one of the main subjects taught in primary schools and one that you can’t skip - a subject teachers would put as their utmost priority so we would all know how to truly love ourselves.
Self-love is simply good for everyone, as when you truly love yourself you naturally make the right choices for yourself in all areas of your life. The next logical benefit is that it’s only when you truly love yourself that you can truly love another. Life on planet Earth would look very different if the majority of people loved themselves. This is really worth pondering.
Pause for now, take a deep breath and imagine how it would feel to live in such a world…Do you want to? You can start this inner revolution by loving yourself a little bit more right now. Especially now when we are going through so many internal and/or external changes with so much unpredictability, your self-love will help you to navigate the uncharted territory more safely and confidently.
Today I want to share with you why meditation is one of the most profound tools to help us get there:
Meditating helps you get in touch with your feelings. As most of us have been brought up in a society which predominantly “lives in the head”, and so many people lose touch with their heart, with how they really feel. The meditation will bring you back to yourself, to your body, to your feelings. If you are not being loving towards yourself, you are going to feel it, and that’s a good thing!
In meditation you become more aware of your inner monologue and how you really speak to yourself “when no one can hear it.” You might be quite surprised by your inner speech, as the inner monologue often becomes so automatic that you no longer hear it. But unless you are aware of it how would you know that you speak to yourself like to your best friend or like to an enemy?
Meditation will help you to find more calm, inner peace and balance and you become more aware of any choices you make that take you away from your inner equilibrium. With time you learn to consciously withdraw from anything which robs you of these wonderful inner qualities. That is self-love in action.
As meditating takes you deeper and deeper into your heart, you’ll uncover the magnificence of your true being. Step by step you’ll reconnect to infinite beauty, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinite love and infinite possibilities within you. This too might take you by surprise, but a really good surprise! You’ll naturally start seeing yourself from a completely new fresh perspective and loving yourself more will follow naturally and organically.
As meditation helps you to understand more of your divinity and your humanity – the places within you needing to heal - you’ll start having more compassion and forgiveness for yourself. You’ll let go of comparing yourself to others, judging yourself and being harsh or hard on yourself.
Especially if you meditate in a group of kindred spirits you can also learn from others. Someone might share something you really needed to hear to understand yourself better and to love yourself more. You’ll also realise we are all in this together, there is no competition and that there its never too late to start loving yourself.
As you go deeper into your meditation practice, you’ll start reconnecting to the eternal part of yourself, to the part of you which never dies. It’s one thing to hear it as a philosophical concept and quite another thing to actually experience it and have a true insight. It will put everything in your life in the right perspective. You’ll realise that you don’t have to be perfect to love yourself, you are lovable just as you are and you don’t have to postpone this love for yourself any longer.
Jana Krychtalkova is a Loving Life Meditation teacher and Life Coach, supporting people to connect to their natural inner state of well-being and inner guidance. For more information contact Jana on: 07972 900070, jana.haniel@gmail.com, or visit: www.janalovinglife.com