Ok so this was the final day of this 3 day course and today the main topic was acts of loving yourself.
We wrote down the reverse of the acts of not loving ourselves that we were doing in our lives. We also looked at how worthiness is tied in with loving ourselves.
It was interesting to see just how much we were able to love others much easier than loving ourselves. It seems to be quite a common trait in people and it may have something to do with the high expectations we put on ourselves. For definite though a big part of it is obviously a lack of self worth. Also having resistance to receiving love is quite common because people have been hurt in the past or/and you just don't love yourself enough.
We did an exercise where we connected with a sad feeling and then visualised a dial which when we turned down would turn up the feeling of love. We practised this for a while and the aim of the exercise was to just show us that we can actually control our emotions.
We also did something in the group called an affirmation bath which I had never heard before. Basically one person lied down and the others put one hand on their bodies and for five minutes repeated loving phrases like you are worthy, you are loved, you deserve to be happy etc. It was quite an experience and felt pretty good to have other people telling you this while you were relaxing with your eyes closed. Below is an example of what happens.
At the end of the day we finished it off with a mediation which was based around loving ourselves and are worthiness.
It was a good course and helped reinforce old ideas and establish new ideas that I will be practising and integrating into my life. The main thing I got out of it was that we can choose what emotions we want and that we should focus our energy on what we want and not what we don't want.
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