We are living in a world which is driven by fear. Leaders in many fields are waging war on whatever they feel threatens them and us. Some of these leaders are well-intentioned, some are not, but they are all focused on a war which is intended to make peace. This is a problem when you are using one energy which is the opposite of the energy you want to create.
We sometimes experience this in ourselves. We fight for peace internally when peace is the product of stopping the fighting. Think of the language you hear in the world. I am fighting to keep my weight down. I am fighting to be heard. I am fighting to get it right. We experience the same problems personally because the energy contradiction is still in place.
Let us suggest that a combination of loving acceptance of ourselves and a creative desire to re-focus a part of our lives that may not be serving us well is what is needed. When the desire to change springs from a base of love and understanding, we are truly empowering ourselves to make the changes we need to make. When we choose a simple step to begin the change and respect that step and ourselves for taking that step, then we are truly on the road to mastery.
Love, like any other energy, needs to be fed in order to be available to us when we need it. We are, of course, highly individual in the way we experience love. We would like to suggest, however, that most of us feel loved in the presence of approval. This is a step we can take on our own to fill the energy account with love. Choose any one thing in your day that you have done or felt and be approving of it. You may speak your approval to yourself and allow yourself to feel the approval you are sending to yourself. If you choose to make this a conscious habit, you can re-shape the way you consider yourself in your life. The small steps are the powerful ones.
When you begin to practice loving acceptance as well as the power of focus and feeling, you become the healer of your own life. May you be blessed in all the practices of love and peace.