What Does It Mean to Love Yourself?
By Steve Beckow
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| Rendering of the heart portal or hridayam |
Intro to Repost 2
This is my third time posting this article because the subject is so germane, so important.
How many people know how to love themselves? A hand over there. One over there.
And yet it’s one of the most important subjects I can think of. But let me write an accompanying article – a part 2, for tomorrow – and go into the subject in more detail.
Intro to Repost 1
I was about to write the article that follows, when I saw that I’d already written it. And written it in almost the same way I was going to write it again.
Great minds think alike. Take both of mine. Please.
I’m posting it again because I consider the most urgent problem we as individuals and lightworkers face today, amidst all the chaos, is now and will always be to love ourselves.
As lightworkers, in my view, we’re here to love as we do our specific assignments. I know for myself that I’m in no condition to love others until I feel filled enough with love myself – I’m talking about real love; not what passed for it in the Third Dimension.
Sending love when I’m not “feeling it” would be like a water main that isn’t working properly and is giving only a trickle. So it’s a prerequisite, in my books, for lightworkers to know at least one way of loving ourselves, whether doing the exercise has ignited the fire yet or not.
Thus, actually knowing how to love ourselves – something I never knew or would have guessed until shown (1) – is for me of the highest priority.
What Does It Mean to Love Yourself?
December 12, 2022
https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/12/12/what-is-it-to-love-yourself/
Digger asks:
“Do you love yourself?
“What is it to love yourself?” (2)
And I’m at the back of the class, waving my hand in the air. “Ask me, teach. Ask me.”
May I? Thanks, Digger.
For me, it means something very particular.
Before I knew what love was (prior to a heart opening on March 13, 2015), if you’d have said to me, love yourself, I’d have been stumped.
I’d wonder if loving myself required doing anything. I’d approach it very logically, like preparing for summer camp. I’d make a list of things I need to do to love myself.
Change my diet. Exercise. Get more sleep.
Does loving myself require effort, push, shove, and so on? Does it require commitment? On and on I’d go, eliminating one thing after another.
Looking back, I now see that everything I was doing was only having the effect of tiring me out until I gave them all up. By then, I’d forgotten why I was doing them. (Does this process sound familiar?)
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On March 13, 2015, my heart burst open, and I actually found myself immersed in a tsunami of love, to use Linda Dillon’s term. (3) OMG. THIS is what all the saints are praising. THIS is what they’re giving up everything for.
Fast forward to the present: Even if my heart door is open much less now compared to 2015, I can still experience the love flowing up from my heart when I breathe it up.
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Stop the camera.
Love flows. (4) And the most convenient place for us to tap into its copious flow is through the door of the heart (the hridayam). On the other side, which is higher-dimensional, love flows in a river and that river itself flows to the sea – the Ocean of Love (7th Dimensional), which I’ve also been gifted to experience. (5)
OK, roll the camera again.
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I can take that love from my heart and swish it around my body and my field of awareness. Doing that has me feel tremendously revived.
I don’t want to exaggerate. I’m not somehow “saved” or “redeemed” (i.e., ascended); (6) just perceptibly restored and uplifted.
I maintain that this very process is what’s being invited when the sages say “love yourself.” Draw the love up from your own heart with your inbreath and wash yourself with it on your outbreath. I believe Mary Magdalene is offering a version of this here:
“Do you realize that this tool of Love can be wielded with utter power and abandon [Steve: on yourself], knowing that with every swipe of it, you become more whole, more entrenched in your divine nature — more whole within all your aspects, and more capable of absorbing and integrating all parts and aspects of you, multidimensionally, as well as with all aspects of Christ Consciousness/God Consciousness?” (7)
Whoa, boy! Sign me up!
But we have to actually do what she recommends.
Of course your “divine nature” is pure and innocent already.
“More whole” for me means that purity and innocence is more revealed, more uncovered, more freed from our overburden – our vasanas or core issues. (8)
Baptize yourself with this love: This is the real River Jordan.
Imagine doing this with yourself. At first you may get nothing, but each time you do it you’re priming the pump.
Thanks for asking the question, Digger.
Footnotes
(1) On the heart opening, see:
- “Submerged in Love,” March 14, 2015, in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/An-Ascension-Ethnography-5.pdf, and after.
- “Activating the Wellspring – Part 1/2,” March 14, 2015, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/03/14/activating-the-wellspring-part-1-2/.
(2) “Digger: Know Thyself,” December 11, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=340835.
(3) Linda Dillon.
(4) Cf. Archangel Michael: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you. (“Archangel Michael: Go with the Ebb and the Flow of Love,” channeled by Linda Dillon, April 3, 2014, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/04/05/archangel-michael-go-with-the-ebb-and-the-flow-of-love/.)
(5) See “Love is the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” May 6, 2014, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/05/06/love-is-the-way-the-truth-and-the-life/ . This experience and others like it must have been toned down or otherwise I’m not sure how I’d still have elected to be here.
(6) 2025: I’ve changed my mind more recently. Of course that was an Ascension experience: I ended up in the Seventh Dimension; by definition, how could the experience be otherwise than ascended?
(7) “Mary Magdalene via Fran Zepeda: You Are Pure Divine Love,” November 14, 2015, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/11/14/mary-magdalene-via-fran-zepeda-pure-divine-love/.
(8) See Vasanas: Preparing For Ascension by Clearing Old Issues at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Vasanas-Preparing-for-Ascension-R13.pdf.
