The Greatest Valentine’s Gift
I’ve often thought about what the perfect gift for the one I love would be. In the past I thought that a dozen roses, a box of chocolates, a letter or a stuffed animal would do.
But I think I’ve found the greatest gift that we can give this Valentine’s Day.
What is it?
More Love For Ourselves.
Think about it for a minute.
How can we expect someone to love us if we don’t love ourselves?
Even worse, how can you give gifts of love and compassion to another person if you’ve never given those gifts to yourself?
By this I don’t mean going to the store and buying ourselves chocolates, a stuffed animal and a dozen roses. By this I mean finding more ways that we can honor and love the Life within us.
We can only give to another person what we’ve already found within.
From my experience, when I’m surrounded by negative people upset with the world and their lives, I don’t hear many positive words, uplifting expressions, or feel much love.
But I think we’ve all been around people who have a bright outlook on life, even if things are less than perfect. These people speak and act with kindness and love. They leave you with a feeling of inspiration and make you feel appreciated.
The love we show ourselves reflects through each thought, each action and each word we speak.
We are constantly reflecting our inner world.
Seek not love from outside yourself, instead find the abundant springs of love that surface within you.
Here are the 3 Key’s for the Greatest Valentine’s Gift of All Time:
#1 – Love The Inner Critic – Take thoughts of joy and words of love to the inner critic. This is the place within ourselves that creates fear and limits the scope of our dreams. This is the critic that tells us that we’re not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough and that we don’t deserve to be loved. We can find this inner critic in the inner courts of our own minds.
Ways to bring love to the Inner Critic:
- Remind yourself what you are good at by writing down all of your talents and gifts. Write down every single one. Look at them often.
- Write down all the ways that you can use your talents and gifts to propel you towards your dreams.
- Make a list of all the things that you’re grateful for and share them daily with your inner critic.
#2 – Love The Inner Presence – Love yourself by spending time in the quietness of your own being. Simply breathe, be, and know that you’re apart of it all. We cannot expect another person to enjoy being around us if we are unable to spend 30 minutes in the quietness of our own being.
Ways to bring love to the Inner Presence:
- Sit in a quiet place, close your eyes, and breathe. As you breathe, recognize your entire body, your heart beating, blood flowing, ears hearing and thoughts thinking, feel the Love that supports you.
- Sitting in the quietness within, recognize the Life and feel the love that went into bringing you this day.
- Bring love into your consciousness by knowing that your outlook on life colors all things. The more love within, the more love you see.
#3 – Love Your Body Temple – Love the vehicle we use in this experience of life. We do that by eating and drinking things that honor the life within. Another way to love your body temple is to exercise. If we love our body, it will love us back.
Ways to bring love to your Body Temple:
- Show love to the atoms, molecules, cells, fibers, tissues and organs within your body by eating and drinking things that are healthy.
- Show love to your body by walking, jogging, dancing, hiking, lifting and climbing. Our bodies are love in motion.
These 3 simple Keys will provide us with the greatest Valentine’s Gift of all time.
However, unlike roses, this gift of love that we give to ourselves will never die.
To finish this post up, I want to ask you guys to help hold me accountable for bringing more love out from within myself.
I spent some time last night thinking about these 3 areas mentioned above and I realized I have a lot of work to do within myself. So below I have detailed the specific things that I must do to give this incredible Valentine’s Gift to the world I love.
Jeffon’s 3 Areas of Emphasis
- I will work on loving and respecting my own inner critic. I will respect thoughts of doubt and fear, but will no longer let them consume me. I will instead focus on my hopes, dreams, unfulfilled potential, and all those things I am able to do and be apart of. Furthermore, I will embrace the truth that the inner critic is 100% my creation.
- I will work on being consciously aware of the love of each moment and further understand how my choices, actions and decisions affect and impact many. I will center myself in love and allow my actions to reflect that love I’ve found in the inner chambers of my being.
- Though I eat fairly healthy, I will honor and love my body temple even more by cutting out all unnatural sodas and juice. Also, I will no longer eat at restaurants that don’t honor the food I’m putting in my body. I will also run or work out 5 days a week minimum.
I feel that by doing these 3 things, I’ll be giving a greater gift to the people I love and world around me than all the flowers, chocolates and stuffed animals in the world could do.
I ask you to please keep me accountable to this as the weeks continue on.
Great ideas with no action, are only great ideas.
So my question to you is,
“In what ways can you use these 3 Keys to give the greatest Valentine’s Day Gift ever?”
Take some time and think about it. Feel free to share your ideas below and I’ll do my best to hold you accountable for your great ideas.
I greatly appreciate you taking time out of your day to visit Three Key Life.
Each and every one of you inspire me to become greater.
Thank you.
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