Citrus fruits may help women reduce the risk of stroke: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/242100.php

Our moods affected by even mild dehydration : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241890.php

Low levels of omega 3 fatty acids may cause memory problems: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120227162549.htm

Cardiologist says love and chocolate may be good for the heart : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120213153957.htm

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Posted by Ani Richardson

The last few days have been challenging.  Extreme fatigue in my fingers, toes, joints, muscles, behind my eyes and in my brain.  Pain.  Lupus is challenging me, yet at the same time I love my lupus, she has taught me so much.  I’ve read lots about healing and psychology, I’ve had psychotherapy, as a nutritionist with a masters in nutritional medicine I eat well, I walk daily….yet something is still blocking me and suddenly I feel determined to just ACT and step-up the healing, really love myself like I would do my best friend.  It’s time.

I am 33, my husband is 31 – I want to live my life.  Pain I can handle, pain is just pain after all.  What I am finding a challenge is the fatigue, the extreme tiredness that permeates every part of my being.  There is so SO much that I want to do, so much life to live yet this fatigue is debilitating.  To be honest I reached a rock bottom where I thought i’d rather not be here if I have to live with this fatigue.  I also realised that I have done a lot to understand my feelings but I am still not loving myself enough, I am still criticising myself and putting other peoples needs above my own.

So I have decided to take time to put 100% of my effort into my healing.  At the moment this means I am going to invest in some regular massage treatments, I have booked to have some hypnotherapy and I have invested in some 100% natural beauty treatments as well as looking into reflexology and acupuncture.  I will continue with my nutrition treatments and my walking.

This afternoon I am going to be having a call with a Mexican doctor from Sanoviv Medical Institute http://www.sanoviv.com/ to see if they think they can help me.  They are at the cutting edge of medical and holistic treatment.  If they think they can increase my energy levels to at least 60% more than they are now then I will consider taking the trip.

Right now I am slightly concerned that I have not earned any more for the last year.  The business I set up www.nurtureiwthlove.com is so far not bringing in any money even though it is steeped in my love and passion (I am finding this quite upsetting).  However, my healing is surely worth my finance and my effort?

I plan to document my healing journey here.  Already I feel a flutter of happiness and hope – just deciding to really ‘go for it’ with my healing is such a beautiful and positive feeling.  For the first time in my life I really do feel that ‘I AM WORTH IT’

Namaste

Ani xx

YES, every fibre of my being needs to find home – today I began to find it, I took a bath at 3pm, I allowed myself that pleasure and I noticed the guilt come up.  I needed it.  My body aches so badly and I am beyond tired.  This lupus thing is really challenging me right now.  High fevers, limbs that feel like lead, throbbing, ‘brain-fog’.  I am learning so much.  This tiredness is difficult to carry.  I need to find my home again. I have gotten lost somewhere along the line.  Although this IAM part of me is love there is a part of this earthly ego that is terrified of this body right now.  So I pray, I meditate, I walk, I have started to rest more but I am worried and anxious too about so many things like finances.  I am willing to change.  I am filling myself as best I can.  I am willing to learn to love myself

May you be filled with lovingkindness

May you be well

May you be peaceful and at ease

May you be happy

Sending love to you all x

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Self Love

Glenn Moore, www.mooredynamicprosperity.co.uk, is a self-love and prosperity coach. He is accredited as a Coach by the Institute of Leadership and Management, having been awarded a Distinction in his accreditation programme. He is a certified trainer of NLP and an Insight Leadership Graduate. Glenn is an intuitive and passionate coach and I am deeply grateful to him for writing the following piece about self-love:
There is tremendous value in self-love.

Love is the energy which fills our heart and soul, and much more! It’s the essence of all that is. Learning to love yourself is learning to connect with your true self.

Many of us think of the love we experience as being outside of ourselves, but it really comes from within. Ultimately, you are the source of your love. This is the love that you feel, that makes you happy. As Don Miguel Ruiz says:
“The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy.
What will make you happy is the love coming out of you.”

To love yourself, you must accept yourself, as you are, exactly as you are; warts and all, so to speak, the whole package. As Bruno Mars sings: “you are perfect, just the way you are…” Accept it. Believe it.

Accepting yourself as you are means accepting not only the you that is successful, popular, wealthy and happy but also the you that is afraid, angry, impatient, insecure, vulnerable and anything else you might not like about yourself. It means accepting yourself whatever others may say, or believe or do to you.

Self-love is total acceptance. It requires patience, tolerance, kindness and compassion. It requires trust, honesty, gratitude and forgiveness. It’s being kind to yourself, being grateful for who you are. It is to appreciate yourself. When you appreciate yourself, you increase your value and thereby your self-esteem. What is appreciated increases, like wealth or money.

When you love yourself, you are true to yourself. You are authentic. You put your needs first. Remember the oxygen-mask principle: you place your own oxygen mask on before helping others with theirs. This is not selfish. It’s self-centred. As Michael Brown says, “the most loving person in the world is the person who is self-centred.”
Self-love means releasing the need or urge to control or manage everything around you, as if you were in charge of the whole Universe.

You’re not!

It means monitoring your thoughts, your self-talk, eliminating all ‘self flagellation’, as I call it – that is beating yourself up mentally and emotionally, telling yourself that you ‘should’ be this or you ‘should’ be that, or you ‘should’ have done this or you ‘should’ have done that. Stop ‘shoulding’ on yourself. Next time you catch yourself, stop! How does that ‘should’ make you feel? If it doesn’t make you feel good, why say it??

Stop judging or criticising yourself. The Universe does not judge. It was Mother Theresa who said: “if you judge others, you can’t love them”. That goes for you too! So if you judge yourself, you can’t love yourself!

A wonderful thing that I have observed from my coaching clients is that when they stop judging themselves, they notice that others – their friends, family and colleagues – have stopped judging them too! Better yet, they stop thinking that others judge them. In other words, when you stop judging yourself, you won’t even think that others judge you!

The need for approval – which is really another form of self-judgment – is another barrier to break through, and you can break through it! Focus on who you are and what you want, not what others want from you. When you love yourself, you don’t need anyone’s approval. Your approval cup is full!

To set the ball rolling, decide that you are going to love yourself. That’s it. You just decide. You set the intention. This is because you create your reality with your intentions.

Next, focus on accepting yourself as you are right now. Monitor your thoughts. Change your thoughts about yourself, and also what you say about yourself to others. Change from judgmental to loving, and from critical to compassionate, and from negative to positive.

Think about love! To think about love is to see through the eyes of love, to be inspired and uplifted by love.
Talk about love! To speak of love is to share love by your words which encourages others to do so. Include the word love in every conversation you have – it doesn’t matter how. Just do it as Nike would say! The aim is to maintain your focus on love. Just by focussing on love, you bring it more and more into your consciousness, bringing yourself ever closer to the love you want for yourself.

Read about love! To read about love is to stay focussed and attentive to love. Whenever you come across the word love online, or in a book or magazine, read it out aloud, or highlight it, or underline it. Love, like the music August Rush refers to in the film of that name, is all around us. All you have to do is look! And listen! And feel it.

Listen to love songs. And ask yourself every morning: “how can I love myself more today?

Compliment others. Complimenting is another form of expressing love and appreciation. I won’t go into an explanation here but when you compliment others, you also compliment yourself. Trust me on this. Or, if you don’t believe it, try it anyway. Notice how good you feel when you compliment others!

Repeating affirmations can help. For example, affirm to yourself: “I love myself”, or “I love you!”. Give it energy when you say it. Say it like you really mean it!

If, at first, you do not feel entirely comfortable with the word ‘love’ in your affirmation, say “I like myself”. But still remember to keep love in your thoughts and conversations.

Affirmations do not work for everyone all of the time but one way to increase the odds is to say them out aloud in front of the mirror, looking yourself straight in the eye! Do this regularly and for at least 5 minutes.

We are all moving into a place of self-love, I believe, as part of our evolution, part of our growth and maturation. When you work and focus on your own self-love, you are not just helping yourself, you are helping everyone around you to raise their own vibration, their love frequency. What they see in you, they will see in themselves.

The value of self-love is infinite. Everyone has his or her own unique experience. You could feel a greater sense of lightness and joy, a greater connection with others, a genuine well-being. Your confidence can soar, as can your courage. Your body could really benefit. It thrives on the energy of love. Genuine feelings of love and appreciation give the body a positive message that boosts and sustains health. Some say that all healing starts with love. For me, self-love is the most empowering feel-good you can have.

Above all, when you love yourself, you inspire and empower others to love themselves. Love inspires more love. It could be the greatest gift you ever give to the world…

February 2012

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But You know that deep down I am always with You,

Locked in Your heart,

Attached by an unbreakable, unseen bond.

We are never apart,

For an eternity we are One.

Namaste, with lovingkindness

xx

I have started PAUSING – when I feel anything, discomfort, pain, joy….pausing, feeling it, allowing the sensations to come up.  From this place of pause I can make more loving choices.  Again I have been connecting to that place of non-duality, non labeling.  Not seeing things as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ but simply as what they are, experiences.

The Upanishads say “The Self is all-pervading, hence It is that which is still and that which travels, that which is active and that which is inactive.  It is both stationary and moving, and It is the basis of all forms of existence, therefore whatever exists in the universe, whether joy or joylessness, pleasure or pain, must spring from It.  Who is better able to know God than I myself, since He resides in my heart and is the very essence of my being?  Such should be the attitude of one who is seeking”

Yes, yes, I long for You so deeply.  I want to remember You always yet each day I allow the world to enter my heart more than I allow You in.  How ridiculous I am.  You are in me yet I cover You with the crud of this unreal world.  Each day I make an effort to dig out the rubble and get back to the source and each day I seem to allow more rubble to fall in.  Yet I cannot stop.  Knowing You is my burning passion and need.  I am on my knees clawing with my fingers to get to You yet I make mistake after mistake.  I am tired.  If I lay here a while and open my heart I know You will show Your face to me.  I let go of the struggle and allow what is to be.  No dualistic struggle, no labeling, I let go and experience, I keep opening myself wide to You.

Yesterday I was sent an email with details of a free online class with Dr Jean Houston: The 3 Keys To Discovering and Living Your True Purpose.  You can sign up for the class here: http://evolvingwisdom.com/jeanhouston/yourlifepurpose/free-online-class it is taking place on 15th January, but if you sign up you can listen to it via a download if you can’t make the live class.

Happy Listening!

 
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing” Helen Keller

At the moment I have the urge to be outrageously bold with my life. No fear, no regret. Living my best life seems to be a priority. Asking myself “what would love do?” helps. Smiling, even through the pain, helps. Self-love needs to be a priority ‘Om Namah Shivaya’ ‘I honour the Divinity that resides within me’