Self Love Visualization:

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Self Love Visualization: Begin by imagining a beautiful nature scene. Visualize and imagine yourself as smiling, happy, joyous, loving and at peace with yourself and the world. Look around your nature scene and enjoy the colors, smells,sounds and feeling of being in harmony with nature. Next,imagine one of your favorite pets being with you in your nature scene.See the pet come up to you and give you love and affection. Then imagine that your best friend is walking toward you from the distanceand is carrying a 6 month old infant. See yourself greeting your friendand giving him a hug and talking a little bit. Your friend asks you to baby sit this infant for a couple of hours. He carefully and gently hands you the infant. See your friend leaving and promising to return within two hours. See yourself holding, rocking andgiving love to this beautiful baby. Next,realize that this infant is really the inner child within you. You have choice as to how you are going to parent this child within. You not only have a child within you, but also a parent within. You are that parent now who has a choice as to how you are going to raise this infant, that is you. The ideal is to give firmness and unconditional love. Firmness and love create a well adjusted inner child. Theother options are to be the critical or overly firm parent or thepermissive spoiling parent to yourself. If you are too critical withthis inner child, grow up feeling unworthy, incapable and unloved. Ifyou are too permissive this child will grow up spoiled and inflated.The key question is: How do you want "you" to grow up? Make this choicenow and give this firmness and unconditional love to this infant thatis you as a baby. Now imagine that five years have gone by and this little child that is you is playing in your nature scene. Again practice being this ideal parent to yourself. Talk to the child and tell it how you feel about it. Nowimagine that ten more years have passed and this child that is you isan adolescent of fifteen. Be the parent you want to be to thisteenager. Nowimagine that this adolescent has now grown to your present age. Seeyourself as you look and are now. Recognize that you are stillparenting this adult person within you. Now that this child has grownto be the adult you, have you thrown unconditional love and firmnessout the window? Makea choice right now to communicate with yourself to get back to theright relationship to yourself. Go up to yourself and give yourself abig hug, recognizing that this is, in truth, your best friend.Apologize to yourself for being so hard on yourself in the past.Forgive your parental self for its mistakes and forgive the adult childself for its mistakes. Tell yourself what kind of relationship you want to have from now on. Make achoice to love in the now and get a fresh start from this momentforward. Make a choice to look at the past as positive experiencesbecause you now choose to look at everything that happened asopportunities to grow. Give yourself approval and acceptance because you now recognize that mistakes are positive, not negative. Tell your child/adult self that you love him unconditionally from now on instead of conditionally. Tell him that you are not going to base your love on what he does but ratheron the fact that he was created by God, so of course he has value andworth regardless of mistakes or successes. Seethe consciousness, the "I," the person, the spiritual being now, as differentiated from behavior, mistakes, successes, personality,physical body, thoughts, feelings, emotions, or content of consciousness. Make a commitment to yourself from this moment forward to form this right relationship to yourself. Take time now to have a heart to heart talk with yourself to come to a placeof treating yourself spiritually and with love. Take the time now totalk out all unfinished business, unclarity, faulty thinking orincompleteness, so that when this meditation is over, there is a freshstart and rebirth in your relationship to yourself.