The Importance of giving back to yourself

Sometimes is so easy to give love, attention and dedication to our families, friends and work, but what about yourself ? Do you give enough back to you?

Welcome to Healing by the Sea, I hope you enjoy reading it, as much as I do writing it.

“We are all here to experience life and to grow with our experiences, if you only have time to look outside for what is happening around you, and don't have time to look inwards to understand it, you are missing the whole experience.”

You definitely know where your Heart is located in the body, and probably know it has one of the main functions of the body, but what about the energetic importance of the Heart Centre?

The Heart chakra holds your love tank, so it is responsible for the feeling of love and kindness towards yourself and others. When our love tanks are full, we have this blissful feeling of loving, caring and being compassionated for others, but when the tank is low, we feel sad, or depleted life doesn't seems to be easy and we don't have enough energy to do things with love, it is like to became a robot, doing everything at home or at work automatic, or not even having patience with others.

How amazing would be to always keep our tanks full of love and happiness so we have enough to share with our families, friends, at work, and also with everyone around us, even those we don't really know.

Love is the highest vibration of the Universe and when we are tunned and open to that vibration we are in a blissful state without a specific reason. Well but to keep the tank full first you need to know that if you only give, one day the tank will be low or even dry, and if you are only a taker always wanting others to give you love so you can experience that feeling, you will see that the tank will be only full when you work on yourself to keep it up, if only waiting on others you will always have a low or half tank and never really enough for you.

Being able to understand that you have to find love within yourself teaches you of how important it is to love yourself first. I know we all have families, friends, work and so many relationships that expect something from us, and yes this is what life is about, sharing, caring, loving and understanding one another, but if you don't care, or don't love or understand yourself, how is it possible to do it for others?

It is important to ask what is in your happiness list, write without judgement, all that makes you feel happy, and I'm sure doing things for yourself and not only for others is as important as eating.

Some will say, but what about my kids, or my job, or my husband, they really need me, yes they certainly do, but you need yourself to have a tank full so you are able to truly share all this love and happiness with everyone around you.

That means, sometimes simply reenergising yourself in nature, or having a treatment take helps you experience something in a different way, like having a massage or someone facilitating a Reiki healing session, going to yoga, practicing meditation, taking a course, going away or just receiving a smile from someone you have never seen before and you smile back instead of looking in a different direction, being open to receive whatever it is, just open yourself to receive the blessings of life.

Only when you understand the flow of the universe and its abundance of giving and receiving you understand that you deserve to be love, to feel loved, to love others, and always love and respect yourself.

Give time to your beautiful self, and I'm sure the benefits won't just come to you, but to all those around you. Make time and priority to give love back to yourself, so you have enough to share it as well.

Life is a Love lesson, find the balance of giving and receiving.