How do you express love?
Emotions about love and partnerships (or absence of them) occupy the thought clouds of most people for much of our time. After most of us have spent over an entire year spent either alone or in a pandemic bubble limited to very few people, those thoughts can bounce around your head to the point of distortion. It can be difficult to sift out what’s real and which thoughts are skewed through the lens of a pandemic lockdown.
For those experiencing COVID-19 life solo (myself included), we’ve had a forced monkish existence, giving us a chance to really examine how we treat ourselves. As an experiment, I’d like to invite you to reflect on how you treat yourself — are you loving? critical? impatient? judgemental?
Take a few moments to list out your best qualities and then see how those qualities manifest in your life and relationships. NOTE: Don’t list the things you don’t like about yourself. Like a tongue that seeks out the vacant spot where a tooth used to be, lingering on your “faults” only reinforces their presence.
Over the next week, do one thing each day that indulges something that makes you happy. Doing this is a form of self care that will shift your Love-O-Meter, and your life will change as a result.
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