Why Don’t You Respect Yourself?

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About this meditation

Theme

“When you lose sight of your own value and become focused only on the external world, use this meditation to reconnect with the precious beauty and peace within.”

Benefits

This guided meditation helps you reconnect with a deeper sense of self-respect by turning your attention away from the external world and toward the peace and precious beauty within. It invites you to remember your true nature as a soul and recognize yourself as something deeply valuable and precious.

As you rest in the light of peace, you can reconnect with the power to love, transform your external environments with pure thoughts, and carry a deeper awareness of your own value into the physical world. This awareness can change the way you see yourself, nature, and the world around you.

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How you want to feel

For Love For Soul Awareness For Happiness For Power

Themes

Self Worth & Identity Self Worth Silent Strength

Life stages

Students & Youth Young Adults Middle Age

Commentary

I prepare to meditate on respect. And there are many types of respect. I can respect the natural world around me. I can respect other people. But for right now, I'm going to focus on respecting myself.

At the core of any type of respect is a vision of love. When I truly respect something, I care about it deeply. And at the depths of this care, there is the feeling that that thing that I care for is absolutely precious and valuable.

Too often, I think of myself as just mundane. I am a mundane physical being, and I think only of my external world. But I take a few moments to go inside myself and sense the spirit, the essence of peace within my physical body. This soul dwells in the center of the forehead, and I relax and let go into a stillness that is untouched by anything of the external world.

In my mind, I travel beyond the physical to a dimension of silence, a place beyond even the sound of a thought, where it is truly as if I am bathing in the light of peace. This is the home of the soul. When I take my mind here, I can let go of the external and experience the precious beauty of my internal world.

I let go into that peace, and I allow waves of this still light to bathe my entire being. In this peace, it's easy to see that I am only an actor playing roles. I take many costumes and bodies, and I travel through the physical dimension, but my true nature is a soul, a spark of light.

I am a traveler through time, and within me are enormous powers that I have forgotten. The power to love. The power to transform my external environments with pure thoughts. I am an enormously powerful being of light, a child of the Supreme Being.

When I remember how precious I truly am, then I can carry this awareness in the physical world. And instead of being a mundane world, the world becomes a magical place to live. And this respect for myself changes my interaction with nature and the world around me.

To truly respect myself and anything else, I only need to develop the eyes to see how precious I truly am.

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