Loving ourselves

Everyone talks about how important it is to love yourself, but what exactly does that mean? 

I was working with a woman this past week who has a large blood-filled tumor in her liver that is causing a lot of health problems for her.  She has always been a very brain-centered person and a very strong, active and "get things done" kind of person.  Her health has made her begin to refocus her life.  She was telling me that since she learned about her liver, she has started connecting with her liver - feeling into it to see how it's doing, sending love into it, doing visualizations of healing with it that seem to be more lead by what her liver needs than what her brain thinks her liver needs.  She said she really, deeply loves her liver. 

This got me thinking that in addition to loving yourself by learning to say no to people and taking time to nurture yourself, maybe the next even deeper step to truly loving yourself, is to begin to connect deeply with your body - to feel into each of your organs, your muscles, your pains and tension, and pour love into your body, and then listen to what your body needs.  

We've always been so brain-centered so we think of nurturing ourselves as feeling into and giving our minds what they need, and that is hugely important.  But I think the next, deeper step is to begin to actually deeply connect into all parts of your body - listen to what is has to say and send love into it.

If you have ways that you already do this, I would love to post suggestions for people.  Also, if you have any questions about how to do this or a specific concern about your own body, send me those also.  I would love to answer any questions you have.