Good day friend, thank you so much for joining me for your self-love meditation.

Though we are sharing this meditation during our self-love challenge in celebration of

February and Valentine's Day, I encourage you to refer back to this meditation any time

you need to recommit to love for yourself.

Please get into a position that feels comfortable for you, with your palms facing up and open

for receiving or facing down for grounding, and if you feel safe doing so, you can close

your eyes or lower your gaze so that you don't get distracted.

Let's begin by taking deep breaths, inhaling and exhaling, having lots of intention,

welcoming in stillness in this moment.

This month we have been heavily focused on love and self-love, but what does that really

mean?

How we show love to and appreciate ourselves can vary because we all need and express

love in different ways.

When you get to decide what love feels like for you, but regardless of your definition,

it must always begin with you.

Over time we can be conditioned to believe that we must perform to receive love.

We're taught that from a young age, that when we are well-behaved, we are rewarded.

When we do well in school, we are rewarded, when we follow instructions, we're rewarded.

And that's snowballs as we get older.

When we're in partnerships where we feel like we do more for other people, that's when

we feel like we're earning that love is a reward.

When we feel like we need to be fully committed to our work and owned by our work, then we

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