If you'll love guided meditations and inspiring audio then join us at

Hayhouse radio.com forward slash podcast. You'll get free access to tools for living your best life from Hayhouse authors like

Doreen Virtue, Dr. Christian Northrop, Anthony William, James Van Prague, and more of

the world's greatest teachers in spirituality, health and wellness.

Visit HayhouseRadio.com forward slash podcast

for free access to the archives on Hey House Radio, Radio for Your Soul.

Welcome to the Hayhouse Meditations Podcast, featuring guided meditations from all your favorite Hayhouse authors.

We hear over and over again how important it is to love ourselves.

We are aware that love is the most powerful healing force there is.

And yet no matter how hard we try to love ourselves, many of us keep hitting a brick wall.

Something is in the way.

It seems impossible for us to break through. We begin to believe that we just

can't love who we are, that there must be something wrong with us, or perhaps we're not worth loving.

This frustration and anger at our own inability to do what we know is so important to us can lead to depression.

We can feel hopeless.

And yet there is an answer. There is something we can do to open the most

stubborn doorway to love. We can forgive. Forgiveness opens the doorway to love,

so that love may flow most abundantly in our life.

I have noticed that when the door to love seems to be stuck, it is usually because there

is someone or something that we are unwilling to forgive.

Yes, it may be true that in the past we have had a very unpleasant experience,

and that is so unfortunate.

...