The Self-Love Experiment by Shannon Kaiser

Author:Shannon Kaiser
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Dear Suffering,

You can try to tear me down. You may try to take everything. Try if you will to break me down until there is nothing left, but I am stronger than you. I will rise. I am more courageous than my setbacks. Pain and suffering, you do not define me, nor do I need you in order to shine. You need me to validate your existence, but I don’t need you. You are no longer welcome in my life.

It’s time we part ways.

I let go of you.

I release you.

I am ready to thrive, free of worry, free of your pain.

I step fully into the light.

I release you, struggle.

I am free.

Have the courage to go deeper into your pain and struggles and release the burden of them. Can you dive deeper into your emotions and suffering? You may surprise yourself with the discovery that your suffering is no longer needed in your life. And you can release the pain for good. During my Self-Love Experiment, I looked at my struggles and released them. Now it is your turn; what struggle have you been stuck in? What part of your life is not flowing as gracefully as you wish? Can you learn to be in the process fully by addressing your struggle instead of letting it run you down?

Insecurity is part of being human. Every person on the planet has something they are insecure about—even if only slightly. Some of us are more insecure, and what I’ve learned is, the more insecure a person, the bigger their ego. Because ego is fear and insecurity in itself. I don’t mean ego as in inflated confidence; I mean the ego in our mind that projects fear-based thoughts. Ego, as in the opposite of love. So, naturally, if we want to become more secure and confident, we need to diminish our ego.

Insecurities can ruin people’s lives. Aside from leading them to addiction, self-sabotaging habits, and instabilities, insecurities prevent people from doing what they really want to do. I’ve heard coaching clients say they don’t want to pitch national TV shows until they lose fifteen pounds, or they don’t want to start dating again until they get rid of their cellulite. I always return to one powerful idea: accept what you can’t change. And each time I get to this step with a client, they say, “But I don’t want cellulite,” or “I don’t want to be overweight.” But this is confusion, and ego is still in the driver’s seat when we think this way. Because accepting what you can’t change isn’t saying, “It’s okay. I give up, I will settle.” It is saying, “I surrender to what is and invite love in.”

Surrender is the foundation for unconditional love of self.

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