I Love Myself…

Something hit me – dropping into my consciousness – on the way back from taking my grandson to school this morning.

I realized that when I have spoken recently about “emotional brutality” I was mistaken about it in my interpretation. What I got this morning is that the only emotional brutality one can experience is that which we choose to inflict upon ourselves. No one can brutalize us emotionally unless we choose to allow it.

It is totally an inner process and by identifying the source as something outside myself, I am playing victim and I choose not to be a victim. I am totally responsible for every aspect of myself. I have known this intellectually for a long time and have espoused it as part of my philosophy on a regular basis.

But today I really got the meaning and it showed me that I am understanding consciousness in a new way and profound way.

It also means that if I feel brutalized emotionally, there is only one possible cause.

That cause is not loving myself enough and allowing myself to feel brutalized in the first place. As an extension of that understanding, it also means that when I do that it can only occur if I see myself as separate from Divine consciousness. Loving oneself fully is merely recognizing the Divine Light within and living with that awareness.

It is impossible to brutalize Divine Light emotionally. So the whole thing can only exist in my perception of it in the first place.

Kind of a biggee for me internally – although it may not seem so in my words.

I Love Myself.