I Love Myself

Love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. As if your life depended upon it. Once you get going it's not hard to do.

Although it may sound selfish, respecting our times and treating ourselves with love and respect guarantees that we have enough clarity and peace to relate to others, to bring calm into any situation we encounter.

I met Kamal in San Francisco last year.  He was going through the ordeal of a debilitating disease, I was just recovering from Lyme disease.  We both had come into Chinese Medicine as the answer to healing (together with yoga for me) and the conversation was intense.

When you feel the portal of death lurking nearby you get real. Very real.  You notice what is important and what is not, you get epiphanies, you understand priorities, and the miracle that is your life, this chance to being here now. To be alive.

Kamal, from his Facebook page

He is an entrepreneur in San Francisco, a Sillicon Valley "cool" yet grounded business man.  Someone you would not perhaps expect to talk about love.

Yet, when confronted with a speaking engagement in front of CEOs and mega heads of business that is what he did.  He spoke his truth, what he felt, how he went from being on the floor to recovering his sanity and his health.

Love yourself is a small book.  I read it in less than an hour.  But the message sticks with me.  Now-a-days, when I practice asanas in the morning, if I see myself drifting into mind-games of "This pose will never come" or whatever the mind may shoot, I think "I love myself, I love myself"

I have found that it only seems silly when we do not believe it to be true.  When we actually do not love ourselves.

The book cover, when I saw it made me stop and wonder for a moment.  But upon a second look I realize how on "target" it is. Our minds play wars within us, our minds need to quiet down so we can focus on our hearts.  Love is imperative.

Read the first pages here.