How Can I Nurture Myself?

How can I nurture myself?

How can I nurture myself you may be asking. Self-nurturing often gets forgotten as we attempt to fulfill everyone else’s needs. We reach out to help others wherever we can, comforting other people, helping them to feel loved, secure, safe and trouble free. But today we invite you to take some time to turn all of your attention towards yourself. Let all of your focus be upon you, your health and your wellbeing.

It is so beneficial to take some time to contemplate your needs, what do you need in order to feel happy, healthy, relaxed and calm? What do you seek for your own spiritual growth and development? And what is it that stands in the way of the fulfilment of these needs? Or perhaps you don’t even know what it is you want, what it is that will cause you to be happy?

Self-nurturing often gets forgotten as we attempt to fulfill everyone else’s needs.

Self-Nurturing with Ho’oponopono

So often it is our beliefs about ourselves that get in the way of us taking the time to nurture and care for ourselves. Beliefs that are often clouded with negativity born out of past experiences. So the greatest gift of self-nurturing that we can offer to ourselves is to cleanse and purify these old outworn beliefs, to set ourselves free and experience true freedom and liberation in order that we can love every part of our being, to see ourselves as a radiant being.

Why not begin self nurturing right now?

So why not begin right now? Start with sitting in a relaxed position and just close your eyes for a moment and very consciously let go of all thoughts and feelings. Using your creative imagination, visualise yourself sitting in a place that you really love, somewhere that feels safe, peaceful and comfortable. It might be somewhere you have been before, or somewhere in your imagination. Take the time to let all of your senses come to life and immerse yourself fully in the experience of being in this place. Imagine the smells, the taste, the texture, the colours in this most sacred place. Be fully present, awake, alive, yet fully relaxed.

And in this most relaxed space, explore your deepest yearnings in life, what is it that you truly seek? What is it that brings you great joy and happiness? If you could have anything at all in this world, what would it be? Take your time and allow yourself to envisage the life that you truly seek.

Now recognise what stands between you and the fulfilment of this vision for yourself right now. Allow to arise all of your self-doubts and self-criticism, not judging, just observing these thoughts as they rise up before you. All of those beliefs about what you can and cannot have, what you should and should not do. Recognising that it is these thoughts about yourself that are keeping you separate from the fulfilment of your greatest desire. Your dream. And right now in this moment we clean these beliefs through the sounding of the Ho’oponopono mantra:

“I’m sorry, Please forgive me, I love you, Thank you”.

The Ho’oponopono mantra is a powerful self nurturing technique.

We are cleansing and purifying all of these aspects of self that have become entrapped within negative thoughts and beliefs. These parts of yourself are not real, they are simply self-images, reflections that have been tainted, obscured in some way. You do not need to know where they have come from, just recognise that this is not who you are. Saying the words of the mantra over and over, letting the energy of the words spiral through your heart. You are sounding these words to yourself, forgiving yourself for holding on to these beliefs that have been inhibiting you, causing pain and suffering within you, perhaps causing you to neglect yourself and your own needs. Through this cleansing you have the opportunity to redeem yourself from the power and control that these self-images have had upon you.

And then allow every part of your being to experience the love, the serenity and the peace that is deep within your heart. Feel the strength the gentleness, the warmth of the caress of self-love. Let yourself be held within the arms of unconditional love. Let go, surrender, be loved.

Rebirthing like a beautiful lotus flower emerging out of the mud, all of the petals open as the spiritual sun shines through you. Opening your heart to the radiance of the spiritual sun and this warmth of radiance flows through the whole of your being, caressing every particle, until your whole body becomes radiant light. You step in to the fulfilment of your greatest heart desire.

And we express gratitude and appreciation for all that we are by saying “Thank you”.

Self Nurturing Meditations

If you would like to work with what has been outlined above as a guided meditation, try our Self-Nurturing with Ho’oponopono meditation. This guided self nurturing meditation runs for just over 30 minutes.

Here are some more self nurturing meditations to try:

Self-Nurturing with Ho’oponopono - a relaxing and transformative meditation utilising the Ho’oponopono technique to release past conditioning and expectations by integrating all aspects of our being, allowing us to open more fully to self-acceptance and self-love.

Body Scan Meditation - a meditation to nurture, restore and regenerate every cell of your being.

Inner Smile Healing Meditation - a self care meditation based on the Qigong practice of smiling into the organs and transforming the emotions associated with them for healing body, mind and emotions.

Self Care Meditation - a self nurturing meditation for all levels of our being: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.