Self-Love Ritual

Ritualize your experience and dive into loving YOU.

Self-love empowers us to create boundaries, prioritize our well-being and live authentically. It encourages us to trust our intuition, to embrace our strengths as well as our weaknesses.

To accept and fully fall in love with ourself.

YOUR TOOLKIT FOR THIS RITUAL

Self-Love Ritual

Step 1: Create a Sacred Space

Find a quiet and comfortable space where you can focus on yourself without distractions. Light some candles, burn incense, or play some calming music to set the mood.
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Step 2: Mindful Breathing

Sit in a comfortable position and take a few deep breaths, allowing yourself to relax and let go of any tension. Focus on your breath, inhaling deeply and exhaling slowly. This helps to center your mind and bring awareness to the present moment. For a breathing exercise for a good mood click here.

Step 3: Affirmations and Self-Reflection

Choose a few positive affirmations that resonate with you and repeat them aloud or silently. For example, "I am worthy of love and happiness" or "I am enough just as I am." Take a moment to reflect on these affirmations, allowing them to sink in and replace any negative self-talk. For an audio meditation for self worth click the link below and download.

Step 4: Self-Care Ritual

Engage in activities that promote self-care and self-love. This could include taking a warm bath, pampering yourself with skincare or body care routines, journaling about your achievements and strengths, or engaging in a hobby that brings you joy and fulfillment. The key is to focus on activities that make you feel good and nourish your soul.

Step 5: Gratitude Practice

Express gratitude for yourself and your journey. Reflect on your accomplishments, personal growth, and the love you have for yourself. Write down a few things you appreciate about yourself and your life. This practice helps to cultivate a positive mindset and reinforce self-love.

Step 6: Closing Meditation

Finish the ritual with a calming meditation for a Calm Heart. Start by sitting quietly and visualize love and acceptance flowing through your entire being. Imagine a warm, golden light surrounding you, filling you with self-love, compassion and continue with the meditation Calm Heart.

Remember, rituals are personal and can be adapted to suit your preferences. Feel free to customize this ritual and make it your own. The most important thing is to create a space for self-love and prioritize your well-being.

Good Mood Breathing Excercise

Breathe into a place of goodness within you with this breath exercise.
This is from the manual 3 Min start.

EFFECTS

Use this to release any negativity you may have toward yourself and others. Take those gloomy thoughts and literally blow them away.

HOW TO

  1. Come into your favorite seated position, with your spine straight. If you are in a chair, bring both feet flat on the floor.

  2. Cup your hands in front of you, placing right hand over left. Eyes should be almost closed, looking at your hands.

  3. Inhale through the nose, thinking of the negative thoughts and feelings, then briefly hold the breath.

  4. Powerfully exhale through the mouth, blowing the negativity out over your hands.

  5. Continue for up to three minutes. Go ahead, blow it away!

TO END

  1. Inhale and hold your breath while squeezing and tightening every muscle of your body.

  2. Exhale, relax, and enjoy the effects.

Meditation for a calm heart

Use this meditation to experience a deep sense of calm and self love.

Originally taught by Yogi Bhajan in September 1981.

Sit in an Easy Pose, with a light jalandhar bandh.

EYES: Either close the eyes or look straight ahead with the eyes 1/10th open.

MUDRA: Place the left hand on the center of the chest at the Heart Center. The palm is flat against the chest, and the fingers are parallel to the ground, pointing to the right. Make Gyan Mudra with the right hand (touch the tip of the index (upiter) finger with the tip of the thumb). Raise the right hand up to the right side as if giving a pledge. The palm faces forward, the three fingers not in Gyan Mudra point up. The elbow is relaxed near the side with the forearm perpendicular to the ground.

BREATH PATTERN & VISUALIZATION: Concentrate on the flow of the breath. Regulate each bit of the breath consciously. Inhale slowly and deeply through both nostrils. Then suspend the breath in and raise the chest. Retain it as long as possible.

Then exhale smoothly, gradually, and completely. When the breath is totally out. lock the breath out for as long as possible.

TIME: Continue this pattern of long. deep breathing for 3-31 minutes.

TO END: Inhale and exhale strongly 3 times. Relax.

COMMENTS

The proper home of the subtle force, prana, is in the lungs and heart. The left palm is placed at the natural home of prana. creating a deep stillness at that point. The right hand that throws you into action and analysis is placed in a receptive. relaxed mudra and put in the position of peace. The entire posture induces the feeling of calmness. It technically creates a still point for the prana at the Heart Center.

Emotionally, this meditation adds clear perception to your relationships with yourself and others. If you are upset at work or in a personal relationship, sit in this meditation for 3 to 15 minutes before deciding how to act. Then act with your full heart.

Physically, this meditation strengthens the lungs and heart.

This meditation is perfect for beginners. It opens awareness of the breath, and it conditions the lungs. When you hold the breath in or out for "as long as possible," you should not gasp or be under strain when you let the breath move again.

  • In a class try it for 3 minutes.

  • If you have more time, try it for three periods of 3 minutes each, with one minute rest between them, for a total of Il minutes.

  • For an advanced practice of concentration and rejuvenation, build the meditation up to 31 minutes.