{"id":906,"date":"2012-11-01T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartsdesireintl.wordpress.com\/?p=906"},"modified":"2012-11-01T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:28:24","slug":"your-hearts-desire-thought-of-the-day-what-are-you-telling-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/your-hearts-desire-thought-of-the-day-what-are-you-telling-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Heart’s Desire Thought of the Day: What Are You Telling Yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Gladys Diaz<\/span><\/p>\n

\"woman<\/a><\/p>\n

There are days when I realize that I\u2019m not being very loving to myself.\u00a0 Sometimes that can mean I\u2019m not taking time to practice self-care, and, more often, it\u2019s in the form of negative self-talk.\u00a0 For someone who has committed her life to bringing love into the hearts and lives of women, I can be pretty brutal in the way that I speak to myself.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been doing some personal development sessions with a friend of mine, and the last session we did had to do with how unforgiving we can be to ourselves.\u00a0 And I see how, although I am usually a very compassionate, forgiving, and accepting person with others<\/i>, I hold myself to almost unreachable standards, and I can be really hard on myself when I don\u2019t meet those standards.<\/p>\n

So, rather than giving myself a further \u201clashing\u201d by making myself \u201cbad and wrong\u201d for not being more loving with myself, I decided to take a few moments and just write down a few affirmations that I can post on the wall right behind my computer screen (I call it my \u201cInspiration Wall,\u201d because I have positive quotes, sayings, and the pictures of the people I love most on the wall (of course, my amazing husband\u2019s picture is right in the center of the wall!).<\/p>\n

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Here are a few of the affirmations I wrote:<\/p>\n

I am beautiful, inside and out, and deserving of love, especially my own.<\/i><\/p>\n

I am intelligent, creative, and inspiring.<\/i><\/p>\n

I am divine, blessed, and anointed by God.<\/i><\/p>\n

I am generous, patient, compassionate, and forgiving.<\/i><\/p>\n

I attract love, joy, peace, and abundance simply because of who I am.<\/i><\/p>\n

I deserve rest, fun, and pleasure.<\/i><\/p>\n

I am receptive, gracious, and grateful.<\/i><\/p>\n

The love I give flows from me, because I am a source of love in this world.<\/i><\/p>\n

I am the embodiment of love, grace, wisdom, and power.<\/i><\/p>\n

I am growing, becoming, and evolving into the best version of myself.<\/i><\/p>\n

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A couple of things happened as I wrote down the statements. At times, I hesitated and wanted to revise what I wrote, because it felt like \u201ctoo much.\u201d\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to come across as vain or full of myself.\u00a0 And then I thought, \u201cWait!\u00a0 I am full of my Self!\u00a0 And this is who I am!\u201d <\/i>\u00a0So, I let go of the inner-critic and just allowed the thoughts to flow.\u00a0 And, as I read them aloud to myself, I was moved. Because, even when I\u2019m procrastinating, even when I don\u2019t honor my word, even when I allow unloving words to escape my lips, the essence <\/i>of who I am is love, grace, and compassion.\u00a0 And this is only true because I say so<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m making a promise to myself to read these affirmations to myself at least once a day.\u00a0 I know that the love I want to see in the world begins with me, and that comes from how I speak to myself.\u00a0 I can\u2019t draw from an empty well!<\/p>\n

What about you?\u00a0 What are you telling yourself?\u00a0 Are there affirmations you say or want to begin saying to yourself?\u00a0 If so, please share them below and click the box to be notified of comments on this post so that you can read other women\u2019s affirmations and we can encourage one another on this self-love journey!<\/p>\n

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Photo credit: jessamyn<\/a> via photopin.com<\/a> cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Gladys Diaz There are days when I realize that I\u2019m not being very loving to myself.\u00a0 Sometimes that can mean I\u2019m not taking time to practice self-care, and, more often, it\u2019s in the form of negative self-talk.\u00a0 For someone who has committed her life to bringing love into the hearts and lives of women, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,9,13,16,17,21,22,23],"tags":[31,32,47,63,68,70,88,90,91,92],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating-2","category-gratitude-2","category-hdi-blog","category-intimacy-2","category-love-2","category-marriage","category-relationship","category-relationship-advice","category-romance","tag-advice","tag-affirmations","tag-dating","tag-intimacy","tag-love","tag-marriage-2","tag-relationships","tag-romance-2","tag-self-care","tag-self-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartsdesireintl.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}