Do You Love Yourself?
On the courage to close your eyes and trust the inner voice until it becomes your own – and the question waiting at the end.
Closing your eyes and listening inward sounds like the easiest instruction on this site. It isn't. It takes more courage than any of the doing. Every time I sit down to receive one of these letters, there is a moment where I have to decide: do I trust the voice that begins to speak, or do I interrupt it – checking, editing, asking whether I'm just making it all up? Some days the doubt wins, and all I hear with my eyes closed is my own commentary. Or a shopping list.
This letter goes to the root of that doubt: the voice can only come into its full volume where all of you is allowed to be there – the same movement the "Being Whole" meditation walks through line by line, giving everything in you not just a right to be tolerated but the full right to exist. Trusting the inner voice, it turns out, is not a technique. It stands and falls with how you treat yourself.
And then the letter ends on a question I didn't see coming. It gave this post its title – but let it reach you at the end, where it belongs.
Dear traveler,
We know how hard it is. How much courage it takes. Simply to close your eyes – not to bury your head in the sand – but to become aware; simply to close your eyes. To breathe. To listen. And to trust the voice that speaks there, fully and completely. So much that this voice becomes your voice. And speaks through you out of deep truth. Without intention. Without expectations. Valuable simply because it is, because it is authentic. Because it speaks out of love. And that is enough.
This voice can unfold in its full volume when you recognize: this is you. In your pure essence. In full acceptance of all your aspects. Without control. Without fear. Out of deep trust.
Yes, we know how hard it is. But you also know how beautiful it is. How it is heavy and feather-light at once. There is no shortcut, but there is help. Companions on the way. Lighthouses. We are here. We accompany you. We love you. Do you love yourself?
Thank you for being here.
If something in these letters stayed with you, take it along – think about it, write your own answer, or just let it sit.
And if not today, that's okay too. There's no rush.
Until next time,
– Jan