Feminine Super Powers: October 2011 Archives

When You Have Nothing More Left to Give...

The alarm rings and you awake
Realizing that even though you just slept the night
Your body is exhausted
Your soul is tired
And while you try to fire your engine
To zoom out of bed to meet the day
You roll out, slowly, puttering instead of zooming

Your mind feels a little cloudy
So you attempt a few of your tried and true go-tos to slough off the tired blanket that has wrapped itself around your entire being

A shower, some yoga, caffeine, the internet ... those should get you going
But yet even if they do provide a small jolt of wake up
Underneath, the tired and empty place remains
For while there is work to be done,
and people who are tugging at you for attention
The truth is...
If you took a moment out of your busy life, to look in the mirror into your eyes,
the window to your heart and soul
What you would see and hear back in response is ...
"You have nothing more left to give today."

The question is - with a busy life and many responsibilities - what do you do with that?

I'll give you a hint,
The answer is not push through
(although let's be honest that is what most of us do)

The answer is not ignore what you can feel in your bones is true
(although we've been taught to doubt our most trusted ally, our Inner Wisdom).

The answer is not to fall in a heap of despair onto the bathroom floor either because you just can't find a way to handle everything that needs handling and take care of yourself (although we have all been pushed to tears from overwhelm.)

The answer is... to open to RECEIVE.

After you stop, open and receive your self-love actions from your Inner Wisdom about what you need to RECEIVE now, post them here for us all to be inspired and for you to make the commitment and keep it!

What is it that you really want right now?

Not from your head or your ego, or what you think you should have to make you happy.

Go deeper.

To the place where real dreams,

dreams worth having and dreams that actually have the power to manifest in reality come from.

Go in to your heart.

Who already knows exactly what dream is raising its hand screaming, "Ooh! Ooh! Pick me!!"

Who already knows the first few steps you could take right now to turn it from dream to reality.

What does your heart have to say?

Can you hear her or him?

Okay, let's do this together.

Close your eyes right now.
Take a breath and put your hand on your heart and ask,

"What is the one dream I have for myself that right now is most important to me?"

What does your heart say?

And if you were to ask

"What is the one or two steps that I can take in the next three days to move towards that dream?"

What does your heart say?

And wait, one more question...

"What is the one thing that will stop me from this dream becoming real?"

What does your heart say?

Okay, just one more...

"If I didn't listen to fear but instead to the truth in my heart, what do I know?"

Whew! Great work moving past your fear into love... if you were really listening to your heart when you did this exercise, then when you asked yourself what would stop my dream from becoming real, you would have felt your heart contracting, fluttering or some kind of feeling that was BLAH! That's because fear had the microphone!

And as an ambassador of Team Love, I'm just not going to let fear win over you and smash your dream. All you have to do is take the love dare!

SELF-LOVE DARE...
Take one giant step toward your dream!

1. Write down the guidance you received in your journal, on a piece of paper, heck even a sticky note. Just somewhere you can see it.

2. Then write down, say out loud or share with a friend the one or two actions you are going to take in the next 3 days to take a giant leap toward

If you need some extra support connecting to your Inner Wisdom and her Team Love message about your dreams - you can download the video meditation I created.

For those of you that are looking to kick fear out of your love life, and haven't yet taken the self-love stand to choose ME before WE... take a swing by my book page for Choosing ME before WE, check her out, and if you are ready to really truly put the love back in your love life, starting with the love you have for you, pick yourself up a copy.

Wherever this finds you today, read this knowing that fear only has the power you provide it and at any time you have a choice ... To choose to have faith in LOVE or to choose to have faith in FEAR. I really encourage you to try on having faith in LOVE. And of course, that love starts with the love you have for yourself. Love yourself well today. You deserve it.

About Christine Arylo

Popular author of Choosing ME before WE, Every Woman's Guide to Life and Love, Christine has been called the Queen of Self-Love. Her insights, fresh perspectives and daring take on love, in all its forms, have been featured on TV and radio stations across the country, in the world's top spas and retreat centers, and in colleges and corporations. She is the founder of Madly in Love with ME, an international movement of self-love, which includes a free self-love kit downloadable at www.ChooseSelfLove.com. She is also the co-founder of Inner Mean Girl Reform School, a virtual school where women go to transform their self-sabotaging voices into self-empowering ones.