Following is an entry in our Love Blog
by one of the participants in our Love Skills Course In Depth.

"Hi everyone,

I  wanted to share about the love skill “Receive Love Generously.”

I am a giver by nature so giving Love to others was always easy. Easy, not always comforting, but easy. I started to notice that no matter how much I gave love to others, I still felt deprived of Love. It left me hungering for more love and desperate to have the love I craved and longed for.

In short, I was miserable and if anyone were to ask me if I were happy the answer would be no, I’m not. Yet boy could I give out the Love.

Then I came upon The Love Center and the introduction into the 60 Love Skills course and found out that the one that needed to Receive Love Generously was me!

I really went into a tailspin on this one. I was loving and giving so why wasn’t I receiving love from others generously? One day, an aha! Because I wasn’t first loving myself generously. I had spent my life loving others and forgot to love me. Oh I could “say” I loved myself, but I didn’t mean it nor was I loving myself generously, well, ok, not even a little.

I actually hated myself for gaining over 100 pounds and could not bear to look into the mirror. Did I feel lovable at 245 pounds? No. Did I think that I deserved to be loved the way I wanted to be loved or even allow myself to receive love from others generously? Nope. How could anyone love me when I couldn’t love myself just as I was? But the truth was, they WERE loving me just as I was, or am. It was ME who wasn’t willing to receive the Love Generously because I felt unlovable!

I knew I had to change how I saw myself or die inside a hundred times a day if I didn’t. I started putting in to practice everyday the 60 love Skills in your book, “Love Skills for Personal & Global Transformation,” and I began with ME!

I started with every day telling myself what I appreciate about me, then I went into gratitude and thanking myself. Then I started that beautiful love skill of Practice Inner Love Talk more and more. And with each day I slowly began chipping away all my false beliefs and stayed steadfast in giving Love generously to myself, no matter what I was seeing in the mirror.

Three and a half years later, after constantly being aware of the Love Skills and using them in my daily life, I can honestly say that I love myself just as I am!!! Now I can receive Love generously from anyone who wishes to give it to me…..and you know what else? By me loving myself more , I now can “see” and feel all the love coming my way from others and I’ve realized that all along “they “ always loved me perfectly!

There is so much more, but I think I’ve bent your ear long enough!
So why not join me as a partner in Receiving Love generously? Your worth it, You deserve it!!!

Holding YOU all in Love’s Sweet Embrace."

Vicki

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