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Love’s Own

Whether you celebrate traditional valentines, galantines or hanging with your homies times, today is a good day to remind yourself that you are love, loving, lovable and loves own! And because we’d prefer to celebrate than talk; talk; talk, we are going to keep this sweet and short!

I know we have been told lies on top of lies on a bed of lies but I’d like to remind you that you don’t have to have a significant other for love to know you by your first name and home address. For that, we declare that all of the lies we have been taught about love are fairytales!

Because the same way that you don’t have to ask oxygen to keep you alive, you never ever have to beg love to engulf you! Love is yours and nobody can take it away from you! Excuse us whilst we break out into our spoken word.

Love is ours.

Same-sex awesome? Love is yours!

Hetero thing thing? Love is yours!

Family what what? Love is yours!

Colleague community? Love is yours!

Bestie banquet? Love is yours! 

Self-love ownership? Love is yours!

Love is yours at your worst, Love is yours at your best and love is yours in your in-between! 

Go forth and love

And as beautiful as it is to know that Love is yours, you are also loves own! You are love and love, is you! But wait, there’s more! You don’t have to fill out a prescription or send out a notice, it just is. 

Now go out there and have a valemtimes like no other because love lives here and here is where love resides! 

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You’ve got to work it, babes!

I’m not going to judge you if you haven’t figured out this series’s theme or patterns. Instead, I’m going to embrace the fact that you haven’t read our Work log, you started your work without an affirmation, a declaration or questions to help you find those answers as found on ‘I Work Monday’ and how did you make it this far without a Work-torial?

Now I may not be judging you but she may be.

Anger

Grab a ball that you can hold in your hand and preferably one that you have a good grip on. Get a tennis ball, run it around your hands and feel it. Then write everything that you are feeling on that ball, run the ball through your hands again and feel it once more but with your feelings on it.

Next, find a wall and preferably one that has no windows on because I don’t know how angry you are to be at this point of the series. I’d hate for you to be angry all over again because you had to pay for new windows. Now release that ball from your grip with your might and feel that anger leave you.

Forgiveness

Even if you imagined the anger exercise and didn’t actually do it, it felt good right? Good cause we are going to be tapping into our minds for our forgiveness exercise. Imagine everything that you have experienced that has left you in your feelings. Collect those memories as if cleaning up slime from the floor except it’s inside of you.

Collect it all and deposit it into a balloon (you are still imagining this in your mind) fill the balloon with helium. Tie the same string that is attached to you to the balloon and cut it out. Hold the balloon that you have detached from yourself and say something that you would want to be said to you. Say it to the balloon, say it to yourself, say it to the balloon, say it to yourself, don’t say it to the balloon if you can’t say it to yourself and the let it go.

Public Service Announcement!

Disclaimer! This does not mean that you are watering down the effects that you experienced with and from the contents that you placed into the balloon. It just means that you are ready to pour that same energy that you used on the contents in the balloon and use it on yourself.

Compassion

Remember that time when you didn’t know any better and you acted from less than you were created to be? Keep that same energy and have the same compassion for your foes and mishaps. Imagine someone giving you a hug every time you acted outside of your glory and grace. Now turn around and hug everyone on your list and start with yourself and let redemption collect you in the warm and loving embrace of love because that’s who you actually are.

Happy Working!!