Do you remember the popular Tina Turner song, “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” She sings — “who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?” To the casual music lover, this song is just an oldie but goodie, but many of us have chosen to live a life with Tina’s attitude:
Who needs love when it can mean hurt, pain, disappointment?
No matter what your relationship status might be, love is missing in many of our lives….loving ourselves. We’ve forgotten to love the very body, the very soul, the very specific creation that we are. I’ve asked myself the same question… What’s love got to do with it?
At some point I had a moment of realization. I realized it isn’t enough to exercise, it isn’t enough to eat healthy diet, it isn’t enough to build myself spiritually. What it takes is bringing them all together as I lovingly care for myself. It has to be done out of a place of loving myself as I love my neighbor. I was loving my neighbor without ever considering myself.
I learned to stop and think of how I truly felt. If I really wanted to say “yes” to this person or I just didn’t want to hurt their feelings. Maybe I felt obligated. I learned that saying “yes” to me and my needs was putting me in a position to serve others better. Not out of duty, obligation or fear, but out of love and truth.
What I know now is that when I fail to do what I was created to do I am teaching my children to fail to do what they are created to do. That pattern means they learn that love has nothing to do with it. Choosing to love myself is an example I want to set. Because when I love myself, I am better equipped to love others.
To take Tina’s words and put them into a more every-day question — If I don’t care for myself enough to put the right foods into my body, to strive for a healthy, happy, long life then who will?
So, remember… Cyndi said —
to love yourself!
Take time for yourself… body, mind and spirit!
Love has a lot to do with it… Cyndi said!
Who needs love when it can mean hurt, pain, disappointment?
No matter what your relationship status might be, love is missing in many of our lives….loving ourselves. We’ve forgotten to love the very body, the very soul, the very specific creation that we are. I’ve asked myself the same question… What’s love got to do with it?
At some point I had a moment of realization. I realized it isn’t enough to exercise, it isn’t enough to eat healthy diet, it isn’t enough to build myself spiritually. What it takes is bringing them all together as I lovingly care for myself. It has to be done out of a place of loving myself as I love my neighbor. I was loving my neighbor without ever considering myself.
I learned to stop and think of how I truly felt. If I really wanted to say “yes” to this person or I just didn’t want to hurt their feelings. Maybe I felt obligated. I learned that saying “yes” to me and my needs was putting me in a position to serve others better. Not out of duty, obligation or fear, but out of love and truth.
What I know now is that when I fail to do what I was created to do I am teaching my children to fail to do what they are created to do. That pattern means they learn that love has nothing to do with it. Choosing to love myself is an example I want to set. Because when I love myself, I am better equipped to love others.
To take Tina’s words and put them into a more every-day question — If I don’t care for myself enough to put the right foods into my body, to strive for a healthy, happy, long life then who will?
So, remember… Cyndi said —
to love yourself!
Take time for yourself… body, mind and spirit!
Love has a lot to do with it… Cyndi said!
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