π‘Šβ„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘π‘Žπ‘› π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘Žπ‘π‘ π‘’π‘›π‘π‘’ π‘œπ‘“ π‘Ž π‘™π‘œπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿ π‘‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘β„Ž 𝑒𝑠 π‘Žπ‘π‘œπ‘’π‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘™π‘œπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿ π‘‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 π‘€π‘–π‘‘β„Žπ‘–π‘›?

π‘Šβ„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘π‘Žπ‘› π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘Žπ‘π‘ π‘’π‘›π‘π‘’ π‘œπ‘“ π‘Ž π‘™π‘œπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿ π‘‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘β„Ž 𝑒𝑠 π‘Žπ‘π‘œπ‘’π‘‘ π‘‘β„Žπ‘’ π‘™π‘œπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿ π‘‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 π‘€π‘–π‘‘β„Žπ‘–π‘›?

π‘Šβ„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ π‘‘π‘œπ‘’π‘  𝑖𝑑 π‘šπ‘’π‘Žπ‘› π‘‘π‘œ 𝑏𝑒 π‘¦π‘œπ‘’π‘Ÿ π‘œπ‘€π‘› π‘π‘’π‘™π‘œπ‘£π‘’π‘‘? (𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 π‘¦π‘œπ‘’ β„Žπ‘Žπ‘£π‘’ π‘Ž π‘™π‘œπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿ)

We need each other. Connection and human touch are undeniably essential.

AND, how many of us offer the same love, care, nurturance, touch, pleasure, connection, and quality time that we share with a beloved?

Being that we live in a holographic universeβ€”that everything is one, and each part contains the wholeβ€” deeply loving and honoring ourselves projects a world that reflects lovingly back to us.

Sometimes this might not appear as the love that we β€œwant,” but is really the medicine we need, offered through tough love, that may not feel like love at all.

But is love about always getting what we want? Or is it about growth and coming home to wholeness?

Are great s ex, cuddles, and laughter what teach us the most about love and life? Or is it the reflection offered by moving through the challenging aspects of life and relating with another? A bittersweet blend of both?

Cultivating a sense of home within is our saving grace in learning to feel at home in this rapidly changing world.

When we have grasping energy for something β€œoutside” of us, we’re signaling to the universe that we don’t believe it to be a part of us, and this grasping energy naturally repels it (like the energy you feel from someone being needy).

Truly, what we long for, whatever form it takes is really just another us, a reflection, a unique manifestation of the whole that contains all the same stuff as we do. It cannot be separate.

When we integrate our desires into our sense of self and oneness, we move into deeper wholeness and come to FEEL that what we desire already lies within.

Through this, we collectively dream of a more lucid world of deeper, loving connection to self and others into existence.

I offer you a mantra that came through during quarantine, helping me to come back to my own inner well, both in the way I seek nourishment and in how I replenish:

𝐼 π‘™π‘œπ‘œπ‘˜ π‘€π‘–π‘‘β„Žπ‘œπ‘’π‘‘ and 𝐼 π‘Žπ‘š π‘Žπ‘™π‘œπ‘›π‘’; 𝐼 π‘™π‘œπ‘œπ‘˜ π‘€π‘–π‘‘β„Žπ‘–π‘› and 𝐼 π‘Žπ‘š β„Žπ‘œπ‘šπ‘’.

Relationships, Personal TransformationSureya Leonaraπ‘Ž π‘™π‘œπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿ π‘‘π‘’π‘Žπ‘β„Ž 𝑒𝑠, π‘™π‘œπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿ π‘‘β„Žπ‘Žπ‘‘ 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 π‘€π‘–π‘‘β„Žπ‘–π‘›, π‘Žπ‘π‘ π‘’π‘›π‘π‘’ π‘œπ‘“ π‘Ž π‘™π‘œπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿ, self-awareness, self-love