LOVE AS A SHIELD AND INNER STRENGTH
Did you know that we can think of love as a shield: an inner journey towards peace and protection?
Like yoga, self-love is a discipline that requires introspection and presence.
Written by Chloé Lesage - November 2024
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The text encourages us to love ourselves in order to radiate this love to others, a concept similar to that of self-compassion in yoga, which nourishes interactions with the outside world.
Discover how self-love can become an essential pillar in your yoga practice, bringing balance and serenity to every moment. This post explores love as a transformative force, an energy that transcends the boundaries of body and mind to nourish every aspect of our being. By cultivating this inner love, we radiate a peace that extends far beyond the yoga mat, into life itself.
What if, starting today, you made self-love your greatest ally in your yoga journey?
"Let's take a look!
LOVE IS MY SHIELD
I wish you the best in the world. Just because you're alive, you deserve love.
Love is life.
And as long as you're alive, you deserve love. And when you're dead, you'll know long ago that love transcends all boundaries.
When we open our being to love, not love by others, but love from self to self, then we become love. Love is not a fairy tale. It enables us to love what is beautiful, but above all what is not. It is the most powerful force in the world, the key to eternity.
Love, when given to oneself, is automatically transmitted to others. By doing good for ourselves, we radiate out into our environment and can guide others naturally.
THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING YOURSELF
But the opposite is not love.
If we skip the first step, if we first want to receive love from others, if we first seek to guide them, we lose ourselves and we lose others.
Love for oneself, of oneself and by oneself is the only gateway to grounded being.
Love ourselves and the rest will come. That's the most important thing, to love ourselves as we would like to be loved. That unconditional love we sometimes expect the other person to show us. They're rarely capable of it, because we ourselves don't yet know how to do it.
INTEGRATING LOVE INTO EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES
Let's love ourselves for wanting to do what's best for us, for choosing what's right for us, and for making mistakes when we've tried something for ourselves.
Let's make sure our intentions are noble, come from our heart and make us vibrate, like the arrow in a compass. And if, despite this, things don't work out, love each other even more to transmute everything.
It's time to love every part of ourselves: the way we eat breakfast, the way we say hello, the way we dress, the way we go to sleep, the way we play sport...
THE SOURCE OF LOVE
Where is its source? Love is everywhere, but above all it should be inside. Deep in our hearts, there's a part that's connected like a spinal column to all our spiritual bodies, all the way to infinity...
This is where true love is downloaded. It's an infinite source, available at all times and insanely powerful. When we're not used to it, it can seem at first artificial, a figment of our imagination. But by making the effort, we end up connecting to the right place inside ourselves, and then there's no doubt about it, so pure does it appear.
So, little by little, with each day's efforts, it eventually became integrated everywhere.
LOVE AS PROTECTION
When we vibrate love from our heart, we are protected. This doesn't mean that nothing can happen to us. But it does mean that our vibration is so high that it attracts favorable situations, and that when we're in a difficult situation, through love we transmute the situation.
Even in my relationship with others, when I vibrate with love, I no longer perceive aggression but compassion. I'm no longer the subject, I just become a witness.
Love becomes my shield.
LOVE LIFE AS A WHOLE
Through love, I see at last. I then love others, trees, stones, the sky and the earth, because I love life.
Self-love is a path, so with all the love in the world, I wish you a beautiful encounter from you to you.
PRAYER OF LOVE
Let love integrate into every particle of my being. Whether I am love or radiate it, these vibrations enchant the world and all its dimensions. I welcome the highest possible vibrations of love and light within me, right now.
In this state, I can only marvel at embodied being and transcendent joy.
Love is my guide. Love is my shield. Love is me.
Thank you so much Chloé for this enriching and profound sharing.
Your words remind us that self-love is much more than a concept, it's a path to wholeness. Thanks to your wisdom, we learn to integrate this love, which informs our practice and our daily lives.
Chloé's bio
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Chloé LESAGE
Leadership coach and project facilitator
Warrior at heart" is often the conclusion I get when I explain my life path. After a rocky start on this earth, I sought inner balance and expansion through a 15-year personal development journey in which I tested all conventional and atypical practices.Because learning never stops, I'm constantly nourishing my thirst for understanding. As a person with high intellectual and emotional potential, I've learned to put my abilities at the service of life so that it becomes a gift.
My method is at the crossroads of who I am, the reappropriation of my 2-year training in personal development coaching and all my life experiences.
It's a practice that involves the body, the emotions and the spiritual dimension all at the same time. For me, it's out of the question to accompany someone for years on end, which would, in my opinion, lead to dependency. My job, however, is to create the conditions for reappropriating one's inner power, so as to achieve immediate results in materializing one's objectives.
Find out more about his career
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