LOVE AS 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 loving oneself 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 reaches beyond 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 , towards 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'll 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 from others, but love from oneself to oneself—then we become love. Love is not a fairy tale. It allows us to love what is beautiful, but especially what is not. It is the most powerful force in the world, the key to eternity.
Love, when we show it to ourselves, automatically spreads to others. By caring for ourselves, we radiate love to our surroundings and can naturally guide others.
THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING YOURSELF
But the opposite is not love.
If we skip the first step, if we want to receive love from others first, if we seek to guide them first, we lose ourselves and we lose others.
Love for oneself, of oneself and by oneself is the only gateway to a grounded being.
Let's love ourselves, and the rest will follow. That's the most important thing: to love ourselves as we would like to be loved. That unconditional love that we sometimes expect from others. They are rarely capable of it because we ourselves don't yet know how to do it.
INTEGRATE LOVE INTO EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES
Let us love ourselves for wanting to do the best for ourselves, for choosing what is good for us and for making mistakes when something has been tried for us.
Let's make sure our intentions are noble, come from our hearts, and make us vibrate, like an arrow in a compass. And if, despite this, things don't go well, love yourself even more to transmute everything.
It's time to love ourselves in all parts of ourselves: in the way we eat breakfast, in the way we say hello, in the way we dress, in the way we fall asleep, in the way we exercise...
THE SOURCE OF LOVE
Where is its source? Love is everywhere, but above all, it should be within. Deep within our hearts, there is a part that is connected like a spine to all our spiritual bodies, to infinity...
This is where we download true love. It's an infinite source, available at every moment and incredibly powerful. When we're not used to it, we may initially feel that it might seem artificial, a figment of our imagination. But by making this effort, we end up connecting to the right place inside us, and then there's no longer any doubt, it appears so pure.
So little by little, with each daily effort, it ends up integrating everywhere.
LOVE AS PROTECTION
When we vibrate love from our hearts, 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 when we are in a difficult situation, through love we transmute the situation.
Even in my relationships with others when I vibrate love, I no longer perceive aggression but compassion. I am no longer the subject, I become simply a witness.
Love becomes my shield.
LOVE LIFE IN ITS WHOLE ENTIRETY
Through love, I finally see. I then love others, the trees, the 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 meeting from you to you.
PRAYER OF LOVE
Let love be integrated into every particle of my being. Whether I am love or radiate it, these vibrations enchant the world and all dimensions. I welcome the highest possible vibrations of love and light into me now.
In this state, I can only marvel at an embodied beingness and a 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 more than just a concept; it's a path to fulfillment. Through your wisdom, we learn to integrate this love, which informs our practice and our daily lives.
Chloe's Bio
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Chloé LESAGE
Leadership Coach and Project Facilitator
"A warrior at heart, that's often the conclusion I receive when I explain my life journey. After a difficult start on this earth, I sought inner balance and expansion through a 15-year journey of personal development where I tested all conventional and atypical practices.Since we never stop learning, I continually feed my thirst for understanding. High intellectual and emotional potential, I learned to put my abilities at the service of life so that it becomes a gift.
My method is at the junction between who I am, the reappropriation of my 2-year training in personal development coaching as well as all my life experiences.
It is a practice that puts into experience and intervenes, all at the same time, on the body, the emotions and the spiritual dimension. For me, it is out of the question to accompany for years what would cause, in my opinion, dependence. However, my work is to create the conditions for reappropriation of one's inner power to obtain immediate results in the materialization of one's objectives.
More information about his professional career
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