Self Care tip of the week: Tenderness

Dearest Fellow Travelers, Self-Care tip of the week is an important ingredient in making lasting change, getting through this stretch on your path, and ensuring a healthy future. Tenderness. The art of Self-care requires daily doses of tenderness. Tenderness expressed outwards, gives way to the deep and lasting shifts that are occurring within. Tenderness expressed towards Self, in all ways, creates room for the rush of the waters of re-birth, opens stretches of possibility and releases the past like no-other medicine. Tenderness is a most self loving Self-care medicine. Self-care is the art of listening to your soul's voice, and taking action on what you hear. Self-care is caring for all aspects of your life and all aspects of your being. Self-care requires lavish amounts of tenderness in thought and deed. What happens when you turn a tender touch towards another? What happens when the mind stops analyzing and criticizing, judging and condemning for a moment? What happens in that moment if you apply tenderness? The moment gives way to the truth of your soul. The truth of your soul thrives in tenderness. Tenderness opens your Heart. The truth of your soul thrives in an open Heart.  We most likely have not been taught to be tender with ourselves through this life. We most likely were taught to be harsh, pushing, striving, and doing, in such a way that the tenderness that so naturally is a part of the Heart and Soul of us was masked, hidden and buried deep. Tip: Applying tenderness time after time, when our initial response may be to push, cajole, criticize, hide in shame or blame, when life's challenges arise, is also an art. The more you apply tenderness in thoughts towards self and others, the more your Soul speaks and your Heart opens. Soon, you will feel the natural impulse to be tender, loving and caring as a force of nature that will speed you to your Soul's destiny and your Hearts longings and desires. Before doing what you may automatically do, stop and apply tenderness to the situation. As the patterned thoughts of blame, shame, or defensiveness of your mind and heart start to grip, apply tenderness. Think a tender thought, remind yourself that within you is an innocent child, who thrives in tenderness, and then, go from there. Tenderness will open a new path for you. Watch the miracles of life unfold before your eyes this week. In tenderness. In Love, and in a peaceful flow of goodness. This is the way of the Peaceful Warrior and Heart Activist. It is the practiced are of Self-Care to enusre a blossoming life. Have a blessed week. Mary

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