We regard others with grace, acceptance, love, and encouragement, but we withhold this regard toward our own selves. We instead hold ourselves to impossible standards. We judge, we judge, we judge ourselves. So then, what does self-love look like?

Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present, and aware of ourselves and our surroundings without be reactive or overly overwhelmed by what is taking place in and around us. It is the practice of being conscious or intensely aware of the present moment, while calmly observing, acknowledging, and accepting one’s thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations without interpretation or judgment. While we all naturally possess the ability to be mindful, it becomes a much more natural state when we practice it on a daily basis.

If you think about our purpose—to work out concepts in the mind until we come to a place of complete peace brought by understanding, called enlightenment—it makes great sense that we would be given a playground that plays out the events within our minds on a grand stage for us to see . . .

We must begin to shift and change our consciousness, knowing that the world is going to begin to provide a different reflection. As collective creators on this planet we must attend to our own frequency. We need to attend to our own relationship with love, with health, with creativity . . .