Born to Love

“Love is what we are born with. 

Fear is what we learn. 

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. 

Meaning does not lie in things. 

Meaning lies in us.”

Excess Baggage

Removing Emotional Baggage

Before we begin to remove emotional baggage we must first define what emotional baggage is. Emotional baggage can be defined as ‘Painful memories, mistrust and hurt carried around from past sexual or emotional rejection’.

It is an image of ‘a big sack or suitcase that you carry around with you at all times… with every disappointment, trauma, and wrong that you’ve ever experienced….This image, the metaphor of emotional baggage, has penetrated our culture’.

What emotional baggage are you carrying? Well it is now time to unpack and only keep the things in you bag that will serve you and help you become a better person personally and professionally.

It is time go to throw that suitcase away and release the emotional baggage that may be holding you back. We all have had pain for some it is physical, some mental, and for some both. The events of our life that we couldn’t control can no longer be allowed to control us. What ever the painful memory is it is time to find a way to let it go for when you let it go and release your emotional baggage you can move forward. Many times we hold onto to things emotionally and we find ourselves in a rut because we have associated all these negative emotions with the situation. It is time to become an action taker and do something to remove the emotional baggage. It can be as easy as adopting a new song to help you get over the situation and remove the emotional baggage. 

Strategies for Removing Emotional Baggage

There are many ways to remove emotional baggage and it takes work, howeve ronce you peel away the emotional baggage and difuse the emotional charges you will begin to feel better and you will start to attract those that you seek to attract.

1: Make yourself the most important person and affirrm that you deserve the best. This can be done by affirmations.

2: Let go of the people that no longer serve you. This is very difficult as many of us feel an obligation to so called friends. By removing this emotional baggage and no longer seeking that person’s approval you will become stronger and confident.

3: Write down all the negative events and thoughts you associate with them and then crumple up the papper and place it in a bowl and burn it so as to remove the emotional baggage. 

4: Write Letters of Forgiveness to those that you believed wronged you. 

5: Begin a gratitude journal. 

6: Look for things that bring you joy and begin to write about them. 

7: Invest in yourself through workshops and training or on things that will bring happiness to you.

8: Surround yourself with people who are encouraging and supportive

9: Turn to spiritual teachings.

10: Commit to yourself to treat yourself with love.

Get Naked!!

I am one of the Roughly 10% of individuals sleep in the nude..... and here are some reasons to do the same.

Many benefits can be found when one sleeps with no clothes on.

1. Those who sleep in the buff tend to have better relationships. Skin to skin contact will release oxytocin, which is known as the bonding hormone. This will not only elevate happiness, but will also lower stress and reduces blood pressure.

2. Sleeping with no clothes on will reduce the likelihood of yeast infections. Wearing no clothes will allow the vaginal area to air out. Without any clothes on, the area will remain cool and dry, where with clothes on, the yeast could grow in the warm, moist conditions.

3. Wearing clothing to bed will allow the body to stay warmer, which will prevent the growth hormone from being released. The growth hormone will promote bone density, lowers the risk of heart disease, lowers the risk of diabetes, repairs tissues, builds muscles, stimulates the growth of internal organs, and stimulates the immune system. It will also help to promote a healthy weight.

4. You can have better sex since you will be ready to go and the level of oxytocin will be high.

5. Cortisol levels are decreased at night when our bodies cool. So with less clothes our bodies are cooler. If we are too hot often we will get less sleep and will wake up with high levels of cortisol. This can make a person hungrier and an individual may not only gain weight, but also have a lower libido.

6. Sleeping in the buff keeps us young. The anti-aging hormones, growth hormones, and melatonin will function properly when they are kept at a temperature of 68-70 degrees. Keeping cool will allow the body to cool down during sleep.

7. An individual can become more comfortable with their body if they sleep naked. This will allow them to be happier. You do not have to worry about bras, underwear, or anything else.

8. Your skin will get to breathe! During the day, all the skin is covered up. Sleeping naked will allow such parts to air out, and will mean a lowered risk for certain skin diseases, such as athlete’s foot.

9. You will have fewer clothes to wash. No searching for something that is comfortable to wear at night. Simply strip down and climb between the two cool sheets.

Ditch the pyjamas and crawl into bed naked tonight. Start looking and feeling better and having a better relationship with not only yourself, but your significant other as well.