Affirmation: NO REGRETS!

Honor yourself.

Honor your intuition. 

Honor your feelings. 

As the old wise saying goes; you cannot give what you do not have. True enough, when you choose to live life honoring your feelings, you choose to live life with no regrets. 

Many years ago, I lived a life full of hidden emotions.  I didn’t want anyone to know how I felt and learned to adopt a poker face so that no one could read my emotions.  I was the person everyone else turned to with their raw emotions and their problems.  I was unable to share my own.  After all, I was supposed to be the strong one for everyone else. How wrong I was.  I did not honor my own feelings! 

As a result of keeping myself tightly bound up in my cocoon of emotional protection, neither the bad feelings nor the good feelings could leak out into the outer world.  What lessons I had to learn! 

 There were several lessons for me to learn.  You see, others perceive me as striding forward confidently throughout life.  Inside myself, I was a quivering mass of jello fears, shaking that someone might discover the truth of who I truly was.  As a result I lived with plenty of regrets at not telling people in person how I honestly felt about them.  Oh I wanted to, but I was so afraid of their reaction, so much scared of rejection.  I held back and stayed in my fear cocoon.

So here are the four main lessons I learned from this year,2011.

1. Love myself enough to honor my feelings.
2. When I care for someone, to tell them I care for them. 
3. When I need a reassuring hug, I'll hug someone else so we both feel great!
4. Tell everyone I care about specifically what they mean to my world.

The last one is kinda like the warm hugs--- comforting.  If someone has done something that gives me the comfort feeling, I tell them I appreciate them for doing it.  They feel good.  I feel good.  Win-win energy to go around!  My wise grandfather used to say “You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”  Even if I receive rejections from other people, I continue to love them.  I love with no regrets.

That’s how you feed your own energy and that’s how you help to feed others positive energy.  We all need to be needed.  We all need to be appreciated.  We all need to hear that others are grateful for something we have done for them.  Therefore we need to let others know when we are grateful.  Allow yourself to experience the joy in life you so richly deserve.