Let Love Be Your Guide: A Message From the Universe

Spiritual and practical guidance for the week ahead, or whenever you happen to see this 🙂

Today’s Message From the Universe invites you to let love be your guide!

Some of you will be meeting someone special, and some of you may have an opportunity to deepen one or more of your important relationships. On the other hand, some of you may also be struggling to connect or even exist in the presence of someone you love right now. Love makes the world go round, but it’s never easy, even when it’s new and amazing!

If you’ve met (or will soon meet) someone new…

This is your reminder to maintain balance with the other aspects of your life. It’s all too easy for other important things and people to fade into the background when someone new and amazing comes into your life. It’s also quite easy to neglect your own needs at this time or even allow some seemingly small boundaries to be crossed because things are so new.

Allow things to unfold naturally, but establish your boundaries – including the boundaries you should have for yourself. You may want to spend every moment with that person, but you need time to replenish your energy, and there are many things that still require your attention. It may be hard to focus on other things, so you may have to put a little extra effort into staying on track.

On the flip side of things, this new person may be triggering the part of you that is afraid to be hurt again or force you to examine how you show up in your relationships. Other people often expose the parts of us that need healing or growth. They have boundaries that make us have to learn how to communicate and participate in ways that are foreign to us. Don’t let these big feelings scare you away! Be gentle with yourself 💙

This is a great time to break out that journal or even just a notepad. Allow your feelings to gush out onto the page, then make a list of the other things that need your attention and care, including your own energetic and health needs. Once you’ve got that out, do some grounding and centering exercises, and do them frequently.

If this involves your current relationships…

Struggling or deepening, this is your reminder to let acceptance and love be your guide. When it comes to the people we love, there will always be differences and flaws that make it hard to make things work at times.

It’s natural to hope for something to change. Who knows, it may be something that will change with time and effort, but not your effort. You can support someone and plant seeds of knowledge, but it is up to them to decide if they will nurture those seeds or not. Your job is to accept this person for all that they are – or not.

Acceptance doesn’t mean that you approve of a behavior or choice that your loved one has made, only that you understand that it is what it is in this moment. They or their choices may change at some point, but what could or should be are not helpful and should not inform your choices in this matter.

People often stay with abusive partners because they hope that their partner will one day change their behavior, but on the flip side, it’s sometimes all too easy to cut someone out of your life when what you really need is just to draw your boundaries and stick by them.

It’s not always easy to determine whether you should allow someone difficult to remain in your life, but the key lies in whether or not they respect your boundaries and how they treat you in general. You may find that limiting your time and interaction with someone is a better choice than cutting them off, or you may find that more quality time together may strengthen your relationship.

The greatest love

The most important form of love is the love that you have for yourself, for it is self-love that allows us to build healthy relationships with others.

Loving yourself doesn’t feel like falling in love with another person. It’s simply caring for yourself and your well-being enough to choose people and things that nurture and support you, instead of accepting less than what you deserve out of loneliness or a temporary high. It’s about setting boundaries and following through on those boundaries.

When you act and interact from a place of self-love and self-acceptance, it makes all the relationship difficulties and all sorts of connections a whole lot easier! The awful things people say and do are still awful, but they don’t hurt as much if you’re coming from a place of peace and healing instead of letting them trigger your wounded parts.

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