Get Rid of Guilt and Start Living! Molly Luffy Teaches Us How
Recently, a new client said to me, “Molly, I really want to love myself but I don’t know how.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this statement. Many years ago I woke up to the fact that my spiritual journey and search for answers of self growth led me right back to myself. When I realized that the real journey I needed to take was to love myself for who I was, I felt scared but the feeling was overpowered by a strong sense of purpose and desire to take the journey. I felt driven to figure out what it was going to take for me to love myself.
I didn’t have a roadmap when this journey started but I was determined and kept working through it. I searched for strategies and ideas from spiritual teachings that resonated with me. I was brave and looked at my feelings, beliefs and things I was ashamed of. Eventually, I became skilled in working with energy and I was able to let all of my shame and guilt go.
After I let everything go, life started looking completely different for me. Instead of beating myself up, my inner voice had a dialogue that was naturally supportive and loving. When I found myself struggling with something and I noticed that I was getting frustrated, I soothed myself with kind and loving words. I know who I am at the core and it feels amazing. I am finally comfortable in my own skin!
My life has changed for the better in countless ways and now I am lucky enough to support others in their own journey to love themselves. If you are ready to take this journey, I’d like to support you with some questions and strategies to help you get started.
1. Commit to the process. Consider loving yourself and actively work on it as you would any other important goal.
2. Get in touch with your “inner critic.” All of us having a continuous dialogue in our minds that often sends us damaging and hurtful messages. In order to retrain your brain, focus your attention on what’s going on inside of your mind. Create an inventory of beliefs, feelings and fears you’d like to release.
3. Release your shame and negative beliefs. Before you can effectively fill yourself with empowering thoughts and beliefs, you need to bulldoze those that aren’t serving you. Learn how to work with energy then clear yourself of your inner critic Inventory.
4. Tame your inner critic. Once you’ve started to rid yourself of the damaging thoughts, you can start to empower yourself with new, uplifting beliefs. When you catch your inner critic doing its old negative song and dance—catch it. Say some uplifting words and retrain your inner critic to be your inner cheerleader!
When one owns up to the fact that they don’t love themselves, it can feel scary and lonely. Facing it is the first step to fixing the problem. Then the loneliness and scared feeling can be replaced by a sense of excitement and empowerment because loving yourself is spiritual gold. It’s the key to the kingdom; the way to create a life that you love. Magic and miracles await you, if you’re brave enough to walk this path.
About Molly Luffy
Copyright 2010, Molly A. Luffy, MBA. Molly is an Author, Speaker, Intuitive, Energy Healer, Professional Coach and Self-Love Advocate who assists Spiritual Women in creating a life that is happy, abundant and successful. Her unique approach to goal achievement blends practical, spiritual and energy healing modalities resulting in powerful transformation. Her clients call working with her “magical” and “life changing.”
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