Valentine’s Day is upon us, which is a great opportunity to focus on what love is and what it isn’t.
1- Love is embracing yourself, your strengths as well as your weaknesses.
2- Love is seeing your greatness, while acknowledging you are a work in progress.
3- Love is protecting your heart with healthy internal boundaries, instead of relying on others to protect it for you.
4- Love is feeling good about who you are before looking to form a relationship with another.
5- Love is having regular self-care and filling your inner voids, instead of seeking external validation.
6- Love is unconditional, it is intrinsic, not dependent on certain factors existing or not.
7- Love is a verb. It takes work to show up for ourselves. It takes work to show up for another.
8- Love is around us: in our beautiful natural surroundings, in the smile of a child, in the aesthetics of a painting, in a sensual piece of music.
9- Love is within us. It is our job to unearth it from under the layers of to-do lists and the demands of life.
10- Love can be cultivated. We can live more rich lives, with greater awareness and gratitude.
Mindful Nuggets 