I recently received my first Ho’oponopono Lomi Lomi Hawaiian massage. This treatment has a great focus on positive energy, holistic wellbeing, spiritual healing, deep breathing and detoxifying the body. All through my massage, my therapist expressed some inspiring and insightful messages which will affect my personal growth as a work at home mum. Let me share the most powerful lessons I received:
Unconditional Self-Love
As mothers, we all have unconditional love for others, still we forget to give ourselves this same unconditional love love! We give forgiveness others for their mistakes, while we give ourselves harsh judgements for our own actions or results. We grant our children and others we love the room required for their personal development and growth, while we settle on incredibly challenging ambitions for ourselves. And just as I trust and teach everyone else to embrace the process, to move gradually toward their most meaningful goals, to embrace personal growth, to concentrate on their talents and passions as work at home mums, and to act with integrity… I tell myself to ‘get there right now, to wipe out my weaknesses, to surmount all obstacles, to get tough and be better than my own self! (I realise I am disclosing some of my personal challenges here – but I believe this may serve and inspire other people!). Like most people, I have to practice more what I preach, and allow myself to grow as I provide a safe personal environment of unconditional love!
Achieving Balance Between Action and Allowing
My therapist spoke of the Masculine and Feminine side of all human beings. The Masculine side brings the actions, the steady drive to create change, to re-shape, to DO. The Feminine side inspires gratitude and stillness, and opens to RECEIVE and ALLOW. A great balance involving the Masculine and Feminine sides orchestrates holistic wellbeing of the mind, body and spirit, and bring the realisation of our greatest potential and desires. I have heard this repeatedly in the last few months… but at this point, I need to truly receive it and put it into practice! Taking consistent action is one vehicle, but often we become so immersed in creating change and ‘DOING’, that we cannot express gratitude and appreciate the stillness of what is, in the present time. We may not see opportunities and gifts, ready for us to utilise. We might not attract and allow for things, people or events that require our focus and openness. So while I’m greatly focused on creating positive change, taking inspired action and completing my goals as a mumpreneur, I’ll make certain to look up often, grasp the abundance I already possess, open my mind and my heart, and ALLOW!
Your Body is Your Best Friend
According to many, our ‘body is a temple’, but the analogy of a best friend is more meaningful to me. Together with the message of unconditional self-love, how about perceiving and taking care of my body like a best friend? To my best friend, I am kind, gentle, caring, respectful, mindful, generous, available, patient, and loving. My body needs all this! As I apply this to my daily mindfulness and actions, I will genuinely provide my body with what it requires for mental and physical wellbeing, from nutrition to fitness, and from oxygen and relaxation to strength and energy. It is an attitude and priority shift, as I nurture my body as I would for a best friend, and devote it the love, respect, time and care that it needs to give power to my mind and actions. Nice approach indeed, in particular for busy work at home mums!
I thoroughly enjoyed the Hawaiian massage, and particularly the meaningful messages given in this approach for holistic wellbeing, which I will apply to my home business and personal development Before I go, let me share with you the ‘9 Principles of Living in Natural ‘Huna’ Harmony’, which were communicated repeatedly during the session:
Be Graceful (Ho’ola) • Be Aware (Ike) • Be Free (Kala)
Be Focused (Makia) • Be Here (Manawa) • Be Happy (Aloha)
Be Confident (Mana) • Be Positive (Pono) • Be Merciful (‘Ohana)
Here is to empowering mumpreneurs and mums working from home to grant themselves unconditional love, to achieve the essential balance between ‘taking action’ and ‘allowing’, to practice gratitude and appreciate the personal development, and to truly respect their bodily health and wellbeing!
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