What is your favorite LOVE song?

Ohh, there are so many good ones!

All you need is LOVE – What is LOVE – LOVE stinks – LOVE will find a way – Can you feel the LOVE tonight – LOVE Yourself – A crazy little thing called LOVE – I want to know what LOVE is – Endless LOVE – How deep is your LOVE and Sweet LOVE

These are just a few of the many LOVE songs that can bring us to connect with LOVE.​

Which one are you singing right now at this time in your life?

If you just had a nasty break up, well then maybe LOVE Stinks is your song of choice. If you have just fallen in LOVE it could be the ever romantic Endless LOVE, or perhaps you want to know what LOVE is? Well, in that case it would be…I Want To Know What LOVE Is.

In one of Paul McCartney songs, he sings… “Some people want to fill the world with silly LOVE songs. What’s wrong with that, I need to know cause here I go agaaaain!“

Anyone who knows me also knows that I have always LOVED music and lyrics! Songs can make me smile, cry, dance and connect with my heart & soul. They can bring me right back to a moment in time, visualise the future or live gloriously in the present! A song can be a mantra or dialogue to have with the self. It’s simple my friends – Whatever song you sing to yourself is what will show up in your life! LOVE lives in you – through you and no one deserves your LOVE more than you. Let’s say that again… No one is more deserving of your unconditional LOVE than you! And it’s your choice to LOVE yourself or not, regardless of where you are, what you have done or what has happened in your life.

Read on and discover, or rediscover your selfie, your magnificent self, and connect to the expansive LOVE within you! Then follow a simple practice that will guide you to see the LOVE in you and notice LOVE everywhere in your life!

Be gentle with yourself and remember: Practice makes present & What you practice saying, doing and singing is what becomes present in your life.

In this millennium we sometimes feel LOVE only when get a certain number of likes on social media – win a game – make the grade, get the job/promotion the guy/girl or be accepted into the “right” school.

We can also find ourselves looking for LOVE in all the wrong places such as a vacation destination, jewelry, a new car or another person and when we don’t find it, we can turn to food, excessive alcohol and drug use and have a negative outlook on life. LOVE can also be perceived more about what we have or what we do rather than who we truly are. Who we are should be the first thing we ask ourselves in our quest for LOVE.

OK, Hold up!!!! I’m not saying jump off social media. I LOVE Facebook – technology rocks right?! It’s fun to get “likes”, win a game and what’s not to LOVE about a nice vacation!?!

All I’m saying is LOVE is an inside/out job, and it begins inside of you!

When we LOVE ourselves…truly love and accept ourselves. You know, even the stuff you won’t post on Instagram;) Only then will you feel deserving of LOVE and be able to LOVE others freely. Only then will you be able to give and receive LOVE, compassion, forgiveness & empathy…. Oh empathy, what a beautiful expression of LOVE.

Empathy is connecting, powerful and one of the top qualities in our greatest world leaders, Dr Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Abe Lincoln, Oprah and Deepak Chopra. They are all empathetic and powerful! Their empathy begins with self LOVE. And just like them, we all have the ability to choose LOVE. To encompass self LOVE we must first release what burdens us, such as anger, unforgiveness, resentment, unworthiness and shame. When we can let go of what shadows our self LOVE, we then open ourselves to an abundance of unconditional true LOVE. Self LOVE is not about the ego or thinking we are better than others, nor is it selfish. It’s recognizing we are all worthy and deserve LOVE. Don’t we all deserve LOVE? Of course we do and LOVING the self benefits you and your LOVED ones.

So go on: LOVE Thy Selfie, strike a pose for those fun, fancy, goofy, pretty pics you post. Just remember to LOVE yourself, your beautiful, unique self. You so deserve it!​

I will leave you with a line from perhaps my favorite LOVE songs called The Greatest LOVE Of All – written by: Michael Masser and Linda Creed sung by George Benson and Whitney Houston. Both versions are great! This is a song that my LOVING mother Agnes Dalsey instilled in me. Thanks Mom 🙂

”I found the greatest love of all, it’s happening to me, I found the greatest love of all inside of me…and if by chance that special place, that you’ve been dreaming of, leads you to a lonely place. Find your strength in LOVE.”​

Sing this song to yourself everyday or find a song that suits you. For your song becomes your truth. And please – please – please share it with your kids, as they learn how to love themselves from you! Ok, I’m really feeling the LOVE! How bout you? Tina Turner asks in her song…. What’s LOVE got to do with it??? The answer my friends …..EVERYTHING!!​