An Ongoing Search For Wholeness

I am the whole story, and I just didn't know it for many years of my life.

My life was patterned based on what I learned was appropriate.

Mostly I learned to focus on others for my happiness, love, and wholeness. 

My mother was an incredibly loving person who focussed on me.

It was a time of powerful learning. As I took care of her, she took care of me.

This external focus of love left me with the notion that the only way to feel fulfilled is if I found it from another person.

When do you remember feeling whole?

We often wait for external recognition of one of our accomplishments before we feel the warm body rush.

I remember when I was hired as a human resources executive after doing some consulting for a company. 

My self-confidence and self-esteem shot through my body like an electric current. I was high on myself.

Yes, someone acknowledging me gave me a feeling I was essential and, therefore, whole. Unfortunately, these feelings only last a short time.

We often look for wholeness in romantic relationships. 

It's the symptom of expecting someone else to fill up the parts we feel need fixing.

We have forgotten wholeness comes from the inside.

We have always been and will always be whole. We were born this way, and no one can take it away.

The fact that our sense of wholeness gets buried in our subconscious as kids does not change that we are whole.

We need to remember we have the power, intelligence, resilience, and strength to pull up the feeling of wholeness.

Wholeness is a part of unconditional love. You and I can generate and feel the energy of unconditional love for ourselves.

Here are four ideas to generate the feeling of wholeness and unconditional love:

1.  Practice awakening the sense of wholeness through meditation.

2.  Accept your wholeness and unconditional love even with your imperfections.

3.  Pay attention to your emotions throughout the day and actively bring your wholeness to each moment.

4.  Hug yourself many times a day.

Namaste