This is the fifth of 6 Tips For Happiness from Lynn Zavaro. Check back each Thursday to read them all.
Tip Number Five: Loving-Kindness. Loving-kindness is the end-all-be-all of discovering our true happiness. How much we love ourselves is directly equal in proportion to how much we are capable of loving and receiving love. To affectively embrace and embody the act of loving ourselves, we have to be kind to ourselves and respectful. This loving-kindness placed toward us will then project outwardly to others. In full circle it will reflect back to us. Take a moment to see if there is a way you are being hard on yourself like judging yourself for not being good enough at your job, or basing your inner-value by the amount of money you have in the bank, or feeling undeserving of a friend’s compliment. Learning how to offer ourselves more loving-kindness softens our heart and enables us to care for ourselves more deeply in order to cultivate more generosity towards others with greater ease.
Lynn Zavaro is an author and artist who has emerged as a defining voice in the art of guiding others to know themselves and create the life they want through the lens of spiritual psychology. She has a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology and has worked in a clinic counseling individuals, couples, children and youth groups. Lynn developed a series of interactive and experiential books and games to support others in having fun while artfully discovering themselves on their creative life paths. Her book and card deck set, The Game of You – An Interactive Way to Know Yourself, Create the Life You Want releases this Fall 2010 from Schiffer Publishing. Find out more about Lynn, her upcoming workshops, and play a free sample game on her website: www.gameofyou.com. Lynn also writes a weekly food blog combining The Game of You cards with a little insight, story and a recipe or two: www.thegameofyou.blogspot.com. She lives in Venice, CA.
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