Meeting one's Inner Goddess

This is an excellent question for Lisa! I believe she's the life coach?

I suggest that your friend learn how to meditate. Meditating, quiets the mind opens one up to suggestion. The suggestion in this case would be meeting her Inner Goddess which in actuality is extension of herself. If that doesn't fly right with her she could just try to meet her inner child who can show her the way to her creativity.

Thank you for the vibes for Lori. She's a very special woman and it's breaking my heart to see her in such turmoil. She's an intelligent woman who has never thought of her inner self as a goddess. I think it's high time she does.

Amen, sister! Sounds to me, like she deserves a friend like you JoAnn. Now to convince her of that.

I'd be interested in knowing how to do this, too. Maybe she can help break down the wall around my heart...

B.

What?!

{{{HUGS}}}

I think we can all benefit from this. I'd be willing to bet that all of us have at least a partial wall around our hearts. Even the most generous have a few blocks.........

Well - that would be me.

Thanks JoAnn and Margie...

B.

Well, some walls came tumbling down...and others got built in different places. It's a work in progress, lol. But seriously - I need to find a way to touch that inner part of me and would welcome suggestions.

Hugs to all that need 'em, B.

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:42:52 -0400, JoAnn Paules wrote (in message ):

I don't know about Inner Goddess, but I do know about learning to love onesself. Took me a long time, I'll tell you. For me, the first part was discovering that I had a lot more positive traits than negative traits. (I actually wrote two lists, and it took me years to internalize them)

Then, i realized the stuff I didn't like about myself was mostly crap. Not tall enough? Oh, please. Didn't get my PhD. Double oh please - how many kids can say they supported their families. Not as pretty as my sister? That was my father talking, not me - besides, if I were so freakin' ugly, why did everyone mistake the two of us for twins? Stuff like that.

I looked at all the cool things I have done: traveled all over the place by myself, learned to repair almost anything on a car, made sculptures that I still find incredibly beautiful almost thirty years later. (and I had the croags to make nude sculptures while in high school) I learned that I wasn't the jerk I had always thought myself to be.

Once I got that down, the rest was easy. It's simple to care about others when you really care about yourself. If you're happy, you can spread it around and even more happiness returns to you.

Is that anything like the Goddess stuff? I have no clue. But I'm a happy person most of the time, and try to make the people I touch a little happier too. Works for me.

Kathy N-V

Actually, yes it is! You discovered your Inner Goddess by defining her abilities. Maybe I need to suggest that Lori make her lists. Good idea!

If shes like most people she will find it hard to believe that there are good things about her, or they outweight the good. It may take a long time, as Kathy suggested, for the reality to sink all the way into her. It helped me to have someone around who saw the inner goddess in me, to help hold a more realistic and optimistic mirror up to me when all I could see was the mirror my father held up. I trusted that Leah would tell me the truth, both good and bad, as unbiased as love could make her.. :-) and eventually I saw that inner person she was able to see... but I was willing to believe she was there. If your friend is willing to see the good, she will find it! Hugs Diana

Kathy, I think your Inner Goddess and Outer Goddess are the same.

Cheers, Carla

Kathy N-V wrote:

You have at least one gap in the wall! I know. :-)

-Su

Well, more than one...but the areas in between are pretty strong and hard to batter down. ;-)

Maybe if we stormed the bastions and pelted it with delicas they would soften and come down? Diana

LOLOL...

Might take some lampwork missiles with delica shrapnel...

Its worth the effort. Maybe a dusting of frit? Ohhhhh... you could end up annealed and really yummy like some giant, shiney, BEAD!! Ready, aim......FIRE!!!! :-) Then lots of hugs afterwards. Diana

The most effective tool I've ever found for getting someone familiar with their Inner Goddess is simply telling them about her, on a day-to-day basis. You know the old adage that a child becomes what they are told they are? Tell a child that they are bad, or smart, or sensitive, or bullying, and they listen to that part of themselves and it becomes stronger? The same principle seems to work for adults, many times. Most people who don't know their inner goddess have a hard time accepting compliments... it makes them feel uncomfortable and awkward, so their friends often unconsciously avoid giving them the really good compliments... telling them that they're a goddess, a gorgeous strong intelligent woman, pointing out their strengths whenever you get the chance. Especially if they say they admire you, it sinks in, it really does, and after years of complimenting them you may start to find that they accept the compliments, and believe them.

It's worked really well on friends of mine who had self-esteem and confidence problems, and it's worked really well on me, too. :) It's really just the nexus for a support system... a group of friends who know how wonderful you are and tell you so.

-Kalera

This works *if* the person wants to believe in their inherent goodness. I have run into people who choose not to believe in themselves for their own agenda. I cant wrap my mind around that way of thinking, and choose not to spend a lot of time with those people who have given up. I do love the feeling that happens when the friend at first grudgingly, then with greater awakening decides to believe all the good things people say about them. Heck, I loved the feeling when it happened to ME! I wanted to get well, some folks dont. Diana