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31 Keepsakes continues with Keepsake #3: Be Comfort

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Image via WikipediaHello sweet friend and welcome back to the continuation of 31 Keepsakes is or 31 Days and 31 ways to love ourselves more fully and completely.

So grateful you are participating in this journey, allowing yourself to pause and reflect and ponder ways to care for your heart more tangibly and readily, and for realizing your precious right to do so.

Just can’t express enough how much it means that you’re here.

🙂 Hugs!

And if this is your first visit  or if you kinda wanna wrap your arms around the whole why 31 Keepsakes

~ begin here with the background….31 Keepsakes

~ then, click here for discovering and receiving Keepsake #1

~ and then click here for discovering and receiving Keepsake #2

Prepare to Receive ~ ~ ~

So…just a gentle reminder to all, the way we’re enjoying beginning the process of opening up and savoring each keepsake is to first take some moments

a. to ready up our space that we’re sitting amidst to read this post and

b. to ready up our thought.

Ready up our space:

What you may find helps you ready up your space is…

Get cozy for this one.

Maybe find a comfy blanket you wanna curl up with on a couch or a soft spot on the floor.

Maybe you wanna light a candle and just soak up the atmosphere of warmth from it’s glow.

Ready up our thought:

Then to ready up your thought to receive and savor the meaning of the keepsake, let’s pause, take a deep breath and quiet and settle our thoughts.

We’re settling into a space to receive a thought keepsake. So it’s important to calm and quiet whatever is the mental hubbub stirring around.

Go ahead and take all the moments you need to create a cozy space and a calm thought.

I’ll wait and I’m right here when you’re readied up….

Come back here to this spot when you are….

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Okay….here we go…we’re gonna:

1. open up the keepsake, consider it’s meaning

2. visualize its meaning

3. then I’ll share why this concept mommies me

4. then I’ll share how I use the keepsake

5. and I’ll offer a suggestion for how you can hold it in your heart and use it straight away

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Let’s open up the Keepsake

Keepsake #3: Be Comfort

I just adore this concept of comfort.

The meaning I’m intending you hold in your heart with this keepsake is the idea of being that presence of comfort for yourself whenever and however you need it…no matter how often, no matter for what circumstance.

By being comfort, what I’m nudging you to consider is drawing on all you are, draw from within, as a source of just that for yourself: comfort.

Comfort as a verb means: to soothe, console, reassure…

As a noun, comfort means: relief in affliction; consolation, that which causes relief, or satisfaction.

To me? Comfort is what gives us a hug.

Being comfort to ourselves is allowing ourselves to hug our hearts and mommy our moments.

Being comfort is really the whole core of mommying ourselves.

Visuals: a hug, a bubble bath, a cozy fire, a big ‘ole crock-pot of home-made stew, a huge warm heated blanket, a handmade knitted sweater, a robe, a pair of slippers, a hot cuppa tea, our arms wrapped around our hearts squeezing the heck out of ourselves.

Why ‘Being comfort’ mommies me:

I choose this concept to offer as a keepsake for one main reason: we are bombarded with the belief that when we need comfort, we must seek it externally.

Confession: I used to eat, run, shop, drink, smoke, even move when I sought comfort. (*search any of those terms on this blog you’ll find stories of how I sought healing).

Or that someone else must give comfort to us.

Lemme just call it: the need for comfort isn’t ever wrong.

Lemme say that again: the need for comfort isn’t ever wrong.

How we respond? It’s totally everything.

How we respond will either prolong the need for comfort or satisfy the yearning.

I choose immediate relief. 🙂 And I’ve learned — for me — that means seeking out drawing from within for comfort.

When we seek comfort solely from externals, there’s a tendency to perpetuate dependency on externals, and without them a tendency to feel alone, afraid, or simply put: “unmommied.”

By nudging ourselves to give the comfort we seek to ourselves, we own our moments and allow ourselves to strengthen from within.

Be the comfort you seek when you need a hug. And more? Even when you don’t think you need one.

How I practice ‘Being Comfort’

Every moment, I check my thoughts and every moment literally I reassure my heart with a hug. I really do. I make this a practice almost minute by minute so there’s hardly ever a time anymore, no joke, when I’m caught off guard feeling empty, alone, or afraid.

It’s that effective.

How you can practice ‘Being Comfort’:

Start sifting your thoughts.

Start sensing if and when you wanna give yourself a hug.

Start doing it regularly.

Doesn’t matter where or with whom you are.

At any moment we can jump into your thoughts and hug our hearts and be a presence of right now support and comfort for ourselves. (yes in traffic, yes on the subway, yes walking, yes in line, yes when amidst a crowd, yes when no one else at home).

I’ll offer this briefly here and then if you wanna discuss it further, be in touch: we are never alone — no matter if we’re on our own or by ourselves. We are always connected to the source that grounds and bases us, which for me is a tangible active presence of Divine Love. The way we feel that 24/7 at any moment is to be that love, be that comfort for ourselves.

Tip: How to take Keepsake#3: Be Comfort with us

Hmmmm.

My tea is needing warming and your probably wanting to get another cuppa too. 🙂

So in wrapping this keepsake up for us to take with us, I wanna just nudge: we can start right now.

In whatever way we’re able give ourselves, our hearts a hug….

  • For being the precious one that we are.
  • For caring about being a better human.
  • For loving so deeply so many.
  • For trying ever still to be so much to and for so many.

We are worth every ounce of love and comfort we can possibly feel.

May we give it to ourselves more regularly with this keepsake.

Hmmm, thank you soo soo much for being here.

Til tomorrow, here’s to being comfort…especially for ourselves.*

Tre ~

* If any of these ideas resonate with you and you wish to share an actual dialogue with me, please leave me a comment below how to reach you or email me at tre at thought by thought dot net.

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