Day 5 – Adore
Daily Insight
Good morning goddess.
I know you said it out loud already - Good morning glorious goddess!
What does the concept of adoration mean to you? The dictionary defines adoration as ‘deep love and respect’. DEEP love and respect. It is so easy to bandy about the term adoration. I ‘adore’ this and I ‘adore’ that but do we truly know how to adore? Deep love and respect is a weighty concept. Weighty and yet still totally appealing.
The past few days have been all about growing your love connection with your physical body – do you think you could try to stretch this to deep love and respect? So often adoration is pushed on us by various sections of society – however well-meaning they might be, we seem to take on adoration as a duty – often to a deity. What about an authentic deep love and respect then? If you think about the past few days spent connecting, observing and appreciating your body, I challenge you now to deepen your sentiment to the point of love and respect.
I believe that from what you have acknowledged over the past few days, surely respect must already be there…now push that to love. Yesterday you practised seeing yourself through the eyes of a lover. Today, you get to be your own lover. How would you treat a beloved lover today? How would your lover treat you? What pleasure would you bestow upon each other? Kind gestures, a gentle touch, a surprise maybe?
If not a lover, then think about how you would adore a deity. Consider all the ways that you would bestow adoration. Quiet time, prayer or meditation, gifts and sacrifices.
Adoring a lover or a deity is about offering pleasure to the other. Whether it is physical, emotional or spiritual, adoration is expressed beautifully in the giving of pleasure.
With this in mind, think about your body. As a lover or a deity, think about showing adoration to your body.
Daily Affirmation
My body is my life, I adore my body.
Call to Action
🖤 Today is about pleasure, so write down 3 ways that you will offer pleasure to your body today. Whatever happens today – be sure to carry out these pleasure offerings as offerings of adoration to your body and yourself.
🖤 Read this short list out loud as if you are telling the object of your adoration, the ways that you will be bringing them pleasure today…
🖤 As always – mirror time. Today, as you look into the mirror, look into your eyes for as long as possible – try to push it to 5 minutes if you can. If you can’t manage 5 minutes, then try for 1 minute and build from there – you’ll eventually get to 5 minutes. As you stare into your own eyes, see yourself and everything you’ve been through. Your body has done every moment of this journey with you and deserves your adoration.
🖤 Listen to the Daily Meditation.
🖤Use the Daily Affirmation. Add it on to the pleasure offerings that you give to your body today. Say it out loud, write it down, think it to yourself and use it as often as possible throughout the day. At the end of today, say it to yourself again before you go to sleep. If possible, listen to the meditation again before sleeping as well.