The "I Am Loved" Challenge
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I Challenge You to Focus on "I Am Loved" for One Week
I challenge you to focus on "I am loved" for one week, and share your results with others.
I received a similar challenge from Serge Kahili King. Since then, I've found it to be an excellent tool for coping with the more difficult aspects of my life, and I feel a desire to share my success with others.
We've all met a Negative Nancy or Bruce Bummer. No matter how much we try to direct the conversation to a positive direction, Bruce & Nancy choose repeatedly to bring it back to a negative perspective.
That can happen with our internal dialogue about feeling loved too. This simple process is actually an effective way to change our internal Negative Nancy into a habit of choosing to recognize and feel loved.
Take a few moments whenever you think of it, for example:
These are just suggestions for a starting point of when to focus on "I Am Loved". The main thing is to focus on it as often as you can remember, and do it when and how works best for you.
I received a similar challenge from Serge Kahili King. Since then, I've found it to be an excellent tool for coping with the more difficult aspects of my life, and I feel a desire to share my success with others.
We've all met a Negative Nancy or Bruce Bummer. No matter how much we try to direct the conversation to a positive direction, Bruce & Nancy choose repeatedly to bring it back to a negative perspective.
That can happen with our internal dialogue about feeling loved too. This simple process is actually an effective way to change our internal Negative Nancy into a habit of choosing to recognize and feel loved.
What do I mean by focusing on "I am loved"?
It's really simple, just repeat silently to yourself the phrase "I am loved".
Take a few moments whenever you think of it, for example:
When you are happy
When you are under stress
When you are trying to solve a problem
When you don't feel loved
When you have a few moments to spare
When you wake up
When you go to bed
Whenever you are doing a repetitive task
When you ask yourself, "Am I loved?"
Especially when you are depressed
These are just suggestions for a starting point of when to focus on "I Am Loved". The main thing is to focus on it as often as you can remember, and do it when and how works best for you.
Who Loves Me...
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved..." - Victor Hugo
You may start to think about what the source of this love is. The answer is something that's individual to each person. It's also something that can change over time to help maintain the effectiveness of the exercise. The source can be your higher power, God, a friend or spouse, a pet, or even nature, yourself, or the universe. Whatever you find is a beneficial source.Feeling Loved Makes a Difference
When I first started. It quickly made a big difference in my outlook on life. Things got better. I felt less of a need to focus on improving my life...And then I ran into a rough spot where I got depressed about something. When I looked back, I realized that I had almost completely stopped focusing on "I am loved."
So if you run into a rough spot, think back about how often you have been focusing on "I am loved."
I'm not saying that I don't get depressed anymore. But I am saying that I feel like I'm on more of an even keel. Things still get out of balance, but I am confident that even if things don't turn out the way I want, I can still recover and move on.
When You Don't Feel Loved
How is it that this simple task can make such a difference in my life?
Before I started this exercise, I would feel overwhelmed and retreat within myself. I would simply shut down and get depressed. Now I feel like there is something, or someone that wants to help me. I am more able to stay in the present moment and continue to focus on the task at hand.
I think we all have a basic need to feel loved. The more loved we feel, the happier and healthier we are.
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Establish a Pattern of Feeling Loved
Once you've established the pattern it's much easier to maintain.
Specific thoughts or feelings are closely tied to a specific series of electrical impulses through the neurons in your brain. Each time a specific thought occurs it reinforces the corresponding physical path through your brain's neurons.
This reinforcement makes that same physical sequence of neurons more likely to fire again, and also makes it more likely that we will experience the same thought again.
Once you've established the pattern it's much easier to maintain.
The really great thing about this is that we can establish a new pattern of thinking with a little diligence. And once that new pattern of thinking is established, it's way easier to trigger that thought again.So thinking "I Am Loved" as much as you can for one week actually creates a new pattern of thought in your brain. Once that pattern is established it's much easier to return to a state of feeling loved.
My own experience has been that sometimes it may take a while to get back to feeling loved, but often it can happen in a matter of moments.
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This book is about our own power to change our relationships with others. We can interrupt the repeating cycles of how we interact with others, and how they react, by simply changing our actions. Focusing on the simple actions that make change possible, this book offers a step-by-step program for discovering and implementing practical down to earth solutions.
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Calling in "The One"
7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life
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Feeling Loved Quotes
- You may not always be able to feel a deeper heart feeling right away, but stay focused in the heart. The sincerity of your effort can reconnect you to your heart current and start the juices flowing. To plug in, think of someone you love or remember what feels good, maybe a fulfilling experience. Feelings help you remember. - Sara Paddison
- Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us. - Judy Collins
- I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that. - Princess Diana
- I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are. - Carl Sandburg
- It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted. - Jayne Mansfield
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Read I Am Loved stories at the Experience Project.
At 43 Things you can read about the journeys of others as they try to accomplish these goals:
Yes, I Am Loved
, is a children's book written as a "lullaby" story that tenderly describes a family's nightly routine of preparing their child for bed.
Belle Enchanted finds her love of the creative process and writing helps manifest her desires.
Get a free I Am Loved button. It can be a helpful reminder to focus on "I Am Loved."
At 43 Things you can read about the journeys of others as they try to accomplish these goals:
162 people want to, "Love myself for who I am, be loved, and give love."
122 people want to, "Be loved for who I am."
3,919 people want to, "Love myself."
Yes, I Am Loved, is a children's book written as a "lullaby" story that tenderly describes a family's nightly routine of preparing their child for bed.Belle Enchanted finds her love of the creative process and writing helps manifest her desires.
Get a free I Am Loved button. It can be a helpful reminder to focus on "I Am Loved."
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True Stories of True Love from People Like You
This is a book of touching stories told by a diverse group of people, from the famous to not so famous, including corporate leaders, psychologists, housewives, and more. A picture of how many different people express and feel love unfolds through the book. You can also add your own story of feeling loved to the back to make this a special keepsake for your loved one.
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laporter79
Feb 6, 2012 @ 12:12 pm | delete
- I am loved. Thanks!
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Janiece
Nov 29, 2011 @ 5:51 pm | delete
- We are loved. Blessed by a Squid Angel.
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SheWritesaLot
Nov 27, 2011 @ 10:19 pm | delete
- What a positive message. Great lens!
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Nov 26, 2011 @ 4:56 pm | delete
- what a great lens. it always makes you feel better you say positive things.
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- great tribute to love and how to do it or receive it, I'm glad I stopped by this morning on your lens, squidliked it.
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- I am loved, I am grateful and I am designed to be successful in everything that I put my best efforts towards. Successful and loving people come into my life today. 1778 ? American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of ...
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