I was reflecting back on my ponderings from last week and a phrase came to mind that has stuck with me “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. Now this is a phrase I’ve heard a few times throughout my life and it’s always been in relation to talking about other people. It makes a lot of sense really, especially bearing in mind that energy follows thought. So, if you think good things good energy will flow to the person you’re thinking about, and vice versa.

Now there are two other themes I want to highlight in this week’s musing: firstly, this phrase doesn’t just apply to saying things about other people – it also applies to saying things about ourselves! So I’m saying to you now, if you don’t have anything nice to say about yourself, then don’t say anything at all! We are all, and I do mean all, beautiful Souls who are having a physical experience. There is nothing at all that could ever stop the Universe/God from loving us completely and unconditionally. It can’t happen so it’s not even worth contemplating. If God can love you then surely you can love you too – especially given that God is in everything, and therefore in you. So even if you think you don’t love yourself, actually you do – so stick that in your pipe and smoke on it! :-)

The second theme is about respecting other people who think a lot of you. Another way to look at it is this, whenever you put yourself down to other people you’re kind of slapping away any good thoughts they have about you. How rude is that? Imagine how you’d feel if you’d given someone something and they just chucked it back at you. Now don’t start feeling all guilty about this, because that’s not the point. The point is to get you to see yourself in a completely different light – the light of love and acceptance. If you weren’t good enough to be here, living life at this time, then you wouldn’t be here believe me.

So get over the negative self talk in your head and see it for what it really is, the Ego Self trying to put you down and keep you in a place of separation and fear. We’re all much more than that – we are each beautiful, sunshine souls who radiate love even if the Ego Self tells us we don’t! Next time you hear yourself saying or thinking something negative, breathe it out, laugh at the Ego Self and know it for what it is, then replace it with a positive affirmation “I am beautiful, just as I am”.

And hush up with all that negative thinking and speaking about other people! It’ll make you old before your time!