- From my China trip
This picture was taken when I went to Xian last year. It is the picture that felt right for my blog this month.
Valentine’s Day falls in February. In so many parts of the world, there is a mad dash to get something for that someone special. The shops are decorated in red with displays of ‘heart-shaped’ decorations. So, I thought why not consider February as a ‘heart month’? If we are thinking of love, why not check our own heart centers as well? How healthy are we within our own hearts? Do we celebrate ourselves and our victories of each day?
I feel it is often easy to forget our own ‘heart health’, not just physically, but also emotionally and spiritually. Life has a tendency to become busy and there are so many things that ‘call to us’ or need to be completed. If we have families, then there is looking after their necessities as well. However, at the end of the day, if we are not healthy, how do we expect to help those we love and the ones around us?
Once someone asked a question, “Would you take advice from a doctor on the ill effects of smoking, if you found out that, that doctor was a smoker?” It is always, in my opinion, easier to tell someone what or how to do something, than it is to apply it to ourselves. When you tell someone you love him/her, are you also saying you can love yourself as well? Do we look in the mirror and say to ourselves, “I love you because you are me?”
I came across the following quote:
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. — Confucius.
To me it says, ‘When you love someone you bring out the best in each other.” So, if we love ourselves, do we bring out the best in ourselves?
