The Self lives in the deepest reaches of the heart, the Seat of the Soul. Credit: Ute Possega Rudel
How do we, how can we love our selves?
If we don’t love ourselves … and I don’t mean intellectually … “oh yah, I love myself” … I mean actually giving ourselves tangible, high-quality love, then it limits how much of ourselves we have to give to others.
“High-quality” seems like a better term than “higher-dimensional.” The love we’ll be in after Ascension will probably be seventh-dimensional. It’s a love that will change our lives, knock our socks off, blow our hair back, even when we don’t feel it, but just remember it.
Let’s pretend that I can buy a block of love as I can a block of butter. Since it’s beyond value, we just simply give it.
But the grocer says to us, I have no butter today. I have only margerine made from canola oil and it’s a week old. “Eeee-yuk!”
That is lower-quality love, like the kind we experience in this dense 3/4D layer of reality (I think 3D is the densest for beings in form).
Whatever love we feel in our present surroundings bears only a distant resemblance to higher-quality love, like an economy car to a Mazzerati.
This love, according to Michael, (1) is seventh dimensional. It revolutionizes our life in a moment – the moment the heart door (hridayam) opens and the tsunami of love hits us, it alters our lives forever. (2)
Although all experiences short of Ascension pass, this one culminates in another passing experience of being a point of Light in an Ocean of Love.
I could not let go of my individuation. I did not become the Ocean of Light – the end of all existence. If I did, I would not be here to tell of it.
And my job is to be here and tell of it.
But that’s what awaits us. It just occurred to me that this experience, being Seventh Dimensional, was Ascension. Michael kept telling me I was already ascended and I did not believe him. But of course, it now makes sense.
Back to how to love oneself.
We’re following a process now. I have to go back a bit and pick up the thread.
In my own heart opening on March 15, 2025, after an immense explosion which must have cleared my remaining obstacles, I found myself in the tsunami of love I earlier mentioned.
The heart turns out to be an interdimensional portal. Triggered by the kundalini reaching the fourth chakra, the heart door opens.
The fourth chakra acts like a light switch only it opens the door of the spiritual heart rather than turning on a light. (It’s the “open sesame.”)
It’s also by the way where the Self, the Atman, the Pearl of great price “resides.” More on that another time. (3)
A river of love blew through me, without it having any perceptible mass. It took with it every care and concern I had, every agenda and promise, every bit of identity…. Everything was swept away leaving me clean.
Stop the camera. Let’s now cut to me years later. My heart has … ehnnnn … more or less closed. But it’s open enough that I have the ability to draw that wonderful, nourishing love up from my heart and do things with it.
I draw it up on my in-breath, and put it to work on the pause, and then breathe it out to (the world, the one I love, a friend). First I’ll explain more about how that works to love myself and then let me cite Michael on this very matter.
On the pause I briefly borrow the love and swirl it around my field of awareness. I paint everything with it. I throw it around, as Mary Magdalene once said, with wild abandon) and then I send it on to its destination.
I submit that that is the most useful interpretation I know to the term “love yourself.” I do know it works for me.
OK, now over to Michael, to give my experience some archangelic back-up.
First of all, love must flow, Michael tells us. To experience it, it must flow through us.
Archangel Michael: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you. (4) [My emphasis.]
AAM: Love is a fluid energy. It has need to flow and so when it does not flow it becomes… Well, as you put it, it be can become dry and brittle. It has need to be given and received above, below, within, without and in every which way. (5)
Without you and me, love would return to Original Stillness, the One, the Arcturian Group tell us. It must flow.
Without individualized Divine Consciousness love would not exist because love is the energy of Divine Consciousness infinitely present, flowing, and connecting all ITs expressions. (6)
So, to return to our original question, for me “loving yourself” has a very specific meaning. It points to a tangible action and result.
This is how we love ourselves: We breathe love up from our hearts, swirl it around ourselves during the pause, and breathe it out to the world on the outbreath.
This instantly revives me. It may take a while for it to cause the heart door to blow open (or gently open) if it’s presently closed as it is for almost everyone.
But, believe me, I can think of nothing in life that’s more worthwhile than priming the pump with this exercise or another like it and seeing the heart open and an infinite and supremely-satisfying love flow.
Footnotes
(1) Steve: The space that I call transformative love, what dimension is it?
AAM: It is the Seventh Dimension. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Jan. 20, 2016.) (Hereafter, AAM.)
(2) See:
- “Submerged in Love,” March 14, 2015, in An Ascension Ethnography at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/An-Ascension-Ethnography-5.pdf, and after.
- “Activating the Wellspring – Part 1/2,” March 14, 2015, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2015/03/14/activating-the-wellspring-part-1-2/.
(3) See Possega-Rudel’s perceptive illustration of the situation, in the graphic at the head of this article.
Smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest, this Self forever dwells within the hearts of all. (Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester, trans., The Upanishads. Breath of the Eternal. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1957; c1948, 18.) (Hereafter, UPAN.)
He who … sees [the Atman] inhabiting the lotus of the heart, living among physical elements, sees Brahman indeed. For this First-Born is the immortal self. (UPAN, 21.)
There in the ignorant heart … I dwell. (Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 87.)
The Atman, which is pure consciousness, is the light that shines in the shrine of the heart, the center of all vital force. (Shankara in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, Shankara’s Crest-Jewel of Discrimination. Hollywood: Vedanta Press, 1975; c1947, 63.)
I saw the Self, the Atman, the Pearl of great price in the deepest part of the heart on Sept. 18, 2018. However my experience was moderated. The Divine Mother said that, if it was not, I’d have gone off to the Himalayas to finish the job.
See:
- “Archangel Michael Explains What Happened at Xenia,” Sept. 22, 2018, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/09/22/archangel-michael-explains-what-happened-at-xenia/
- “The Heart is ‘the Seat of the Soul’,” December 17, 2018, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2018/12/17/the-heart-is-the-seat-of-the-soul/.
(4) AAM, Dec. 5, 2018.
(5) AAM, April 30, 2019.
(6) Arcturian Group, Jan. 19, 2025. Moreover the Arcturian Group tells us not to seek love from another as much as from our own hearts, where it resides and flows freely.
“The love or gratitude you seek may never come from those you may expect or want it from, but if you acknowledge and seek it from within– (I can never be separate from the Love I am, I am forever complete and whole because I AM) it will flow to you in ways and from places you least expect.” (The Arcturian Group via Marilyn Raffaele, June 19, 2022, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2022/06/19/the-arcturian-group-via-marilyn-raffaele-june-19-2022/.)