1. Praise is encouraging! We live in a culture that tends to withhold praise and positive acknowledgment. We become aware of this once we receive generous praise. It’s almost shocking to realize how much praise we truly need and how much better our lives operate from praise. It’s a total necessity!
2. Praise is inspiring! Each of us rises into our highest Self when we feel worthy and deserving. It energizes us to feel we’re doing well, making some progress, and feeling as though – even though we’ve got a long way to go - we’re good enough just the way we are.
3. Praise is empowering! We know how disempowering it is to be criticized or even insulted. It’s deflating and it’s really hard to recover. “Where did love go?” we wonder. And, more importantly, “How quickly can we get the feeling of love back to us!”
The feeling of love begins with praise and positive acknowledgment. Sometimes we find it difficult to do this for ourselves. This is when we find a loving friend who we feel totally emotionally safety with and ask them to help us feel loved. It is a privilege for a true friend to offer positive reinforcement and lavishly help to bring you back to remembering your wonderful worth and value. You will get to offer the same to your friend at times as well.
There are also some things we can do for ourselves that are important to get us back on track towards giving ourselves generous praise. Here’s how.
Take all self criticism and dump it out and now. All of it! We’re way too hard on ourselves. Come up for air often and let in generous praise, recalling the precious love you hold in your heart and the good it carries. Try to stay clean of those dense, dark energies that rob us of feeling loved and worthy.
Each evening, make a list of the few things you did well. You may sit there for awhile with nothing on your list. That’s okay. You’re opening up to something that will begin to flow with love for yourself.
And while you’re waiting, try to hold at bay the criticism. You’ve had enough of that! Notice that, though it may be present, it doesn’t have to identify you. Just put it under observation and don’t take it in as belonging to you. It’s now time for you to receive the love you deserve.
Also, identify your greatest need. Perhaps it’s to become less stressed, or to be more outgoing in a positive way, or to show more overt love, to speak up and say something lovely from your heart, or to share your biggest dream and even hold the space open for its possibilities. Or perhaps you need courage to confront something difficult that you’ve buried and don’t want to face.
It could be someone in your way who is blocking your self praise. There is a psychic energy that operates through some who are good people, but their hearts are closed shut. These people are sending out a vibration that tends to sabotage your soul, oppressing it with negative thoughts and energies. It acts like a jail sentence to the soul. These people would pooh-pooh the idea of self praise, telling you it’s egotistical and even insinuate that praise is for the weak. But you know better!
By identifying these people in your life, you can have compassion for them, but step over their dead souls and keep going forward! Know that by your awakening, it will raise their vibration as well.
Set a simple, easy goal to take one step towards realizing your dream or meeting your greatest need. One of my greatest needs lately is to stay with generous praise for myself. In this way, I stay deeply connected to myself and divine Love. And Love is the way I choose to live my life as a Love Master.
Next, once you take a step towards meeting your need, go crazy with praise for yourself. Praise yourself like nobody’s watching! For myself, I’m filling myself with profuse praise for realizing that I need praise and positive acknowledgment & my soul feels encouraged and strong just talking to you right now!
Let’s see how much praise you can actually pour in and receive in huge quantities, non stop! Notice how wonderful it feels! How encouraged, empowered, and inspired you feel! YAY!
Who you are is essential for the world. We need you at your best so you can express your gifts and flow with healing love to yourself and to us all!
Thank you for who you are! I look forward to reading your comments on my blog! Please feel free to share this message to everyone you know!
Teaching Points
Praise is encouraging, inspiring and empowering.
You need daily praise - and lots of it – for the rest of your life!
You can ask a friend for help to get you started. It will help them too.
Take steps to offer yourself daily, rich praise. Here are some ways: Recall the love you hold in your heart. Dump out all self criticism immediately. Stay clean of dark energies as you hold dark energies of self criticism and self hatred at a safe distance of observing them. Make a daily list of things you did well, or for who you are, even if it’s that you just showed up for the day! Thank yourself!
Identify your biggest need or dream. Plan to take one step towards it and when you do, give yourself generous praise!
Be aware of those who sabotage self praise. Steer clear of their dark energies and keep moving forward.
Go crazy with praise for yourself! Celebrate the tiniest things with a big, “YAY!!!”
Stay deeply connected to yourself by remembering that you deserve to be richly loved.
Move towards your full potential by giving daily attention to your preciousness and all there is about you that is so wonderful.
Remember how essential you are to the world and how very much we need you (and each other) at your best, giving your gifts and flowing with healing Love.
hannon Peck is a spiritual healer & teacher of love & healing. She is passionate about healing & relies on divine Love's presence & guidance, which includes a spiritual practice of intuition, prayer, inspiration, meditation, & metaphysics for healing. Shannon, along with her husband, Dr. Scott Peck, is co-founder of TheLoveCenter, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to raising universal Love consciousness.
Shannon also teaches at the AGAPE International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California (Los Angeles). She was previously co-host of "Love Talk" a live, one hour weekly call-in show, on SIRIUS satellite radio, all about love. She has a degree in Religious Studies from Emerson Theological Institute and is also a Reverend. She is a former host of "Montage," a PBS TV talk show interviewing guests. Shannon lives in San Diego with her husband, Dr. Scott Peck.
