"What does humanity most need to know in order to feel hopeful?"
Except from Hope For Humanity: Love is the Answer, now what was the question? By Bonnie Bogner and friends
The following newsletter is an excerpt from the book Hope for Humanity: Love is the Answer. Not what was the Question? by Bonnie Boger, a compilation book of which I am one of the authours/channels. You can find Hope for Humanity for sale HERE.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019Â 1:35 PMÂ
What the world needs now is love love love. They weren't wrong back then and they aren't wrong today. The bulk of humanity suffers from a lack of self-love.  When we don't love ourselves then we spend all our energy trying to prove that we are lovable. Then on top of that we stack the need to be more lovable than the next person. There is a real feeling of competition and betterment in the way of needing to be better than the next guy. Not just better than the person we were yesterday. Â
There is a lack of love.  Loving oneself will turn off the inside dialogue that serves only to defeat our greatest desires and stifle the voice of our gifts. We have all come here with gifts for humanity. Each of us has a contribution to the whole. Without your contribution, the recipe is missing something. A key ingredient that leaves the dish slightly off. I am important, you are important. He, she, they, them are ALL important as the next person.  Now if you are reading this and you are thinking well that person over there is not as important as me because… (fill in the blank,) you are missing the point. You are missing your love of yourself. You don't need them to be less for you to be more than. We can all just be enough just being ourselves.  It's really, actually very simple. Humanity makes it complex. It need not be.  Â
We have free will and freedom of choice. We can choose to feel love, or we can choose something else.  It may sound corny but who really cares? If I am worried about how it sounds to the next person, I need to add in more self-love. If I love myself fully and completely, the next guy's opinion won't matter. So, I can just be love, without worrying about the next person's opinion and if, in fact, they are just busy filling themselves with self-love then it just gets better and better.  Â
Have you ever been in that honeymoon state where you just love everybody and everything around you? Do you notice that when you go out into the world in that state of mind good things happen to you? Maybe someone lets you go in front of them in a busy market line.  Or maybe the waiter comps your dessert.  That's what love does. It gives back to you multifold. Â
If you have "tried love in the past" and it hasn't worked out, I'd be willing to bet you were giving love externally before applying that self-love internally. We need to fill our own tanks before we can supply the rest of the world.  No one will love you more than you love yourself. You cannot give the love you don't have inside no matter how hard you try.   Â
So truly, what the world needs now is love sweet love.  All you need to do is love yourself.  That begins with accepting yourself just as you are today, right here, right now. Not 10 pounds lighter or $10 dollars richer. Right flat out now.  As is no warranties or discounts applied.  Just love you.  Full on, in the state you are in today. Right now. This second.  Â
It may take some time. You mean I must love myself with that wart on my knee and that wrinkle on my face?  Yes!  Â
I must love myself even though I yelled at my postman and cut that guy off in traffic? Yes. Â
Forgive yourself for not living up to your own standards. Send yourself love and move on to a better decision next time.  Moment to moment love you no matter where you are at.Â
It's hard, but then, it's honestly not hard. You know? Be honest.  The only reason you don't love yourself all the time is because society tells you that's not ok. You must be conceited or narcissistic.  It' s not the same. Loving yourself at the expense of others is one thing. Loving yourself where you are right now is the thing we are talking about.  You, right there right now, in that chair, reading this note. You are perfect. You are the best you can be in this moment in time doing something good for yourself in reading about how you can and should love yourself as you are.  So, you are doing fine. You aren't doing another person harm. You are doing good for you. Stop. Just breathe for a moment. Connect with your heart.  Send love from you to you. Feels good, doesn't it? Â
Start small.  Three long slow deep breaths, once in the morning and once in the evening sending love from you to you.  The more you do this, the better you feel. The better you feel, the better you behave. The better you behave, the better interactions you have with others. Then they ask what you are doing, and you can tell them. Or you can tell them to go and read this for themselves. Your call. No pressure. Â
Love you!  Â
Patricia Meier