LoveSwell
Heal yourself, heal the world.
The LoveSwell journey was designed to help you connect with the inner source of unconditional love that lives within you.
2021 presented a major growth edge for me to cultivate self-love: the grief of losing our beloved soul dog, Zoey, cracked me wide open.
I didn't realize that I had been receiving so much unconditional love from this dog – and her persistent physical presence – and it left a huge hole in my being when she crossed the rainbow bridge.
The song “Lose you to love me” was playing from the phone on my hip as I was knee-deep in dirt weeding my strawberry patch last summer when it hit me:
I was the only one that could fill that hole and only I could generate the love that I needed to feel.
The problem was, I didn't know how to love myself.
We live in a conditional society, where everything that we earn and receive is based upon us being a certain way, doing certain things, achieving certain goals.
All of our shadows and coping mechanisms are created out of a need to hide away the parts of ourselves that are not accepted by the people we are surrounded by and the world that we live in.
We feel that we have to bury entire parts of ourselves in the absence of an unconditional love that embraces our unique, beautiful, strange magic.
And then, we embark upon lives filled with compromise, disconnection and energetic armor that distance us from everything that we truly need from others…and from ourselves.
In a world that constantly judges us and asks us to be something that we are not, it feels all but impossible to listen to our own wisdom and inner compass.
But that is precisely what we must do.
We can wish and pray that others will love us unconditionally, but those hopes may go long unanswered.
Instead, we must learn to love ourselves without condition.
And in this acceptance, in this embracing of every part of ourselves, we can heal ourselves.
And through healing ourselves, we can heal the world.
LoveSwell Journey
We opened the LoveSwell journey with a chakra diagnostic, we danced our hearts out, and then we closed with a visualization where we found a bottomless well of love within our root chakras.
Carried on our breath, we pulled tiny buckets from the well up through our crowns and allowed the warm water of unconditional love to spill down over our faces.
If you'd like to recreate the experience, do the following:
Tune In
Recognize that self-love is generated from the root center, not the heart, which is also where we generate our feelings of safety, security and belonging.
Any and all love that we feel – being “in love” – is an energetic vibration that is generated from the core of our root center.
Any and all love that we “receive” from others is simply them holding space and mirroring back to us the love that is welling up within ourselves.
Healing through self-love generated from the root and magnetized by the heart is the greatest work you can do for our wounded world.
Chakra Diagnostic
Take a moment to check in with each of your chakras, beginning with the root center and moving upward until you reach the crown.
Breathing into each center, notice:
What is the felt sense of this center? How does it feel?
Is there movement or stillness?
Do any colors come through? Shapes, symbols?
Is it heavy or light?
What else to you notice?
Journey & Visualization
Use the LoveSwell playlist to connect with the music, clearing any stuck energy and processing your emotions through movement.
When you get to the Beautiful Chorus song (I am surrounded by love; 2nd from last), slow down, find a seat and sing along with the music.
Pause before the final song (Love Mantra) and listen to the visualization recording (listen or download below), then play the final song while continuing with the breath and visualization on your own.
