Subject 28: Self-Dates: Taking Time for Yourself

Self-Dates: Taking Time for Yourself

A visual meditation and Virtual outing for You

Journey with me as I go out on a self-date :) I do this as a lovely practice often. In this vlog, which doubles as a visual meditation and virtual outing, I spend nourishing alone and explorative time at The Getty Museum in sunny Los Angeles. 

Taking time for ourselves is essential; it’s how we continually learn and evolve ourselves. Taking time for ourselves is a great way to cultivate our inner lives, inner peace, and greater self-awareness/worth. It’s how we take our power back. Solitude is sacred.

Love you so much, VHD Community!! Relax, rest, and enjoy!!


Sometimes, you have to go be alone to come back and be better. Solitude is sacred.
— Lalah Delia
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Additional Thoughts



Contemplation


There are many reasons and times when being alone with yourself is cathartic, essential, necessary, and cleansing. Here are some examples:

  • To process emotions, you're experiencing

  • To process a process, you’re going through

  • To discharge heavy energy/s

  • To release emotional stress

  • To release what isn't yours vibrationally

  • To clear your mind

  • To get back in your own energy

  • To seek and gain clarity

  • To listen to your inner voice

  • To connect to your higher power

  • To learn and explore something new

  • To treat yourself

  • Refresh and reset your spirit, soul, mind, and vibrational field


Where are at least three places you can take yourself out on a self-date this season?


IMPLEMENTATION

Things To Do Solo:


1. Volunteer time: go alone and spend a day away from your life and impact someone else's. What causes are you passionate about? Where/how can you spread your gifts and share your energy? 

Volunteering is also a great way to learn new skills. A new craft in particular for me (although I wasn't alone) was learning to build a picket fence while volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. A whole picket fence ya'll! What stood out to me was the process of building a fence felt like a meditation. It was the most relaxing, deep physical labor ever!! Who knew!? 

2. Mother Nature: Let Mother Nature be your guide and companion. Nature is one of the most powerful, potent, and effective conduits available to us. Time spent in nature is soul and energy medicine, it's cleansing, and most of the time, it's free, unless you're at a National Park or State Beach, where there's a small fee to support and enter. (Support your local state and national parks!!) These fees are contributions. They help with the upkeep of preserving these local and national natural spaces and treasures. 

Go out and explore nature. Happy adventures!! Don't litter.

3. Go to a sacred site or space: Spending time in sacred spaces alone is so freeing. Without the presence of someone else, you can allow your spirit and heart to open up in profound ways that only solitude can bring forth. The good news is that The Most High and your divine guides are always with you.


Some of the other ways are:

  • Going to a garden

  • A favorite restaurant

  • A museum

  • A concert

  • A spa or nurturing treatment

  • Go check out a movie

  • Going hiking

  • Taking up a new class/ skill

  • Hitting the road. Take a road trip

  • Other forms of travel and exploration


Use discernment and wisdom wherever you go. Stay mindful of your surroundings, plan ahead, leave a note with someone, and go have fun!


INTROSPECTION

  1. What are your intentions for taking time for yourself?

  2. Go within. Listen. Where is your life and soul guiding you?

  3. Can you feel and sense, with clarity, where you’re being called to expand and vibrate higher through solitude?

  4. Are there healthy boundaries in place to support your ‘me-time’? If not, how will you set them and honor them?

  5. What is your soul’s medicine this season? What’s nourishing you? What’s currently feeding your soul? Do more of that!! Alone!!

  6. Where in your life are you feeling led to be alone more often?

  7. How will you honor the process?

  8. What are at least three places you can take yourself out on a self-date this season?



Related Quotes


“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

― Toni Morrison, Beloved


“Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”

― Louise Hay


“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”

― Unknown


“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

― Rumi


Find your soul’s medicine.
— Lalah Delia

Subject 27: 3 Things I'm Learning This Season

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This season is a sacred part of the process.
— Lalah Delia

Three Things I’m Learning This Season



Journey with me!! Come along, as I spend nourishing time in nature's sanctuary and reflect on Three Things I'm Learning in This Season. I've been paying deep attention to my life and honoring the process. It's a beautiful thing when we reach a place of sacred flow, as in not forcing our life, but instead flowing and being in sacred tune with our lives, with sacred divine timing, and with the bigger divine process happening for us and through us.

In this video vlog, I'll be sharing what I'm learning and leaning all the more into this season.


Butterfly vibrations. The butterflies love me! And they love you!

Butterfly vibrations. The butterflies love me! And they love you!

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Contemplation

What are Three Things you’re learning This season?

What Are You Learning:

  1. Mind-wise

  2. Body-wise

  3. Spirit-wise

  4. Soul-wise

  5. Social-wise

  6. Vibration-wise

You're divinely guided on your journey. Your Higher Power knows the best way. Honoring the process and guidance is how you take your power back and/or stay in your place of power.

IMPLEMENTATION

What is the SACRED WORK To Do?

Stay Ready. Fortify. Do more of what sharpens you, nourishes you, and gives you power: mind, body, spirit, soul, vibrational. This helps you to show up ready and in your power and higher capacity and to remain composed, graceful, and poised.  

What can you do more of this season? What can you do less of?


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INTROSPECTION

  1. Are you listening to your body and to your life? 

  2. Go within. Listen. What is it communicating to you?

  3. What’s the divine assignment this season?

  4. Observe your life and take notes. Do more of what makes it, and you vibrate higher daily.

  5. Are there things, or people, that are no longer serving you in this season?  

  6. What is your soul’s medicine this season?

  7. Are you honoring this season and its process?

  8. How can you honor it more?


Be mindful and open to what your soul’s medicine is and isn’t this season.
— Lalah Delia

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