Day #73

Thursday, August 21, 2025 9:00pm

Dear Reader,

As each day goes by, I am understanding more clearly, what my heart actually sounds like. It’s been so interesting to observe all the different thought pattern’s and connected emotion’s that move in and out of my head throughout the day. It’s been so interesting to reflective and see which of those thought pattern’s I often acted upon. I realize that as frustrating as this journey of change and discovery can be at times, the only way to learn and to clarify and to decide is through experience. Experience is the only true teacher. It is experience, coupled with the ability to reflect and ask yourself the right question’s. It is also, the only time one can practice a new way of being. Everything else, is just word’s. To ground something into reality, is to act on it.

I have had the opportunity to re-define what love mean’s to me and to figure out how to act on it. Perhap’s aligning with your most authentic self is love. It is love, in action. Perhap’s, you cannot surrender to an intuitive path, if you do not know what true, unconditional love is. I think by even deciding to do this series, I was taking an honest step’s toward’s loving myself. Self-love doesn’t always feel like butterflies and roses. Self-love is also, honest. And honesty, can be uncomfortable. However, it is the only foundation that is worth building your life upon. Everything else is just an illusion and therefore, it is temporary.

I am learning to embrace a vision of love that I have had since I was a child. One that incorporates deep connection and vulnerability. One that is nourishing. One that respect’s and honor’s the life of one self, of other’s and of all living thing’s. One that requires presence and appreciation. I have realized that my past experiences had built a wall around my definition of love. I couldn’t see love, clearly. Therefore, I defined it based on what I had experienced. I let other people create my definition of love.

If I had to define love right now, I would say it is nourishing, unconditional and filled with growth and evolution. How that expresses itself is different from person to person and, I think that’s where love can become manipulative and skewed. Especially, if you have never been shown what it means to be unconditionally loved, nourished and supported. I think that’s also why, aligning with your most authentic and intuitive self is important. This is also why, self-love is so important to practice. It is only when we can see ourselves clearly that we choose to nurture our growth, make decision’s that nourish our life and offer other’s the same.

Let this be an encouragement to begin carving an intuitive path for yourself. Otherwise, what’s the point? What if you didn’t come here to follow and copy other’s? What if you specifically came here, to bring to life your most unique expression? What if being your most authentic self was meant to fit perfectly with the whole? You weren’t meant to be like anyone else and, I truly believe that.

Till tomorrow.

Love Always,

Ariel