Are you seeing yourself through the eyes of love, today? The Higher Self or the Core is always loving toward the self. Self-judgment, self-criticism, self-demands for perfection, and shame come from the Lower Self and the Mask. The Core disciplines with love. It is never self-punishing.

Take a moment and feel into yourself. Feel into any areas of tension. Find the places where you block the flow of your life force. See if you can find a way to move that energy that is holding back your flow. Try to move it and say "NO". (This tension is your "NO" to life.) Give it a voice that brings it into the light of conscious awareness. Ask yourself, "Why I am blocking here? What am I afraid of?" Perhaps the child in you, fears you cannot handle the full flow of your life force and all the feelings of pain and pleasure that flow with it. Breathe and send love in there with your positive intention. Work it with your practitioner. You don't have to go it alone.