Part Two: Self-Love, Limbic Resonance & Emotional Healing

​Last week, we talked about limbic resonance and I said that in our next post, I wanted to explore how we could use self-love for the emotional healing that limbic resonance & revision can generate. So, here we go!
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When you engage in self-care or speak kindly to yourself, your brain reinforces a positive loop, making it easier to cultivate self-compassion over time. Practicing self-love doesn’t just improve how you feel—it actually changes how your brain functions.
-Psychology Today

In the last post, I gave you the Gemini AI summary of the video, and thought it would be fun to take that summary and make it visual...

What is Limbic Resonance?

​Limbic resonance refers to the way our emotional brains can connect to and influence one another.

We talked about it in last week’s post, and we were all surprised that loving attention could have such a powerful and positive impact on someone else. 

The video I referenced explained that when we connect with each other emotionally, we can influence each other emotionally. If the connection is a loving one, we can help each other heal.

But what I really want to talk about today is the influence we can have on ourselves with self-love and emotional self-care. ​

The Power of Self-Love

​Self-love is recognizing your own worth, treating yourself with kindness and compassion, prioritizing your own needs, and forgiving yourself when you make a mistake. It also includes setting boundaries with yourself and others when you need to, in order to protect yourself emotionally.

Self-love fosters resilience and helps you build emotional stability, making it easier to navigate difficult situations without becoming completely undone. It strengthens you.

So it’s crucial when life gets messy, as it always does. Can I get an amen?

Self-Love Rituals

Daily self-love rituals can be part of the way you make yourself a priority. They can help you prepare for the day emotionally or help you recover from the day later on.

Here are some simple practices that can help.

Journaling for Emotional Self-Care

Journaling can be a powerful tool for emotional self-care. Setting aside time every day to write about your thoughts and feelings would be a great way to give yourself the loving attention we’re talking about, and that means it could help you heal. Try these prompts.

What shall I celebrate about myself today?
How can I lavish myself with kindness?
What can I do to nurture myself more this week?

In my toolkit, The Fearless Lightworker, the journal prompts can help you identify how you’re feeling about and reacting to the challenges you are facing, including feelings you might be hiding from yourself.

To give you example of hiding your feelings, I often catch myself reflexively saying to myself, “that’s okay,” when actually I am angry or hurt. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to be okay with things that are not okay at all.

Daily Meditation Practices

Meditation can help you connect to your higher self (a higher frequency version of yourself who loves you). It also can help you get calm or return to center when something goes wrong.

Try spending a few minutes each day focusing on your breath. Or try a guided meditation.

For self-love, you might try the loving-kindness meditation. Here, you mentally send compassion to yourself and others.

This practice may help you love yourself and calm yourself more, bridging the gap to limbic resonance.

In my toolkit, The Fearless Lightworker, I have a guided meditation dedicated to helping you remember the truth of who you are, and it helps me love myself more every time I do it.

In fact, I had to record it (and the other meditations) several times until there were no mistakes, and though initially, that was a bit annoying, I felt really connected to my higher self by the time I was done.

Using Crystals like Rose Quartz

Rose quartz would be a perfect crystal for your self-love rituals. It's known as the stone of unconditional love.
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Place it near you, hold it during meditation, or wear it as jewelry to remind you of your commitment to self-love and to feel more of the energy and frequency of love. ​

The Takeaway:
​Self-Love for Emotional Healing

​At its best, limbic resonance can lead to emotional healing. With self-love, you turn that loving attention on yourself.

And self-love can act as a catalyst for healing not just for you but also for those around you. You may find that as you heal yourself, emotional wounds in relationships can begin to heal, too.

And one reason I am emphasizing self-love is that, in the story Deepak Chopra told in the video I shared last week, he basically described how you can heal someone emotionally with loving energy. Well, that’s energy healing.

And those of us who are healers know that you can turn that same healing energy on yourself. The video, and the concept of limbic resonance in general, made it clear that the only tool or technique you need for healing is love.

(Cue the Beatles song)

See you tomorrow!
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Love, Jeanine