The Power of the Love Note
A note of love During Self Esteem Workshops - I have the participants create love notes for each other; words of appreciation for one another. I feel this is so important as it allows the acceptance, the receiving and the gifting of the compliment. It is a practice for a lot of people. At the beginning of the month (it's a 4 evening course over a month), and at the beginning, the women, of course, are new to each other. So they may connect with each other on a superficial level, and this is fine. The writing of the notes is scarce and there are few secretly placed in the envelopes. However as the month moves on and the women connect, as they feel for each other, as they see themselves in the other - as compassion rises -- the love notes increase. The benefit of writing the love notes, the notes of appreciation written during our class are: For the receiver: it is a practice in accepting the gift of the compliment, without dimi...