Do You Love Yourself?
‘Dare to love yourself as if you were the rainbow with gold at both ends.’ - Aberjhani
Feeling unloved, unwanted, rejected, abandoned or lonely is all highly stressful. In extreme cases traumatic and depressing too. I think we’ve all experienced a degree of this at some point in our lives.
Perhaps for some, self-acceptance is difficult too… as Carl Jung aptly said, “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
Some people erroneously think that loving one’s self is akin to being selfish, self centred, self absorbed, self obsessed or even narcissistic. I strongly disagree - loving yourself is essential to living a happy, healthy and fulfilling lifestyle - it’s the difference between existing versus thriving!
If you cannot love yourself, how can you possibly love anyone else deeply and truly?
Don’t be confused by a ‘needy or obsessive’ kind of love - that’s a fear-based love, and one of desperation, instead of the kind of love that is expansive and unconditional.
If you don’t love yourself, how can you respect yourself or set appropriate boundaries?
By not loving yourself you’ll always feel inadequate or not quite good enough. By not loving yourself, you’ll never fully trust another. By loving yourself you naturally step into your own innate personal power … yes, loving yourself is where true love actually begins.
This kind of true love is also akin to ‘Man Know Thy Self’, and the axiom, “as a man thinketh in his heart so it is unto him”.
Your capacity to love others all comes down to how much you love yourself… like a mirror reflection, ‘as within, so it is on the outside’.
We can only give to others what we have inside, and if that reservoir is empty, we feel empty, sad, depressed and lonely. The more self love you have, the greater capacity you’ll have for love, kindness, compassion, empathy, etc. towards others.
It is said, love is the most powerful force in the entire Universe - love dissolves everything, including hatred, jealousy and envy.
Love is also of the highest vibrational energy… we’ve all heard the saying, ‘love makes the world go round!’ And, without doubt, love is also the most potent creative force and magnetic attraction energy too, which is why living in a state of gratitude manifests your heart’s desires.
Together, love and gratitude are the two secret ingredients to living a successful life. This has been taught by many great saints and sages over eons, including modern teachers like Rhonda Byrne, John Assaraf, Mike Dooley, Michael Beckworth, the late Wayne Dyer, Lisa Nichols, etc.
I love the idea that “Me” is the inversion of “We” - so the more I love “Me”, the more capacity for love I have for “We”, the collective i.e. humanity, the planet and all sentient beings who dwell here.
I firmly believe that if more of us loved ourselves, world peace would become automatic.
And, I totally BELIEVE with all my heart that WE have the power to completely change the current masculine or patriarchal fear-based and scarcity status quo of the world’s misery, poverty, war, greed, disease etc.
Love is an abundant and infinite energy, which can so easily transmute all fears, scarcity and lack.
Let’s LOVE and spread LOVE, like fairy dust, everywhere WE go!
Today, I’m sharing a POWERFUL and PROFOUND video by one of my greatest teachers, the late Louise L. Hay. She truly impacted my life in the early 90’s with her books, “You can Heal your Life” and the little blue book, “Heal Your Body”.
Enjoy the tips Louise L. Hay shares in the video below… your life will completely change as a result of Loving Yourself.
Shower yourself with loving kindness and self care, and sprinkle this love everywhere you go!
Blessings always!
