Amine moi
Loving me.
Loving yourself is the ability for you to treat yourself with understanding and forgiveness having a recognition of who you are, living it out and note that that experience and the lessons you got from it are part of life.
Have you ever imagined if someone else was the one treating you the way you treat yourself how you would feel. Do you actually love yourself?
Imagine how hard you have been on yourself for not living up to expectation.
How unrealistic you have been by those negative affirmation you tell yourself.
How you fill your thought with negative things about yourself
How you allowed the critic voice to overwhelm you
How you beat yourself so long for mistakes you made.
How you have deprived yourself of certain opportunities through self-damaging behavior and attitude.
How you try or pretend to live out another life just to belong to the society.
How you have made lots of wrong choice simply because you wanted to be applauded.
I repeat again, do you truly love yourself? To what extent do you love yourself?
People tend to do so much to belong at the expense of loving themselves, they make decisions and involve in actions that are detriment to themselves. You must not join or continue with this path, you have to choose a different path just as I told myself. I remember doing things to please people at the expense of my happiness.
Loving yourself is a decision you must decide, no one would make the decision for you. It is going for what you need and not want you want or others want. Man is by default a selfish entity that would want you to do anything to please them regardless of the negative impact or consequences it has on you. They would want you to always please them if you give them the chance.
Loving yourself simply means appreciating yourself regardless of the circumstances. You cannot love others effectively until you love yourself. The standard for loving others is to love them as you love yourself and not more than or less than. Also, you cannot love yourself until you meet with the person of love. Who is the person of love is the question; the person of love is God, it takes you having an encounter with God who is love for you to actually know what love is and how you can love yourself and then love others. It is the ability of you having confidence in yourself and capabilities. It takes one who love themselves to believe in their ability to accomplish their task or goal. Self-love is a journey that will require you to decide, dedicate, devote and also practices so as to give a full-blown of your talents and potentials
How can I love myself despite the mistakes I have made, the circumstance that has happened or is happening around me whether I am responsible for them or not?
The truth is that you are human and prone to make mistakes but the truth about it is that you are not the mistake, you are not the circumstances, you are not the trouble, failure is not who you are. You are who you are. Who you are is what you were created for and those things only help you to become a better version of yourself. This is the first step to actually loving yourself. What is your uniqueness, what were you created to solve, what did God encode you with?
Learn to practice positive affirmation, what you see is what you receive, speak to yourself of who you are and not the mistake or situation. Turn down the volume of the inner critic voice and increase the volume of who you are let it dominate your consciousness. Invest in your development both physically, mentally and spiritually. Let every day become a better version of you. Spend quality time with yourself, don’t always get too busy that you forget yourself. Have time to think, meditate, relax, take yourself out, get yourself a gift, it does not always have to be someone else, make time for leisure, have fun, work, take good food, do exercise, sleep, interact, impact and keep loving who you are. Don’t be intimidated by whom another person is becoming.
Note this, you are the best of your kind, no one can do it better than you, only just keep working on yourself. Set boundaries and principles, say no to things that will deplete or harm you. Protect yourself by allowing into your life only right association, people that would build you and not reduce you. Always learn to forgive yourself for mistakes or circumstances you find yourself.
Make a choice to love yourself today and watch yourself experience blossoms and great potentials unfolds in your life. Loving yourself is an exponential journey. You deserve your love, show yourself that love it longing for.
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ReplyDeleteWow.. this is indeed awesome. I was greatly blessed.
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