Learn to love your self
Writing by bwerner on Wednesday, 26 of December , 2007 at 4:15 pm
Love is a multi-faceted concept we as humans are ever trying to understand and express. In our society the concept of love is often limited to images of romance and sexual expression. We tend to focus our ideas of “true” love around the phenomenon of “soul mates” or “love at first sight”, and rarely depict the multi-faceted aspects of the concept of love. Love entails so much more than we often realize. It is a combination of so many powerful aspects of human nature, and isn’t easily defined or labeled as it changes and evolves constantly, just as we do.
It is a popular misconception that we must find things or another person to complete or fulfill us. The truth is the greatest love comes from within, it is a choice in any given moment, and not a condition that has to be acquired, achieved, or manipulated. If we feel we must be loved by others to be whole, then we will never feel complete. Only self-love and all that it entails can provide this. At any time we can choose the many necessary components of this thing we label “love” : acceptance, respect, compassion, nurturing. All of these qualities and many more, are what make us whole when we first learn to give them to ourselves, otherwise we cannot possibly give them fully to others. How can one give what one doesn’t already have? Love is most powerful when it radiates and overflows from within, than when a concept of it is projected outwards. When we work on consciously manifesting love at it’s deepest levels, we find more serenity, a deeper bond with all that is. The result becomes the deepest kind of joy and prosperity.
Focus on all of the components of love. Really look at this concept. What does love mean to you? Many find this hard to answer completely. Identify what you feel is necessary to experience love more fully? When you think of the concept of love what are all the thoughts and feelings that come up?
Try to make a meditation focused on “love”. If you don’t know to meditate go to my site and see about the possibilities to learn it. Through Meditation you get to know your self, it’s not possible to love something if you don’t know it.
If you not love your self, you’re not able to love anyone else.
Category: Personal Development
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