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Do you Love Yourself?
Posted by armywife65 • 1 year ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS]
Topics: Emotions, life, love, people, self help
Do you love yourself? What about yourself do you love?
I do love myself. I love that I am a caring, loving person and I enjoy life even with it's up's and downs.
When I was 16, My uncle said this to me:
If you don't love yourself, how do you expect anyone else to love you either? I have never forgot. So many people don't really love themselves, they are down on themselves, they let others get to them to much, they are cruel ugly people, therefore, making others not love them either.
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I totally love myself.-
I love the rain!
But to each her own! -
I live where it rains more that half of the year. I've seen it rain here for more than a month without stopping.
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That could get tiresome. I lived in San Francisco (and still do about half the time) and it rains there a lot in the winter as well--well not as much recently with the drought. But I do love a rainy day once in awhile!
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Yes, I love myself--but getting there was not easy.
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At least once or twice a day....-
LOL@DrJay--you bad thing you!
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and yet you reject my love at least twice a day...you're so selfish dr.jay
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hatingtherain, you've reminded me of Tori Amos' song 'Winter':
"When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do"?
Not as easy as it seems, but I got there in the end, so yes I do love myself! -
*Snickers @ drjay*
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I love myself a lot, and sometimes as frequently as drjay. >:D -
Yes, I do, unconditionally:-) -
Sometimes love is natural. i do love myself more than i love you -
I believe the key to understanding love is by understanding the author of love, God. The source that we get our definition of love from means everything. We live in a world that revolves around merit and performance. Some people will love only when it benefits them in some material manner. Therefore, friendships are here today and gone tomorrow because they are not built on substance, but measuring up standards.
As the fall and winter sport season rolls around, many people will find new found teams to support and root for, but will they be there when the stands get empty? Will they be there when their team falls into a losing streak? I believe God puts this seesaw behavior into perspective by saying we should love each other, just as we love ourselves. God does not favor one over another based on a laddering merit based system that changes based on emotion.
Consequently, this type of love allows a person to rest in the acceptance of the unconditional love of God that does not change like the wind. God loves what he makes, along with the mistakes, failures, shortcomings and all we make each day -
Yes I love myself. I view self-love as a condition of awareness, a way of perceiving, an attitude, which results in an integrated perception of the world. I believe the art of loving yourself begins with self-acceptance. You begin loving yourself when you stop rejecting yourself, especially on the emotional level. And when you practice self-acceptance of your feelings as they are right now, you will experience real changes in consciousness.
You will no longer try to juggle people or possessions in the external world in order to find fulfillment. You will no longer live a life focused on clinging to attachments and aversions. You no longer look to a big guy in the sky to send in a savior to rescue you from becoming intimately acquainted with your own true nature. You find fulfillment from within, simply by accepting, without acting out, your feelings as they are right now.
Learning how to love yourself is all about empowerment. Once you welcome all your true feelings, you become whole and your life becomes holistic. You experience oneness with others. You no longer compulsively search for oneness in the external world, whether with another person, or with a supernatural being (imaginary friend) in a future life. Instead you begin to experience oneness with all beings because once you can love yourself unconditionally, you become capable of loving others unconditionally too.
(1) accept yourself for who you are and learn to love yourself for whom you are a person;
(2) accept your feelings and examine them closely so you can understand yourself mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually
(3) learn to direct your mind, body and emotions;
(4) strengthen your inner self and begin changing what you do not like about yourself;
(5) witness the change in your self-esteem and self-confidence levels and celebrate your progress;
(6) allow yourself to accept and others exactly as they are;
(7) seek common ground but always celebrate differences.
copyright timethief 2008-
[timethief]
you seem to always say the right thing...at least i think so, you write very well. you usually take the words right out of my mouth...lol -
The weird thing was that I was writing a post on this subject and then you posted a thread on the very same thing. Great minds, eh?
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i used to, but my carpal tunnel syndrome makes it pretty tough lately.
guess i overdid it.-
I'm sorry to hear about the carpal tunnel syndrome. Take care of yourself.
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i don't have CTS, it was just a bad masturbation joke! -
lol...yeah i caught on to that one, heard it before...lol
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I love myself as well! -
I believe we all love ourselves but some of us absolute adore ourselves. It is natural that we love ourselves but it becomes a problem when we adore ourselves and think only about ourselves.
For years I adored myself and especially concerning women I thought only about myself and my pleasure. I am thankful that I woke up one day to how terrible of a person I was and made the decision to change. Today although I love myself I consider others above myself.-
yeah, i had a friend years ago, that was absolutely beautiful and well she knew it, so much that she would constantly look in the mirrior....even while driving....drove me crazy, better crazy than in a tree I guess. she would have the mirror adjusted just so, couldn't see who was behind her, but hey, police always say "don't mind who is behind you just pay attention to who is in front of you" anyway...
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No... the problem is we DO love ourselves! So much so, we don't want anyone raining on our party... -
I like me. Me is great. But, I also realize that because I like myself, I can treat people like I treat myself which is pretty good.
It is much easier to follow the golden rule if you treat yourself well.
Because I like myself as well, I can be thick skinned and not worry about whether people hate me. -
You can't love others unless you can learn to love yourself.
Also, I swear to Elrond Hubber if you rain on my parade creemos I will accost you, as is my want. -
I love myself, yes, even though I sometimes find myself rather irritating.
But it is very true what your grand father said to you, it has a great effect on other people the way you see yourself. -
I am not sure about loving myself, I don't really think about it too much.
But, I quite like me, I reckon I am an ok sort of person most of the time...except right now because because I have a rotten cold so I am unusually grumpy! -
yea i do -
it is impossible not to love oneself, for if someone hates himself so badly that person ceases to live.
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