What is Self Love

What is Self Love

In my reality, self love is the greatest gift we have. 

Each human has the opportunity to love the self unconditionally.

Practically, no other love is unconditional other than that of one to self. And as my friends say, no one really know how to love you better than yourself!

To begin with, lets make a few thing clear,

1. Loving yourself does not mean stopping to love any one else. Or being mean to others

2. Loving yourself, does not mean you do not care for others

3. Self love means you care, accept and value yourself unconditionally.

Self-love is the practice of caring for, accepting, and valuing you, unconditionally. It involves recognizing your own worth, acknowledging your strengths and weaknesses, and treating yourself with kindness and compassion. 

Self-love means prioritizing your well-being, setting boundaries, and engaging in activities that nurture your physical, emotional, and mental health. 

It's about understanding that you are inherently deserving of love and respect, regardless of your flaws or imperfections. Embracing self-love can lead to greater happiness, fulfillment, and healthier relationships with yourself and others 

A precursor of self love is self acceptance and giving yourself permission to be. Permission to be, or validation, is one thing we look for all our lives, and who's better to five it to you than yourself? In our next article we will discuss permission to greater detail. For now, lets ponder on the questions below;

• Who give you permission to be whom you are
• Who permits you to choose your career, your spouse, friends, sport or life?
• Who permits you to dress your way? Enjoy beauty your way? Sing, paint, write?

To truly understand self love, we must understand;

•  our needs for Validation and how to self validate
• our needs for connection, awe, love, inspiration, purpose, relations & feeling whole.
•  how the self receives these needs best, keeps them in good balance and self controlled

Self love is the most precious gift we can give and receive. It frees us from dependencies and to highest levels of self expression. Leaving us in a place we can give the best of ourselves to the world, to family, friends, work and life!