12 Ways You Can Love Yourself Now
I have found that there is only one thing that heals every problem, and that is: to love yourself. When people start to love themselves more each day, it’s amazing how their lives get better. They feel better. They get the jobs they want. They have the money they need. Their relationships either improve, or the negative ones dissolve and new ones begin.
Loving yourself is a wonderful adventure; it’s like learning to fly. Imagine if we all had the power to fly at will? How exciting it would be! Let’s begin to love ourselves now.
Here are 12 Commandments to help you learn how to love yourself:
1. Stop All Criticism
Criticism never changes a thing. Refuse to criticize yourself. Accept yourself exactly as you are. Everybody changes. When you criticize yourself, your changes are negative. When you approve of yourself, your changes are positive.
2. Forgive Yourself
Let the past go. You did the best you could at the time with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge that you had. Now you are growing and changing, and you will live life differently.
3. Don’t Scare Yourself
Stop terrorizing yourself with your thoughts. It’s a dreadful way to live. Find a mental image that gives you pleasure, and immediately switch your scary thought to a pleasure thought.
4. Be Gentle and Kind and Patient
Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself. Be patient with yourself as you learn the new ways of thinking. Treat yourself as you would someone you really loved.
5. Be Kind to Your Mind
Self-hatred is only hating your own thoughts. Don’t hate yourself for having the thoughts. Gently change your thoughts.
6. Praise Yourself
Criticism breaks down the inner spirit. Praise builds it up. Praise yourself as much as you can. Tell yourself how well you are doing with every little thing.
7. Support Yourself
Find ways to support yourself. Reach out to friends and allow them to help you. It is being strong to ask for help when you need it.
8. Be Loving to Your Negatives
Acknowledge that you created them to fulfill a need. Now you are finding new, positive ways to fulfill those needs. So lovingly release the old negative patterns.
9. Take Care of Your Body
Learn about nutrition. What kind of fuel does your body need in order to have optimum energy and vitality? Learn about exercise. What kind of exercise do you enjoy? Cherish and revere the temple you live in.
10. Do Mirror Work
Look into your eyes often. Express this growing sense of love you have for yourself. Forgive yourself while looking into the mirror. Talk to your parents while looking into the mirror. Forgive them, too. At least once a day, say, I love you, I really love you!
11. Love Yourself . . . Do It Now
Don’t wait until you get well, or lose the weight, or get the new job, or find the new relationship. Begin now—and do the best you can.
12. Have Fun
Remember the things that gave you joy as a child. Incorporate them into your life now. Find a way to have fun with everything you do. Let yourself express the joy of living. Smile. Laugh. Rejoice, and the Universe rejoices with you!
Louise L Hay
Igår fick jag ta emot stafettpinnen som morgonens gäst i P4 Dalarna.
Här kan du lyssna till intervjun med mig i Radio Dalarna om att fånga stunden.
Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions,
the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza
When you are in the state of the neutral mind,
the soul is like a chandelier switched on over you.
Communication of the soul is just that light; you are lit up by it.
Yogi Bhajan
Så värmd av de här orden jag fick i dag, känner att de ger mig så mycket. Ska läsa dem om igen och låta de bli till en sanning i mig. Tror att fler med mig skulle må bra av att läsa dem, så jag ger dem vidare… pass it on!
Tänk på att du är en fantastisk människa
och att livets nya guldkorn väntar på att få komma fram
och skapa glädje i ditt liv!
Julia Desmond svarar på frågor och delar sin kunskap (Oneness) om motstånd och acceptans.
Grace fills empty spaces,
but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it,
and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Simone Weil
Jag fortsätter att omfamna mig själv och min process med kärlek. Dagen har jag inlett med en lång och givande fikastund med en vän och avslutat med sinnesrogudstjänst med en annan. Vi tog glad ton i den spontana kören och sjöng Ovan där
Ovan där, randas morgonen
och därhemma samlas helgonen
Vi skall då förtälja om vår resa här
Vi förstår hans vägar bättre ovan där.
Det känns rätt att låta dagarna vara avskalade och enkla med mycket utrymme (så gott det nu familjelivet tillåter) till reflektion och vila. Jag stannar i det ett tag till och boar in mig i mitt.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Rumi