Loving Yourself

If you follow various spiritual healers, they say we need to love ourselves. Well, what does that mean? I have been reflecting on that lately. What I feel it means is that we treat ourselves with compassion when we make a mistake, realizing that we are still learning and not to condemn ourselves for the mistake. Also, we need to speak kind words to ourselves. Do not let the past be the rule book we live our lives on. Those were just experiences, based on the interaction with parents, teachers, ministers, other adults, bosses, and the beliefs these other individuals projected onto you. When you talk negative talk to yourself, stop, ask who did I learn this from? Is it true about me? NO! Begin to let go of those negative thoughts, replacing them with empowering, loving, compassionate thoughts about yourself. Be patient with yourself as this will take time. You will slip back into old patterns yet over time the new patterns will become more and more. Here is to being your best empowered loving self.