Self Love
"My heart is open. I choose to experience love every day."
One of the hardest things in the self healing journey is self love. As human beings we're programmed to love and be loved. We all want to be loved by others, it's a nice feeling to have. No one wants to be alone forever. It's nice knowing we're not alone. Being loved by others adds onto our value and shows that we're worthy and are cared for.
As often shown in a society that promotes love as being loved by others when we face rejection or experience any feeling that makes us feel unloved we devalue ourselves. This isn't right and is not true. This just goes to show that those people aren't meant for us.
Love is blinding. The truth of the matter is no one knows what love is, the idea of love that we have is an illusion. We only know of love to the degree we've witnessed and experienced. Sometimes when others show that they love us, we don't know the intention of their love, they may be hiding behind a mask. This is why self love is SO important.
When we practice self love we show others how we desire to be love and treated. It shows others how worthy we are. Instead of having our value be dependent on how others' view us, it is important for us to know how valuable we are. Other people don't know us. No one knows who we are and how loved and valuable we are. The ONLY one who knows all of these is Ourselves. When we practice self love we activate our self awareness. We can easily spot what's right for us and what's not. We can easily spot who's sincere towards us and who's not.
Instead of waiting for others to treat us better, we must, first, treat ourselves better. Instead of waiting for others to choose us, we must, first, choose ourselves. Instead of waiting for others to love us, we must, first, be open to love ourselves.
We must open our hearts to experience the love we are worthy of experiencing and knowing, not the love we grew up knowing that it wasn't meant for us.
Tonight open up yourself to experience the love that's right for you. Everyday, practice loving yourself. Experience how that feels. Everyday open yourself to be loved.
