A JOURNEY TO SELF LOVE...

 

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

For some of us, this itself feels like a life’s work, just to accept and love yourself. It sounds so simple, if you love yourself all those wonderful things that lie waiting for you come rushing in and things get better and better, ‘The universe knows these things...’ they say... The actual journey to self-love, especially if you are coming from a place far from that acceptance, can be long and feel difficult, but with a few key pointers we can all learn to appreciate and love ourselves.

My journey to self-love has a been a long and traitorous one … As a child I was very confident, confident in my personality and my talents to take me where I needed to go, confident in my deepest friendships, most of which are still my closest friends today. The world was exciting and opening up. This slowly changed as I entered my twenties and life got harder and harder. Setbacks, confidence bashings, bad relationships, money lessons, though there was a lot of fun, dancing and friendships in between, moving countries, countless adventures and experiences, meeting amazing souls and different cultures, then when I did finally decide to return home, I left a huge part of my life, my identity and independence and started to develop very sudden anxiety. I forgot one really key lesson and that was to know and love myself.

So, I decided it was better to deal with it now rather than later when my body will change more, my skin will wrinkle and it all might feel harder to grasp!

‘How do I love myself?’

We all know - in our deepest self - that in order to experience a happy and fulfilled life, we must first have love and compassion for oneself. All the spiritual teachings encourage us to look inside and find self-love. We go on quests and journey afar because we yearn to know ourselves truly and deeply, or perhaps we try to fill that gap with other means.

It takes a lot of guts to take a look at yourself, your whole self and ask what is really going on? Be it loneliness, neglect…  ‘I feel pain, I feel hurt, lost, anxious.’ But that open conversation is the best thing we can do for ourselves - to go to those places unexplored…




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