Self-love is important not only because it increases the quality of life, but because only from such a position can we truly love others. With all being!
Loving yourself is quite difficult - many times we think we are not good enough the way we are, and we long to be able to transformed into someone else. In extreme cases, severe self-esteem even leads to narcissism, which acts as a defense mechanism against threatening feelings, that we are bad.
Why is it so important to love OURSELVES?
Without self-love, life is much HARDER. If we constantly compare ourselves to others, feel as if we are not good enough, and tell ourselves that we should be different, this lowers our self-esteem, pit increases the stress level and makes it difficult for us to developed in the desired direction. In part, these feelings are "normal" and everyone experiences them faced in different periods of life. And they are exactly here to encourage us to start BETTER take care of yourself. Only if we lose, we can win!
Sometimes the situation becomes destructive when you have horrible thoughts occur too often and it is hatred towards ourselves buried deep within us. This is the time when we have to start dealing with it and try to establish a gentler relationship with ourselves.
The first step is to find out where does the lack of love come from. It's often about bad experiences in the past, which we have to face sooner or later. We have to face the things we do we are ashamed of ourselves and unhealed wounds.
A wound on the soul is like a wound on a living body - if it doesn't heal, it will hurt us every time we start digging into it. And we won't be able to move on. She will always hinder us.
