~ Discovering True Self Love ~

How to Learn to Really Love Yourself .........


Do you love yourself? Can you honestly say that you love everything about yourself without exception? How about your body? When you look in the mirror do you see a beautiful reflection or a marred one? Go ahead, find a full length mirror and stand naked in front of it.


Does the very thought of seeing your own naked body give rise to negative emotions? Or do you feel rather sensuous, even beautiful? What feelings are evoked when you gaze at your body from head to toe? Look into your eyes, what do you see? Joy? Happiness? Maybe sadness, or even fear? What about your hair? Is it shiny and lustrous? Have a good look at your smile, or lack thereof. Does your mouth smile with ease, or is there an effort involved? Now slowly scan the rest of your body from the neck on down. Absorb everything you see, and notice the varied feelings as you truly experience all your various body parts. Be sure to view your body from as many angles as possible. Take as much time as you need. The important thing is that you notice your emotions as your eyes rest upon the different parts of your body.


Truly feel the emotions as they arise within you. Maybe you will feel somewhat sad as you look deep into your own eyes, or you may even sense the real wonder that is you. When you are finished perhaps you might start a personal body journal. Just write down your your feelings for each different body part. Perhaps your hair made you feel beautiful and happy. Write it down. Maybe you felt anger or even disgust at another part of your body. Write that down as well. When you are finished with your body journal you will have a unique collage of your feelings about your own body.


By now I am sure you are wondering what is the point of this exercise? Well, what better place to begin exploring self-love than with our bodies? From a very young age we are conditioned to identify with our bodies, as if our outer shell is really who we are.


We also tend to judge others by what their bodies look like. For instance, how often do we see someone who is obese and immediately make an unfavorable judgment about them? Or how many times have you seen someone you thought was beautiful, and made a favorable judgment about them based solely on their physical appearance? If we are so easily able to pass judgment on others due to their outward appearance, how much more so will we tend to judge our own bodies as well?


One of my favorite authors is a sweet lady named Louise Hay. She once wrote something to the effect that once a person truly begins to love themselves, everything in their life starts to work.


So did you finish the mirror exercise? Did your emotions run the full gamut from joy, sadness, and perhaps even some shame? Or was it all joy? If so, congratulations. You know true self-love and your cup runneth over. If you felt anything other than joy and self-love for your body, please do yourself a favor and go discover Louise Hayes book, 'You Can Heal Your Life.' You can find it here: http://www.louisehay.com/ There is even a new movie out now by the same name and you can discover more about it here: http://www.youcanhealyourlifemovie.com/
I wish you love and joy on your journey to self-love. When you truly love yourself, everything in your life begins to work... Thanks Louise.


(by : MysticRivers)
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