Loving Our Self { Healthy Love}
This thought came to mind not knowing what to write about to complete my mission for today.
Firstly I'll like to say we as women are caregivers, head of the house hold, a friends, mother, wife's etc.
In our materialistic society, many people confuse self-love and self-nurturing with amassing physical possessions such as a fancy cars, big houses, lots of clothes and so on. How many people do we know who seem to have all the material things yet are depressed and empty inside?
On special occasion our celebration is full of commercials things people encouraging persons to buy all sorts of material things for loved ones, people go on a shopping spree to make sure they have all the material things that they think portrays LOVE. Some even used a special day as a day to called self nurturing, which may may also be excessive consumption of alcohol, overeating junk food or being on the couch potato in front of the television , all of which are injurious to our health and do nothing to nourish us at a spiritual level, where the real need for nurturing lies.
Love of self, love of neighbors, and love of God are the foundational stones of the world's relationship. Spiralling out from the core of our being, our other love are also cobblestone on the spiritual path, love of family, of partner, of friends, of community, of animals, of nature, of country, of things, of hobbies, of work.
Love is not something that you just fall into , as the romantic songs suggest, Love is spiritual practice. You can get better at it over time.
Before we can truly love other, we need to learn to love ourselves unconditionally which for many people can be the most challenging part of there life.
We can be so busy ''loving'' others and ''doing'' for others that we neglect ourselves .How can we truly allow ourselves to be loved by another if we don't even know how to love ourselves first?
Often we are afraid to love us back . We are apprehensive about the quality of our love relationship: are they strong enough, good enough, durable enough? whereas we don't usually question the quality or our acts of kindness. say, we put performance measurement on our loving.
Love and intimacy go together, but if we have been disappointed by love, we worry that intimacy is beyond our reach. We fear that we just lost the ability to feel love, or that we are just not lovable, or that we will be hurt again. Sometimes we even fear that love will change us.
Hearing all this fretful thinking , God the Beloved one prescription over and over: Fear not! I love you.
Let's look at some positive, soul-healing ways to nurture and love yourself: LAUGHT A LOT. Ten minutes of laughter in the morning boosts your immune system, increase productivity and gives you a good attitude, Try it in the shower. while exercising or just about anytime. Laughter uses every muscle in the body and release endorphin's, the happy hormones [see- proverbs 17:22]
HAVE A WARM AROMATHEROPY BATH WITH CANDLES. Add beautiful music, take a good book to read, turn the answering machine on, meditate on ''thing that are true, honorable, right, pure, loving, admirable, excellent and worthy or praise- Philippians 4:8
TAKE YOURSELF TO A BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN NATURE. Walk, sit or just contemplate.
ENJOY GOOD CONVERSATION WITH FRIENDS.
Love is a spiritual practice, We can get better at it over time ..
So my friends lets stop and think of ourselves and give and share our love. Thanks for reading.
''To keep the lamp burning we must keep putting oil in it'' Mother Teresa.
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Philippe Moisan
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Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
Roosevelt, even practice won't work. Only the Lord is able to love unconditionally at all times. We are too weak to remain good at love, it will always be an every day struggle, imho
Roosevelt Evans III
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Home Business Entrepreneur
"Love is not something that you just fall into , as the romantic songs suggest, Love is spiritual practice. You can get better at it over time." Great article on Love, Diane but this statement really stoodout for me. Biblical or "agape" Love is volitional, intentional and as you say "unconditonal" Love that transcends feelings and emotions, a Love that enables us to genuinely Love even our enemy or those who have grieviously hurt us. Such a Love as this demands practice and intent.
Dianne Reid
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Medical Office Assistance
Thanks You Barbara for your comment, all the best .
Barbara DelGiudice
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Owner of Adkreator.com
This is so true Dianne. It is so important to love yourself so you can love others. Barb :)
Dianne Reid
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Medical Office Assistance
My Dear friend Philippe I always have my work on planned but not knowing what to say at the present time is very puzzeling. You know we have Optimism before we put our work out there..
Philippe Moisan
16
Tutorial videos, sci-fi writer
You came up with this piece out of the bluem Dianne? Please let me know when you write a planned article, you are very good, a planned one shall be awesome :)