How Do You Love Yourself?

I am starting to love myself.I accepted my flaws and shortcomings.I already accepted the fact that I may not be pretty,but I have a beautiful heart.I started taking care of myself more.I already know want I want in my life.I surround myself with positive people.

i do love myself yes, i have learned to love myself. it has taken me a very long time to learn how to do this. It has taken alot of work from my partner to help me learn how to do it, but now i am much more confident and i love my partner in a different way than what i did before becuas of this.

I dont love myself. That was hard to admit, I started to but I dont know I just dont. I love a couple of things about me but overall not yet.

Good topic.i love myself.i accept myself,though i am still working on my weight.i love the simple,kind and positive me.When i feel depressed or lonely,i buy myself some delicious food or something else.i eat regularly and try to take more physical exercise every week.i try to have enough sleep.And i always remaind myself of being toletate and not punishing myself bacasue of other's faults

Hi Russo, I have to say that this is a good topic. Nowadays people more and more busy, they don't have time to take rest, they don't have time to have fun, they are just too busy about their work to make money and forget about theirselves. To me, i do love myself, and thanks for reminder me about that. How do i love meself, fed myself good!lol,,,serious, because girls always try to keep fit and look pretty, they control themself not to eat much, that is sad.

Yes definitely! I am unique person in God's image and to my parents. I love as what I am now cause I try my very best to please people evryday. I stay humble and calm whatever my achievements got. Im grateful that God gave me like this way I am now.

I think should consider ourselves as a person and tries to look from outside. We should try to forgive ourselves and forget ourselves. We will also try to keep ourselves happy. We should forget our past mistakes and forget all the negative feelings. Yes we really need to let go of the past to be happy and try to live every second of our life.

yes i love myself, in fact i love myself very much. my life goals has always been to be happy. i will do everything within my power to be happy. accepting things i cannot change is a way to be happy. i always tell my colleague that if there is nothing i can do about something, it is pointless to be worried or angry. i spend most of my time doing things that makes me happy. things like reading a good book or having a good meal. thankfully i've never wanted to be rich or famous because then i will have to spend all my energy there.

Dear friend, I just think of my bitter side my family life so on, this could give a sympathetic feeling to my side, moreover those tragic incidence in my life which I faced the way it came. Moreover I believe in God who had did lots of things for me. Actually my blief in God make me love myself.Moreover there of lots of people who had face more worse problems than me, in that cae I am lucky.

Great post! It's wonderful to hear about people who care about themselves "enough". I'm SOOO tired of hearing people who actually *claim* to be martyrs because they do everything for other people at their own expenses. Of course there are certain "sacrifices" that would benefit the spiritual and mental well being of people but physical sacrifice especially that comes from abuse is NOT acceptable in any form. I try to give myself as much luxury without wasting anything (money, time or attention) - small favors for myself like buying the things I want (shopping therapy!) and making sure that I am fit and healthy (going to the gym is a treat for me :D). I like what you said about letting go of the past as a way of loving ourselves. You're absolutely right. I'd like to add that making promises about our future is also a good way to show our love for ourselves - to promise ourselves that we would never let anyone disrespect us in any way. Thanks for the response on my discussion!

When I feel depressed, I eat a lot. (haha!) Seriously, I pamper myself with beauty products, like manicures and pedicures. I go to the coffee shop to have a taste of my favorite coffee. I go to the spa where I have my foot massage. I sleep to rejuvinate my skin cells and when I am fully awakened, I listen to my favorite songs. I always think of happy and positive thoughts and not to indulge in any harmful stuff. And very importantly, I tell myself that I am a child of God, and I am unique...and God loves me so much that I should live each day to the fullest.

having a healthy lifestyle is one of the things that you love yourself. it means that you don't want to get sick and be healthy as ever. loving yourself means, loving someone too, and giving in return.

Yes, I love myself. I'm not perfect, but at least I'm a lot smarter than the people who say or do bad things to me :)

I am agree with the sayings you state above. If you still not know how to love yourself, do you think you have qualified to love others. Under this stagnant enconomic, with huge pressure, maybe we can not change the status in quo, but we can make ourselve happy first, and do what we love, buy something that we eager long time ago,or to relax ourself by travelling. Anything you like, just do it!

I love myself by trying my best to better myself. By this I mean to become a better person, to be able to treat others better, do the things I do better, etc. I always want to know my weak points, my shortcomings and the wrongs I do to others. I then work on these things to become better. Another important thing for me is to be able to forgive myself. To love is to also forgive. I had to forgive myself for my previous mistakes and bad living. I have to forgive myself for things others, and God, has already forgiven me. Sometimes, although we have been forgiven, we do not forgive ourselfs. It is important to forgive yourself, get over it and learn from mistakes. I love myself by trying to look after myself, health, neatness, presentable, etc. If you love some one, you look after them, so i must look after myself. I also love myself in buying gifts for myself.... Love yourself, and many more will love you... Blessings

In order to love oneself, one will first have to find out who one is. Discovering the self is very difficult, but it is possible through meditation. When one goes deep into meditation, one forgets one's false self or ego and thus one goes beyond the ego. Thus one discovers his true self. It is not possible nor is it desirable to love one's false self or ego. But unfortunately, that is what most people are trying to do. That is the reason why people are so miserable.

from the different problems i have been through and have them whole heartedly. i can say i love what i am becoming now than before. i become more mature and love my self more than i could give to others. its better to love ones self first before indulging yourself to others. nice to be open and respectful for the past and the things that have happened, accept the things that have done and let go of the past. thanks friend jhelai

Yes I am absolutely agree with you we have to first love yourself. I have good kind of exp. that the person are not happy with them self his behavior is quite similar with the other person. Being human.