what are you doing...to love Yourself..?

Hmm... so if I don't love myself, I should feel ashamed? :P I do take care of personal grooming so that's loving my body. I read extensively so that nourishment for my mind. I dream and blabber to myself so that's preparing my soul. Do I love myself? :PP

i'm learning to let go of all the hurt and pain from the past... letting go of all grudges against everyone.. and removing the people who are likely to hurt me again and again in the future... i'm trying to have more faith in love.. and i'm joining aerobic classes from tomorrow!! they would be a wonderful way to show my body that i do care... :) i'm happy to know that people are realising these vital truths of life, such as loving yourself!! :D

Do I love myself? I really don't know. All I know is that I keep loving people. Be it friends or family members. I do care for my well being. I try to catch up with what's going on in our everyday lives. If I like to improve myself, then I will. Most of my time were spent taking good care of my two little ones. By giving them my attention and love, I'm very certain that they love me back. I noticed though, that I keep doing things for other people. No matter how hard and hurtful it will turn out, I will still continue to do it. Do I love myself then?

"I will just do whatever I want". This, I believe is loving myself. If I love myself, I would not deprive myself of anything, create miseries for myself as a result of not getting what I want. I also know that in order to love, you must first have love. How to love someone if you do not have love yourself. It is difficult, if not impossible to give something which you do not have. However, in order to love, I also must first receive love. It's all so ironical. So, I will stick to loving myself :P

what i am doing to show that "i love myself"? i am just eating ice cream! ciao!

I agree to what you said... We have to love ourselves first before loving other people. It is very fitting to respect yourself so that you learn to respect other people too. When people show respect at you, you feel greatful for that. And i don't think we have to abuse ourselves by distressing, insecurities, self-discouragement, incontentment and envy. Those are hateful things it will never help us to love our self. Just follow the rules, and learn to sort things from good to bad. To love yourself is to respect your own temple.

I find that most people do love themselves,they may not be doing a lot to show that love but when it comes down to it mostly all people love themselves...There is also a saying that "all men are right in their own eyes" that is from the Bible..I do not think that all people respect themselves.I have a son who has spent most of his life in jail or staying in trouble..he has excuses for the things he does (thats loving yourself) but because he knows in his heart that he has done some bad things,he does not respect himself..to me he has low self esteem...The things that i do to love myself: I take very good care of my body,I eat right,I go to the dentist to take very good care of my teeth..I go to the doctor to take care of my health.I am careful with activities that i do not hurt myself.I take care of my hands and feet.I talk positive to myself.I do things that make me happy.I believe in God,I feel like our bodies are Gods temple.I do things to try to improve myself.I try to learn new things,and try to educate myself.Im not sure if this is what you are talking about,but these are things i do because I cherish the body that God has given to me.

I believe that one of the reasons why it's hard for us to love ourselves it's because we still don't know who and what we really are. Have you noticed that you would be surprised to know when people give you comment on your behavior or when they appreciate your wonderful deed, you will then said "really? is this really me? or say something like, I'm not like that! Because it's this and that! Often we wouldn't realize that we still do not know ourselves better. And usually it takes time to know more about ourselves, about our own weaknesses and strengths. Sometimes, we don't even understand our very own self. Since Jesus teaches us to love our ownself first before trying to love others, I believe it's because the Kingdom of Heaven is within us. ANd for us to love ourselves even more, we also have to accept and recognize God in our life. It's true that knowing oneself takes time because it also takes time to know about God. That is why when we learn to love ourselves and also God, everything else follows (e.g love for other people, happiness, contentment, etc. ) I'm sharing this to you because this is what I personally learned about loving myself, God and other people as well. :)

You are so right that people do search for love and they don't realize that is what they are looking for. I feel that is why we have so many addictions to horrible different things. Even food is an addiction and people eat to make themselves feel good about themselves but, it is short term and has to be done regularly in order to maintain that good feeling. True love can be very hard to understand and accomplished even with ones self. I do believe that is the reason we are commanded to love one another as we would love ourself. You do have a great point here about loving your self first in order to find that true happiness and love we all so desperately need. I enjoy helping people, in fact I find it better for me to help as many as I can. Not because I want the fame, just because you have a more longer lasting true feeling from it. Plus I don't want anything in return when I do help, I may tell my husband about it. I don't like to tell to many others though. We are suppose to help and not boast about it, when we do is when it would turn into not so good outcome. We all get things in return. We do get back 3 to 7 folds of what we do weither it would be good or bad. Most people if they knew this would start to think before they did do things in life. Learning our own hearts and what it truly desires is a tricky thing. We all look to outward items for desire when all we really need is so simple in life. I am a very simple person and material things don't matter so much, some are neccassary but, I have all that I need. When we just fill our needs and not wants it does begin to open an all new prospective in life to others. We then have more time to fullfill our inward happiness in life not the outward. :)

I love myself by taking good care of my body, my mind, and my spirit. That means being careful about what goes in...because, as Jesus said, what goes in is what comes out.

i love myself by helping myself. i take care of my body and my health. i share the thing i have to those who need it. loving myself is like loving others. if i can't love myself, then i am not titled to love other's as well right? XP

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yeah.. completely agree on that.. this could probably help.: this is my story in short. i was a very egoistic,self centered,full of pride n etc.. basically a dude nobody liked.. then one fine day i decided to change myself so that i could be accepted by everyone as a friendly humble guy.. well after two years i realised that changing myself for the outer world's acceptance has cost my inborn fire that i had which had played a major role for me being successful academically , now i've changed so much so that i've become a victim of my own actions. I let ppl boss me around , tell me wat to do , what not to do and nobody cares about my opinion anymore. all these would never had happened if i was myself like i was two years ago.. hated by others, but was happy for myself and my parents n family were happy for me .. my girl friend was happy too at that time , not anymore.. so ppl be yourself .. find happiness in wat u are and wat u have..

For me the best way to love yourself is to know yourself more than anyone else. Know your strengths and weakness. Know your goals and dreams in life. Know your likes and dislikes. And most importanly accepting yourself as unique individual endowed with special talents and skills that to be appreciated.

after i finish a hardwork, i will buy a gift for myself or have a big meal if i did something wrong, i will beg myself for a mercy