Self-love: A Mirror Image of Yourself
Do You Truly Love Yourself? I’m sure most of us are familiar with the saying, ‘...love your neighbour as yourself’. A lot of us make use of it regularly without actually having an understanding of what it is. It’s a beautiful instruction, but often quoted without a true understanding of what it really means. There may be other views on it, but today, I want to share my view with you, and I hope it gets you thinking. Before you go all ‘love your neighbour as yourself’, ask the big question: ‘Do I love myself?’ It is important to ask that because you can’t give what you don’t have. You must love yourself enough to be able to love someone else right. It is the amount of love you have for yourself that will reflect on how you treat yourself and the people around you, just like a mirror image of yourself. What Does Self-love Mean to You? Self-love is beyond feeling ecstatic or having butterflies in one’s tummy. Self-love does not always mean comfort or pleasure; it i...