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Building a foundation of self love and balance
by Laurie Leah Levine, Author of Spiritual Medicine

In this time of uncertainty in the world, my focus is on self love and balance. Without the two we feel even more lost, fearful, angry and out of control. When I talk about self love, I would also like to include self esteem, self image and self worth as a part of self love. They all affect each other. When we do not love ourselves our self esteem and self worth will usually be low. We may also see our self image very differently than other people see us. I know that when I am not loving and accepting my self, I actually feel unworthy of love and I become unhappy with how I look and that seems to get magnified out of proportion.

My book, Spiritual Medicine addresses this very subject and gives hundreds of practical hands on methods to help us feel good about ourselves and feel empowered in our lives.

One of the first steps toward feeling more loving and accepting of ourselves is to notice our self talk.

What do you say to yourself? How much time do you spend being judgmental and critical?

It is much harder to change this pattern until we are conscious and aware of what we say to ourselves and what we are thinking. What we say to ourselves and how we treat ourselves has a direct affect on our self esteem and self worth.

As a way to become more  aware of your patterns, you may want to keep a note pad and for one week write down your thoughts and self talk and see how much is positive and supportive and how much of it is negative and self destructive. As you start to recognize your limiting thoughts, you can change them to something positive any time you want. All it takes is intention, some discipline and lots of practice.

The next important step toward loving ourselves is to forgive. Forgiveness needs to start with ourselves first. Take some time to contemplate all the things from your past that you have not completely forgiven yourself for.

Think about how that has affected your self esteem and your life. I have found that when we do not forgive ourselves it is much harder to enjoy the present moment and we are spending so much of our energy thinking about the past. We cannot move on with our lives until we have forgiven from our hearts and mind.

The next step is to become of aware of how often we give our personal power away to others. One of the ways we can do this is by NOT saying no to someone for fear of their reaction or what they will think of us. So we go ahead and say yes because we do not feel strong enough in our “own skin”. This old behaviour pattern does not help us to feel better about ourselves. It is so important to be true to ourselves and let people know if something does not feel right for us to do. There is always a place for negotiation.

 Finally, start today to treat yourself as you would treat your best friend. If we treated others the way we treat ourselves we would not have many friends. Stay tuned for more tips on building a foundation for self love and balance. I would love to hear from you. What do you do that helps you to feel better about yourself?

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