Self-Love
What is self-love?
Self-love is unconditional love.
Unconditional love means love without resistance to what is.
It is another word for happiness, because in this context, happiness is simply: the experience of no resistance to what is.
Unconditional love is:
- Pure recognition without judgment.
- Pure perception without judgment.
Self-love radiates from your heart and forms the heart of your being. It is self-recognition, self-respect, self-appreciation, and self-acceptance – without judgment, censorship, or limitations.
Self-love encompasses ALL parts of yourself. This means love for every part of your personality, every thought process, and every emotion or sensation you experience.
The Here and Now
You are the Here and Now. You are always here and now.
It doesn’t matter where you are, because it is always “here.” And it doesn’t matter when, because it is always “now.”
This core of who you are – your authentic “I” – resides in the Here and Now. The different parts of your personality are like uniforms you temporarily put on in different situations.
You are like a 3D screen on which these parts of your personality appear. They are temporary events within your system (body/mind). They come and go, while the core of who you are always remains. This core does not change, as it is the perceiver of all changes.
The Perceiver
This perceiver is what we call: “I.”
This is the neutral “I,” which can freely “dress up” with different parts of the personality, just as a screen fills itself with images.
Self-love connects everything in your system, just as a screen holds all the images together. Without the screen, there are no images. Similarly, without self-love – or the neutral I – there would be no parts of the personality or experiences.
Self-Love as the Sun
Self-love radiates, shines, and sparkles from the heart of your being.
Just like the sun, self-love always shines, without ceasing. Sometimes it seems as though the sun is gone because clouds block it, but the sun is always there.
The clouds symbolize mental suggestions, beliefs, or blockages that temporarily obscure your love for yourself. Think, for example, of thoughts like: “I have no self-love” or “I don’t love myself.”
But realize: it is only a thought suggesting that. You are not that thought. A thought says: “I,” but it is referring to itself – the thought, not to you as the perceiver.
Thoughts and Perspectives
Thoughts come and go. You observe this coming and going.
What a thought suggests seems true from that specific perspective. But every perspective is a limited truth. This means that other perspectives can be just as true.
Your perspective determines your truth. And your truth is your hypnosis.
A thought that says self-love is gone is merely an idea that blocks self-love – just as a cloud seems to block the sun. But the sun always shines.
Self-Love and the Ego
If you think:
“I have no self-love” or “I don’t love myself,”
realize that this comes from the mind. Only the mind would say such a thing, because it is a mental idea of who you think you should be.
This mental idea is what we call the ego. The ego is nothing more than a thought. It is the belief in separation: a thought that says, “I am a person. This is who I am.”
But you are so much more than a thought, an idea, or a person!
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Self-Love and Conditional Love
The Drop and the Ocean
Self-love is like a drop of water realizing it is part of the ocean.
Although it seems temporarily separate, it is never truly apart from the whole.
Self-love, your heart, would never say:
“I have no self-love” or “I don’t love myself.”
Self-love is the core of what you are.
You cannot have or lose self-love, because self-love is what you are.
Conditional Love
The Head: The Masculine Energy. The Ego
Conditional love speaks from the mind and says:
“If you do what I like, what I find good or acceptable, I will love you. If you don’t, I won’t love you.”
This is the voice of the ego – a mental construct created by your thinking.
The ego lives in duality, as it suggests separation. Therefore, it can only give love under conditions.
The ego exists in the world of the mind, a world of past and future. It is a suggestion of who you think you are, a projection of an imaginary “I” that is never truly in the Here and Now.
The Nature of the Ego
The ego is:
- Tense, focused, goal-oriented, logical, rational.
- Comparable to a software program running in your brain.
Although the ego is not what you truly are, it does have its value. When applied at the right moment, the ego can be powerful and functional.
The ego represents masculine energy:
- Critical thinking, structured goals, and solution-oriented approaches.
- But also a limited, tense focus, trapped in self-created mental structures.
Everyone experiences the ego, regardless of gender, because we all carry both masculine and feminine energy within us.
The ego/intellect only develops later in life, after the primal brain (survival) and the emotional brain (feelings) have formed.
The ego, therefore, arrives last to the party of your life.
Emotions: The Feminine Energy
The Body and Emotions
Emotions arise in the body as reflections of the meaning you assign to thoughts. The mind often judges these emotions as “good” or “bad,” depending on how comfortable or uncomfortable they feel.
Characteristics of Emotions
- Feminine energy: Connection, flow, and expression without judgment.
- Often irrational and illogical from the perspective of the ego.
Emotions want only one thing:
To be respected and acknowledged, without judgment.
When this happens, emotions flow through your body and disappear on their own.
However, if emotions are judged as “wrong” or “negative,” this creates resistance. As a result, (metaphorically speaking) emotions become ‘stuck in your body’ – a blockage that can only dissolve by acknowledging them as they are.
Emotions are energy in motion:
Emotion = Energy in motion.
Self-Love (Unconditional Love)
The Heart: Unconditional Love
Unconditional love says:
“Whatever you do, I love you.”
This is the voice of your heart, the heart of your being. The heart lives in non-duality and radiates love without conditions.
The Qualities of the Heart:
- No boundaries or structures; it is purely energetic.
- Lives in the Here and Now, never in an imaginary future or past.
- Radiates relaxed, unlimited energy and says: “It’s allowed, but it’s not compulsory.”
The heart is what you truly are. It represents your I am – neutral, transparent, and free.
Sometimes self-love seems hidden by mental structures the ego builds around your heart. This can trigger thoughts like:
“I have no self-love.”
But just as clouds cannot truly block the sun, the ego cannot truly take away your self-love. Once the mental clouds disappear, you realize again that self-love always shines within you.
Self-Love: Unconditional Love for What Is
Self-love is unconditional love. It is always open to giving and receiving love, to connecting and being empathetic.
When you love yourself unconditionally, it becomes natural to love others as well.
It works like an inner light that radiates outward. Conversely, if you do not love yourself unconditionally, it becomes difficult to truly love others, because unconditional love always comes from within.
The Perspective of Self-Love
From the perspective of self-love, there is only one “I” or “Self.”
There is no separation; all separations are imaginary and arise in the mind.
Self-love does not live in the dualistic dream world of the mind, which creates rules, structures, and limitations. It lives freely, without boundaries, in the Here and Now.
The energy of self-love is focused on:
- Helping,
- Healing,
- Relieving pain with respect and forgiveness.
Forgiveness is essential here:
Forgiveness is not the same as approval.
It is the act of letting go of the past so that you can be free and happy in the Here and Now.
Want to know more about forgiveness? Click here: The Power and Magic of Forgiveness
The Opposite of Self-Love: Self-Rejection
Self-rejection arises in the mind. It is a mental act of rejecting or denying certain parts of yourself. Self-love, on the other hand, embraces ALL parts of you – without exception, without judgment.
Your heart understands that no one is perfect and that making mistakes is part of being human. However, it also recognizes your deepest core: an infinite energy and unlimited potential. In this core, you are already perfect, exactly as you are.
What is Self-Love?
Self-love is the unconditional acceptance of everything you are, including:
- Your positive quality’s, successes, and skills.
- But also your shortcomings, failures, and mistakes.
It’s not about approving all your actions, but about recognizing that even your imperfections are a valuable part of who you are.
You can think of self-love as:
- Your Heart,
- Your Soul,
- Your True Self,
- Or even God – depending on your beliefs.
Whatever you call it, it’s always about recognizing the essence behind the label.
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Self-Love vs. Narcissism
Self-love and narcissism may sometimes appear similar on the surface, but they differ fundamentally in their origin and impact.
Self-Love
Self-love radiates from a healthy sense of self-worth and inner balance. It includes:
- Healthy self-esteem, based on acceptance.
- Respect for the free will of both yourself and others.
- A deep sense of joy and fulfillment.
- Humility, combined with the ability to enjoy time alone.
- Freedom from the opinions of others – inner knowing takes the lead.
- Confidence, without arrogance.
- Empathy and understanding for others.
- The ability to empower and support others.
Self-love connects you to your heart, where acceptance and respect are central, both for yourself and for the world around you.
Narcissism
Narcissism, on the other hand, is rooted in insecurity, with a false sense of self-worth that constantly seeks validation from external sources. It manifests as:
- A false sense of high self-regard, masking inner insecurity.
- The need to control or dominate others.
- A mindset where nothing is ever good enough, for oneself or others.
- A grandiose view of oneself, with little room for self-reflection.
- Constantly needing people to feel worthy.
- Excessive concern about what others think.
- Outwardly charming, but deeply insecure inside.
- Manipulating and being insensitive to others.
- Putting others down to feel better about oneself.
Narcissism stems from a lack of self-love. The ego tries to overcompensate by convincing others of an allegedly higher value.
The Power of Self-Love
Self-love is powerful because it doesn’t create dependency. You are content with yourself, accept your imperfections, and live in harmony with who you are. Narcissism, on the other hand, creates a constant struggle for validation and control, leading to inner turmoil and tension in relationships.
By embracing self-love, you not only strengthen yourself but also deepen your connection with others. It is the foundation for a peaceful and fulfilling life.
Recognizing True Self-Love
When you truly feel and recognize self-love, you don’t need to prove it to others. You know and feel it, deep within.
Self-love frees you from the opinions of others because you accept yourself without judgment, without censorship, without limitation.
This doesn’t mean you approve of everything you do. Making mistakes is part of life. It’s about accepting your mistakes as part of who you are, because you understand that learning and living are inseparable.
A Selfish Statement vs. Self-Love
The ego says:
“You must do what I want, or else you’re selfish.”
Self-love says:
“I respect your choice and follow my own path with love and respect.”
When you live in your heart instead of your head, the ego loses its power. It can no longer manipulate you with guilt or emotional blackmail.
Self-love and the ego are often at odds, but they don’t have to be in conflict. When the ego serves the heart, it can be a valuable ally.
The Difference Between Ego and Heart
A typical selfish statement is:
“You MUST do what I want, or else YOU are selfish.”
This sentence contradicts itself. It’s an attempt to make someone obey through emotional blackmail. Only the ego would say something like this, because the ego often wants to control, manipulate, and dictate.
The Ego says: “Must”
The ego forces and makes demands:
“You must do what I want, or else you’re selfish.”
The Heart says: “Can”
The heart invites and respects free will:
“You can do what I want, but you don’t have to.”
Do you feel the difference between these two statements? The ego tries to exert control, while the heart gives space and accepts.
Recognizing the Voice of the Ego
If you follow your heart and the ego – whether your own or someone else’s – says you’re selfish because you’re not doing what the ego wants, you can recognize this as manipulation. It’s trying to force you through emotional blackmail.
Don’t be misled. Live from your heart and act from unconditional love – for yourself and for others – with respect and acceptance for what is.
Because being yourself is not selfish. Being yourself is self-love!
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Pure Awareness: Your True Self
Realize that you are more than your thoughts, emotions, or even your heart. You are the pure awareness in which everything appears, happens, and disappears.
This means you are not your intellect, nor are you your heart. You are the conscious, silent space in which intellect and heart appear. This space can also be described as:
- Pure Awareness
- Pure Consciousness
- Pure Presence
- The “Here and Now Self”
Awareness and Identification
Awareness has the ability to identify with what it observes. You could compare it to a 3D screen that is aware of what appears on it. Sometimes those appearances are your intellect or your heart.
Where do you reside in your system?
- In your head? Then you are identified with your intellect and often live in an imagined past or a projected future. This often causes restlessness.
- In your heart? Then you are identified with the feeling “I am” and live in the here and now, with an underlying sense of peace.
- In the silent space? Then you are identified with pure awareness. You recognize that your heart, intellect, and events like peace or restlessness appear within you, but you are not attached to them.
The Source of Everything
The ‘closer’ you ‘stay’ to the source, the more you experience its qualities:
- Happiness
- Peace
- Well-being
- Connection
- Harmony
- Freedom
The source is often imagined as a point somewhere in the silent space, but in reality, the source is the silent space itself. The source is everywhere, always omnipresent.
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The Qualities of Silence and Space
Silence and space share the same qualities as the source. They are free, open, boundless, and always available. Consider this for a moment:
- Silence is calming and connecting.
- Space provides freedom and possibilities.
Living from these qualities means being connected to the source, yourself, and the world around you.
The Silence
Where does silence begin, and where does silence end?
Where are the edges of silence?
Have you ever observed the edges of silence?
Silence is like a blank sheet of paper without edges, on which words or sounds are written or drawn. Silence never truly disappears; it is only temporarily covered by sounds that come and go.
Silence has unconditional love for all the sounds that appear within it. It doesn’t matter whether a sound is soft or loud, beautiful or ugly, pleasant or unpleasant. Silence does not judge and has no preferences. Everything is allowed to be.
Just as a blank sheet of paper has no judgment about the text or drawings that appear on it, silence remains neutral and transparent. It regards all sounds as equal.
Silence, therefore, shares the same qualities as the source:
- Happiness
- Peace
- Well-being
- Connection
- Harmony
- Freedom
The Space
Where does space begin, and where does space end?
Where are the edges of space?
Have you ever observed the edges of space?
We often think of different spaces, such as living space or workspace. But in reality, there is only one space, with many imaginary divisions.
Space is space. What this means is that the quality of space is the same everywhere. There is only one space in which all activities take place.
Space is like a 3D holographic screen without edges, on or within which various temporary forms appear, happen, and disappear. It is not just a screen for images; it is an event screen, where everything we experience – sounds, smells, tastes, thoughts, emotions – appears.
Space has unconditional love for all events that appear within it. It doesn’t matter whether an event is beautiful or ugly, pleasant or unpleasant, beneficial or harmful. Space does not judge and has no preferences. Everything is allowed to be.
Just as a screen has no judgment about the images that appear on it, space remains neutral and transparent. It regards all events as equal.
Space, therefore, shares the same qualities as the source:
- Happiness and freedom, because there are no limitations.
- Peace and harmony, because there are no problems.
- Well-being and connection, because space is indestructible and always whole.
Silence and Space Are Indestructible
Just as a screen is not damaged by what is shown on it, the silent space cannot be harmed by what appears within it. For example:
- During a movie about a forest fire, the screen does not get hot.
- During a movie about a tsunami, the screen does not get wet.
The same is true for the movie of your life: no matter what happens, the silent space of the here and now always remains undamaged and complete.
The Silent Space of the Here and Now
Because silence and space never disappear, we can merge them into “the silent space of the here and now.”
Where is “here“? It is where everything happens.
When does everything happen? “Now,” of course.
The silent space of the here and now is a constant in our lives. This is where self-love resides, because the silent space has unconditional love for everything that appears, happens, and disappears.
Self-love is therefore the same as the silent space of the here and now. They are both love without judgment, without resistance, and without censorship.
The Connection Between Heart and Silence
The silent space is impersonal. There is no personal “I” to be found, only an impersonal presence – a pure “I Am.”
You can think of your heart as the focal point of this presence, an energy center within the silent space. It is the natural gateway between the impersonal I and the personal I.
The more you focus your attention on the here and now, the more you feel and experience the qualities of self-love. In this way, you reconnect your life energy to the source.
Non-Duality and Self-Love
From the perspective of your heart, there are no opposites such as positive or negative. There is only “what is.”
- So-called negative emotions are felt just as fully as positive ones.
- Your heart lives in non-duality, where everything is accepted as it is.
Negative and positive ideas exist only in your thoughts, in your imagination. This is duality and leads to conditional love. But your heart lives in non-duality and radiates unconditional love – for yourself, for others, and for everything that is.
Self-love is therefore love without conditions: a deep acceptance of “what is.”
Our Intellect and Mental Identity
Our intellect creates a mental identity by embracing certain parts of our personality while excluding others. This often happens through past experiences where judgments were made about our behavior.
When we cannot accept that judgment, a mental separation occurs: a part of ourselves is rejected or ignored.
For example:
- I feel angry, but my identity says I am a calm person.
- I feel insecure, but my mental idea is that I am always strong and confident.
This inner conflict creates a gap, a lack of acceptance, and sometimes even a sense of insufficient self-love.
Self-Love and Judgment
When someone experiences a lack of self-love, it is often based on mental beliefs formed by past experiences. Perhaps you made mistakes or were criticized, leading you to believe that you are not good enough.
However, these judgments do not come from your heart, where unconditional love resides, but from your mind.
Self-love is free from judgment. It does not judge what you feel or do but accepts everything as it is.
How Emotions Work: “Energy in Motion“
The word emotion literally means energy in motion. To understand this, you can imagine your body as a clear, transparent container. Surrounding this container is formless energy, which can take on a temporary form – an emotion – through events or thoughts.
When something happens in your life, an emotion arises as a reaction to the meaning your mind assigns to the event. It doesn’t matter whether that story is a memory, a future scenario, or something happening here and now. The emotion is simply a reflection in your body of the meaning you give to that story.
Examples:
- If you think: I’ve lost something valuable, you feel sadness.
- If you think: I’ve won something beautiful, you feel joy.
The emotion communicates with your intellect about how you feel. All that is needed is for you to acknowledge and accept this message. When you do, the emotion can flow freely again – as it is meant to, as energy in motion.
Emotional Blockages
Problems arise when an emotion is judged by your mind as negative or undesirable. If you do not accept this emotion, it becomes blocked and remains ‘stuck in your body’ (metaphorically speaking).
This is called a subconscious blockage. The result? The emotion cannot leave and lingers in your system, waiting to be honestly expressed.
Suppressing an emotion can be harmful to your well-being, both physically and mentally. It’s like inflating a balloon without letting the air out. Eventually, the pressure becomes too great.
Mental Defense Mechanisms
When emotions feel too uncomfortable, the intellect tries to ‘protect‘ us with mental defense mechanisms. These can manifest in various behaviors, such as:
- Seeking distraction: alcohol, smoking, eating, watching TV, working, exercising.
- Avoidance: suppressing emotions or numbing yourself.
Ironically, these mechanisms hold on to what they are trying to avoid. By repeatedly blocking an emotion, it remains stuck and grows stronger. Eventually, it becomes impossible to ignore the emotion, and it may manifest as physical complaints, stress, or emotional outbursts.
The Path to Liberation: Acknowledging Emotions
The key to healing is simple: acknowledge the emotion and allow it to be.
By feeling and accepting an emotion without judgment, you give it permission to flow and release. This is the natural movement of energy. Instead of blocking or fighting the emotion, you can recognize it as a messenger trying to tell you something about your inner world.
This process requires courage and self-love. But by allowing your emotions, you free yourself from the blockages that hold you back and restore balance and peace within yourself.
An Emotion Is Neither Good Nor Bad
The intellect, which creates defense mechanisms, may label uncomfortable emotions as “bad” or “wrong,” forbidding you to feel them.
From the perspective of your intellect, an uncomfortable emotion is a “problem” that needs a “solution.” From the perspective of your heart, however, an emotion is a signal asking for attention – an honest communication about your inner state.
The “solution” the intellect seeks often takes the form of a defense mechanism: an activity that temporarily makes you feel better or distracts you from the uncomfortable feeling. While this mechanism is intended to help, it often backfires in the long term.
When an activity successfully distracts or soothes you, it becomes a repeated behavior. Over time, this behavior becomes automatic and activates itself whenever an uncomfortable feeling arises. At this point, the defense mechanism has become part of your automatic programming – a “habit” or even an “addiction.”
This leads to inner conflict: The emotion wants to express itself, but it is continually blocked by the defense mechanism. People often experience this as a loss of control over their own behavior. You want to stop the behavior but don’t know how.
Taking Back Control
To take back control, you need to take responsibility for your automatic programming and become the authority and captain of your own system.
Mental Authorities and the Origin of Conditioning
As a child, you were dependent on parents or guardians as the authority figures in your life.
They taught you what was “right” and “wrong,” including which emotions were acceptable and which were not.
For example, if you grew up in a family where crying was not allowed because it was seen as “weak,” your subconscious learned that sadness is a “bad” emotion.
This conditioning is a form of mental programming that your subconscious stores as truth. It happens as part of a survival instinct: obedience to authority is essential to avoid rejection—and, in a child’s mind, potential “death.”
The result is a mental censorship that categorizes emotions into “good” (such as happiness, love, gratitude) and “bad” (such as sadness, anger, shame). The “bad” emotions are hidden, while the “good” emotions are allowed to be expressed.
Later in life, the intellect takes over this role of parental authority. Imaginary parents live on in your mind, judging how you are “supposed” to feel.
This creates a disconnect between what you feel and what you think.
For example:
- The mind says, “You’re not allowed to feel sad,” but you do feel sad.
- The mind cannot stop the emotion but blocks and hides the feeling because it has learned that some emotions are not acceptable.
Conditional Love vs. Unconditional Love
This process is what I call conditional love:
“You are allowed to be, but only if you meet certain conditions.”
In contrast, unconditional love says:
“You are allowed to be exactly as you are, without needing to change.”
Conditional love stems from mental structures and rules.
Unconditional love comes from your heart and is unlimited by mental restrictions.
- Your heart IS unconditional love.
- Your mind IS conditional love.
Triggers and Suppressed Emotions
Emotions that have been suppressed for years can build up and later demand to be released. This process is often triggered by situations in daily life where you react disproportionately without fully understanding why.
Triggers are signals that emotions are “locked away” and ready to be released and healed. This healing happens by accepting and feeling these emotions with unconditional love, without judging or blocking them.
Your Mental Authorities Living in Your Subconscious
The problem is that you often still have one or two mental authorities in your head, created by the authority figures (parents or guardians) in your life. These thought patterns, stored in your subconscious, subconsciously dictate what you are and are not allowed to feel. They still operate according to the programming you received as a child.
It’s as if the authority of your parents still influences you, even long after you’ve left the nest. I call these “mental parents.” Until you are willing to take responsibility for and assume the role of these authorities, they will continue to influence your life.
Sometimes this goes so far that you end up living their life instead of your own. Why? Because, consciously or unconsciously, you are still trying to please your mental parents by rejecting certain emotions and allowing others. And by following the automatic programming in your mind instead of ’the voice’ of your heart.
The Difference Between Your Heart and Your Automatic Programming
- Your heart is your authentic self and lives in the here and now.
- Your automatic programming is your mental, imaginary self and lives in the past or the future.
It is therefore essential to take full responsibility for your automatic programming. When you adjust it to align with what your heart wants, the real magic happens in your life. Your heart and your automatic programming come into alignment, and you experience inner harmony instead of conflict. You then live your own life instead of the life of your mental parents.
Conditional love is not your parents’ fault
It’s important to understand that the situation of conditional love and its impact on your emotions is not your parents’ or guardians’ fault.
They did their best with what they knew and had, even if that didn’t always work out well for you.
Sometimes, you get parents who positively encourage you, give you space to make mistakes and learn from them, support you in difficult times, and help you grow into a happy, independent, and resourceful person.
But parents are also human, with their own limitations and flaws. That’s why it’s inevitable that some emotions were allowed, while others were not.
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YOU can give yourself unconditional love NOW
The most important difference is that now, as an adult, you can give your own emotions unconditional love.
Let me emphasize this:
When you are old enough to take care of yourself, you can give your emotions unconditional love.
You no longer need to hide or reject your emotions. The uncomfortable emotions you feel now are often younger versions of yourself. By giving them unconditional love, they can finally express themselves and be accepted—without judgment, limitation, or censorship.
This is self-love: recognizing, respecting, and accepting ALL parts of yourself, without judgment.
Become the authority in your own system
By giving yourself this unconditional love, the emotions that have been bottled up for years can finally express themselves and heal. It’s no longer life-threatening to show these “bad” emotions because YOU are now in charge of your own system.
You no longer need to please your mental authority figures. You are an adult and can take care of yourself. And if you can’t fully do that yet, you can learn how to, so you can continue this journey independently.
The choice is yours
Do you want to keep living your parents’ or guardians’ life? Or do you want to live your own life, based on what you want?
If you want to keep living your parents’ life, you don’t need to do anything. Your automatic programming is already set up for that.
But if you want to live your own life, you can take full responsibility for actively doing so. This means making your own decisions and giving all parts of yourself unconditional love.
By doing this, you can heal yourself and continue to adjust and optimize your mental programming.
What will you choose now?
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Realize: Uncomfortable feelings are not a problem—they are valuable signals asking for your attention
Uncomfortable feelings are not a problem. They are signals indicating that a part of you needs attention. The idea that they are a problem IS the problem.
This is so important that I’ll repeat it:
The idea that uncomfortable feelings are a problem IS the problem.
Why? Because this is a misunderstanding—a miscommunication between your intellect and your feelings. In reality, uncomfortable feelings are valuable signals. They invite you to heal younger versions of yourself, to get to know yourself better, and to find inner harmony.
Unconditional love for your feelings
Unconditional love says to uncomfortable feelings:
“I will give you my attention for as long as you need it so that we can heal together, because you and I are one.”
Conditional love, on the other hand, says:
“I will give you my attention, but only as long as you disappear, because I don’t like you.”
This difference is essential. Conditional love rejects parts of yourself. Unconditional love accepts everything that is, without judgment.
Self-love: the key to inner healing
Self-love means unconditional love for all parts of yourself—including your uncomfortable feelings. It means having no resistance to what you experience but instead fully accepting it. This love doesn’t come from your head but from your heart.
With self-love, you say:
“I recognize, respect, and accept you as you are, without judgment. I love you, exactly as you are.”
Why healing sometimes stagnates
If you’ve ever thought or said:
- “I want these feelings to go away, when will they disappear?”
- “I’ve tried everything, but the problem keeps coming back.”
Then it’s likely that your feelings aren’t going away because you—consciously or subconsciously—reject them. Self-rejection is the opposite of self-love.
True healing can only take place when you choose unconditional self-love. When you approach your feelings with love, instead of judging them, everything changes.
From now on…
Decide to approach your feelings differently:
- “From now on, I recognize, respect, and accept all parts of myself, without judgment. I give my feelings loving, respectful, and helpful attention.”
- “When I experience uncomfortable feelings, I see them as valuable signals. I make time to recognize them because my happiness, health, and well-being are important.”
- “From now on, I live in my heart, not in my head. I live authentically and with abundant self-love, which I gladly share with others.”
Summary
Self-love is unconditional love for ALL parts of yourself—both your “positive” and “negative” thoughts and feelings.
Conditional love sets requirements:
“As long as you are the way I want you to be, I will love you.”
But self-love says: “I love (recognize) you, exactly as you are.”
With self-love, you accept (recognize) everything you feel, without resistance, and live in harmony. You are self-love—and with that, you have the power to heal yourself and others.
Will you choose self-love now?
Learn more here:
Apply self-love to negative thoughts
Apply self-love to uncomfortable feelings
Self-love – Write a hypnotic letter to your unborn self
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