Love Yourself

Everyone's heard this platitude: We need to love ourselves before we can love anyone else. This may sound, but it misses a great truth; if we want to experience true, we need to be taught to love aspects of ourselves--again and again--by the people around us.

As much as we want to control our own destiny, the humbling truth is that sometimes the only way to learn self-love is by being loved-precisely in the places where we feel most unsure and most tender. When that happens, we feel freedom and relief-and permission to love in a deeper way.

Ed Sheeran sat down with Howard Stern on SiriusXM on Tuesday morning (March 7) and revealed that the Justin Bieber smash 'Love Yourself' was a castoff that he thought might work for Rihanna but had a much dirtier chorus. He also revealed the concept behind his album titles. Lyrics to 'Love Yourself' by Justin Bieber: For all the times that you rain on my parade And all the clubs you get in using my name.

No amount of positive can replicate this experience. It is a gift of intimacy, not of will-power. Yet if our vulnerability is met with derision or disinterest, something tender shrivels and retracts within us, and we may think twice about ever sharing that part again. In my favorite Chipmunks episode, Simon falls head over heels in love, but has no idea how to win the (chip)girl's heart. Dave exhorts him, 'Just be yourself.'

In response, Simon wails, 'I tried that already!' When our authentic self doesn't work in the world, we create a false self which lets us feel safe and accepted--but at significant cost. The great psychoanalytic theorist Donald Winnicot said, 'Only the true self can be creative and only the true self can feel real.' I would add that only the true self can bear the risk of deep intimacy. Every time we face the choice to share our deeper self, we stand at a precipice. Often, it's just too scary to take the step forward.

Microsoft Office 2007 Serial Key Zexion. Imagine taking a pet you love and putting it in a yard with an invisible electric fence. When it moves outside its allowed space, it gets stunned by an unexpected shock. It will only take a few jolts before your pet gets the message: if it goes too far, will be instantaneous. In a short period of time, your pet won't as if the borders even exist; it will simply avoid them.

If pushed closer to the danger zone, it will exhibit increasing signs of anxiety. The world outside the fence just isn't worth the pain.

Now imagine turning off the charge from the invisible fence, and then placing a bowl of food outside its perimeter. Your pet might be starving, but it will still be terrified to enter into the newly free space.

And when it finally crosses the line, it does so with trembling; anticipating the pain of new shocks. It is the same with us; even though we yearn for the freedom of our true self, some deep reflexive instinct still tries to protect us from being hurt again. We can each learn more about our true and false selves by answering these two questions: * What parts of your authentic self did you have to hide or camouflage in your?

* In your current relationships, where are you confined to too small a space? What parts of yourself are you not expressing?

In my work as a psychotherapist, I've found that we tend to be ashamed of our most unique, passionate and iconoclastic parts. These aspects of ourselves threaten our safety, but as I explain in my book, they are the direct path to love and, not incidentally, to personal greatness. When we suppress these challenging gifts, we're left with a sense of emptiness and. This around our most vulnerable attributes is almost universal.

And even our best thinking will barely budge it. So, how do we free ourselves from the thrall of learned shame and around our gifts? The best--sometimes the only--way out is through relationships; relationships which instruct us in the worth of our most vulnerable self. Of the people you know, who sees and relishes your true self? Who isn't too afraid of your passion, or too of your gifts? Who has the of spirit to encourage you toward greater? These people are gold.

Practice leaning on them more, and giving more back to them. They are, quite simply, the way out. They are what I call, and we usually need to build these relationships into in our non-romantic lives before we find them in our romantic partners. When you date someone like this, recognize what progress you've made to let them in, and celebrate that. In future posts, I will describe the path to building more of these relationships into our lives. © Ken Page, LCSW 2015.

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Here is his email alexzanderhightemple@gmail.com (link sends e-mail) or check on him with this website address • •. This article places importance on a core group of people who already love your wonderful qualities that make us unique. We are to allow them to teach us to do the same for ourselves. I see the importance and the value of this.

What if you find your self at 44 and literally have no body but you husband. I would have to start from scratch developing relationships all the while never showing my authentic self with theses people. How do you do it alone?

Cuz let me just say, I have been known to hate myself. Thank you • •. While I am fortunate to have loving and supportive family members, But I'm in the same boat as you. Do you know the principles of Judo? Its a Martial Art where you use your opponents weight and force by redirecting it away from you.

For instance, When your opponent comes at you, you move out of the way and pull them away from you Christopher Reeves also demonstrated this when he said 'when you feel most needy.that is when you serve.' Give when you really desperately need to receive. This is how it works. When you redirect your pain to focusing on other's pain, it not only helps you gain perspective, it turns your need into something even more powerful. Taking that pain, using it as energy to direct back positively to the world changes you.mmmmmm. Sort of the difference between getting pushed and being the pusher.

Its redirecting the energy that is causing you pain. A great way to do this is by Volunteering at places that service not the young, the beautiful and the successful, but the rest of us.elderly facilities, homeless shelters, battered women shelters, Red Cross, animal shelters, anyplace where there is a need. These sectors of the population are lonely and forgotten because the mainstream want so much to forget them.

Their loved ones have abandoned or abused them. For instance, being with the the elderly generation is profoundly rewarding for me. It can be a little uncomfortable at first but the more I volunteer, the more I grow and get the opportunity to see the good in myself. I think it shines through my eyes and others see it too and are drawn to me. Sometimes I am in so much pain I want to withdraw from the world.

When I feel that way I force myself to engage even more. I change my behavior. I know this sounds a bit confusing but it might help • •. This is what I feel like I need to do to start loving myself again.

And that is to visit home assisted living facilities for the elderly. There is one close to me where I gave an entertaining speech not so long ago when I wasn't full of self doubt and social anxiety.

Now, I have a hard time just leaving the house. Even with my wife.

You see, I left a job about 5 months ago that required me to work the opposite shifts and days of my loving wife. I left that job after about 3 years because it was leading me to severe depression not getting to see my wife for only about 6 to 8 hours per week. Know, between 8 o'clock when she leaves the house and 6 o'clock when she returns home, the walls are closing in on me, I have no one to interact with and have developed social anxiety, self doubt, and depression. I may be getting a job soon helping others who are less fortunate than be and I'm not sure I can handle the pressure of it in the shape I'm in now from the neck up.

So this week, I might find a way to call the elderly facility and go visit some folks who may need some company and conversation. I think because of our survival instinct we have fears to be excluded from the group. In addition, we grew up thinking (mostly told by parents, friends and teachers) that there is something wrong with us. We seek approval from others all the time.

When there is nothing wrong with you! And there is nothing to hide. Because in reality, you don't need anybody's approval. And so there is no need to hide yourself.

Start loving yourself by acknowledging that you are unique, amazing person, there are no others like you. Stop beating yourself us for other people's opinions, when in reality they are afraid for themselves to. Encourage yourself, talk positive with yourself and be your best friend. Only when you love and appreciate how wonderful you are, you can give that love to others without martyrdom. If you need others opinion, simple exercise: ask people you know to write it down the things that your presence made difference in their lives.

That way you will see that there are plenty of things that you are good at and you are good person that makes difference in lives. Start from there. I love psych today and read it both in print and blog regularly. I would join in and say 'yay, great article' but i can't get past the too-keen images of the torture of a household pet to make it to the end. Seriously, what were you thinking? Sure, the analogy of the innocent pet and its forced psychological behaviors via the invisible fence make sense and illustrate your point, but it's also AWFUL and disrespectful of any reader who cares about critters. There's enough cruelty in the world, especially that of the small furry defenseless ones - why champion it?

Besides, isn't the point of your piece to encourage readers to build a love our inner puppy while learning lessons from our littermates (rather than some ultimate godlike fence-master)? That message is entirely incongruous with an illustration of cruelty. I'm no card-carrying peta member, but there is nothing about that analogy that generates respect for this article or your message.

I fully agree with April. How can an author of a psych today-article encourage the readers to imagine cruel experiments on 'beloved pets'? How can a therapist even feel it is okay to torture animals? If this is what the author's values are like, I wonder how empathic and professional he really is towards people.

As far as I'm concerned, the credibility of this article is reduced significantly by the animal analogy, and the author of it earns the same respect he is giving to animals, namely zero. I feel like this article goes against everything that I'm trying NOT to do in order to truly love myself. In fact, it almost encourages codependency.

All my life, I've used the people around me to define myself and have continually used their nurturing and beliefs about me to build myself. This isn't loving myself at all. When those people go away you are left with your own nurturing and if you've depended on those other people to build you up, you've never learned to love yourself without them. I think you should take others opinion about you as a check point for only positive aspects about you. We used to the idea that we depends on others, but in reality - you are the one who always with yourself, all the time. You the one who decides things for yourself.

To listen to others opinion is good sometimes, but negative comments or opinions that come from other people usually not worth listening, because those people don't love themselves. They can't give the advice to support of something they themselves do't have. Always listen to yourself, learn to appreciate every bit of yourself and celebrate yourself. Hi Ken, I just wanted to say 'thank you' for your insightful article. I recently discovered that my negative childhood belief is 'I am unlovable' and oh my goodness how that has played out throughout my life. Married a man who was unable to give himself to me emotionally (proofing my point that I am unlovable), started to shy away from having friends and feeling very alone (feeling unlovable) and the list goes on and on. I am practicing every day to 'love me' through speak and touch in hope that 1 day I will be rewarded with the gift that 'I believe that I am lovable in every way' and live a life from that belief!

Looking forward to my journey!:) • •. First of all, this is a very inspirational post and I thank you for taking the time to post it. However, I don't think that this can apply to everyone. For example, I do have a hard time loving myself. It makes no sense to me why, but I do. I'm a good looking guy, I'm smart, and I know that if I could just find the courage and respect for myself to be my true self around the people in my life and new people, I would be a funny, charismatic guy as well. However, that's a lot easier said than done for me.

I don't have a very supportive or structurally sound family. The only people that I can say could show me true love for me being just the way I am is my mom and dad. But I met my dad when I was 12 and to this day don't have a close enough relationship with him to open up about emotions like this. And my mom doesn't want to talk to me anymore due to a disagreement we had in the past. We haven't spoken in over a year. The point of all of this is, some people don't have anyone who can show them that they are worth loving.

And people who don't love themselves already have a difficult time building relationships with people. So what can someone who has no one in their life to show them that they are worth being loved do to achieve this goal? First of all, you don't need other people in your life to know that you are loved. Second, you need forgiveness. Towards yourself, and towards your family. Start your day imagining that lots of stuff never happened.

I know, it is hard. But who you think you are is just memories. And you can start your story again.

It all depends on you! You are great guy (from what I see, have a heart and thoughtful) so imagine your life what if you call your mom and tell her that no matter what, you still love her. I am sure it would change things. Forgive them. But most of all - forgive yourself first. You did the best you could at the given moment with what you had and what you knew.

I grew up thinking that many things between my parents was my fault, but it wasn't! Also, remember, other people are also going through the same things as you, you just don't know about that. Your family is also want to be loved and accepted. It is sad that things like that go from generation to generation, wasted lives to desperation. You deserve better, you know you do.

Also, if you don't forgive yourself for what ever you think you did (and you did nothing wrong), you will continue punishing yourself and not granting yourself freedom to meet somebody and experience love (like significant other). Start tomorrow with things that make you happy, do something. But first - forgive yourself. Sure thing, Ken. I read this article and then decided to hang out with a friend.

I turned the corner into the room they were in, and they were looking at me, in a way saying, 'I'm expecting you to tell me something [with your actions].' I looked around the room, avoiding their stare, and then looked back at them, in a way asking them the same question they asked me. My friend reacted by being dismissive of me, until I began opening up with my true self.

Because this article was at the forefront of my mind, I contemplated what had just happened, and my mind came to the conclusion that when the world asks your true self of you and you don't deliver, the world is going to 'punish' you for your response. My mind needed this analysis (that came about partially because of reading this article) and that event afterwards to LEARN that revelation. I hope this helps others learn the same things I did. Great article. I agree to some extent that an individual may feel the need to disguise aspects of themselves that have not been appreciated by others in the past.

However, I also believe that it is up to the individual to learn to accept these vulnerabilities and understand that they do not need others to express appreciation in order to love themselves. It is this acceptance from oneself that will encourage others to see these traits as not vices, but as distinctive and unique traits.

Despite this, I do believe that whilst others can indeed contribute towards greater self-expression, fundamentally it is the individual that is responsible for their ability to practise self-love. Interesting read. I would tend to agree with you based on my previous experiences of myself and people around me. I believe a lot of people may not wish to believe they need others to feel comfortable within themselves, through some sense of pride. It takes real strength of character to first of all, admit that they don't love themselves and to then, learn to love themselves on their own.

In my opinion and evidently yours, I don't believe it's do-able. The only person that knows every little thing about yourself, is you. The good, the bad and the ugly.

So how can you love yourself? If you know all your faults? If you surround yourself with people that re-enforce the good things about yourself day in, day out, it only serves to highlight the good points and thus, cloud the bad points from one's vision to give one a 'better' version of oneself. Or so it would seem to us. Nothing has changed.

We haven't become a different person and yet we believe we are better in some way and from this, it is more acceptable and easier to love oneself. You have missed the 'perpetual boat' on Loving Yourself.

Loving yourself starts with yourself - not with Being Loved By Others First. I have read (I wish I was kidding, but I'm sad to say, I'm not) thousands of articles on 'Loving Yourself' - how to. And other subjects. And the Center of It All is LOVING YOURSELF FIRST. How can you say that a person 'needs' to be Loved by Someone Else to 'feel good or whole' about themselves? That Only Puts certain people on a Never-Ending-Trip to make themselves feel better about themself or to love themself.

I guess you say that a person 'needs' someone to love them before they can feel good about themself because it 'gets you Noticed and sometimes people 'PAY YOU WITH MONEY' to finally get to the point that 'is the Reality where we all need to be - loving ourself first then our relationships and actions are Based On That Initial Relationship - Loving Ourself. Be Honest With People. I try so hard, I hide my emotions, insecurities, thoughts, desires out of fear.

I feel like i need to explain myself and to apologize for who I am. I question myself, i don't trust myself, and I certainly do not love myself. I've been doing it all my life, Why do I care what people think of me? I need to change that, I want to change that. I want to change the way kids view this world, but before I do, I need to to change myself. I want to respect myself, love myself and trust myself unconditionally. Brings tears every time.

Hey I really did like your article and I think I was definitely able to relate to issues of self esteem I face. I particularly liked what you said about confronting our insecurities to love ourselves.

But it seemed to me that in order to truly overcome the insecurities we needed to do so through relationships with others (I don't know if you were emphasizing romantic relationships or just relationships in general). It seemed to me ultimately we have to rely on others to learn to love ourselves. But shouldn't self love come from within, and not through what we gain from other people? I have nothing against forming relationships and I understand the importance of it to our well being, but isn't there a way to love ourselves from within?