Eat, Pray, Love Yourself More!
I came into the world loving myself. Bold, boundless, brave. At some point, I learned not to love myself, not to believe in myself, not to love life. Sometimes, others who do not love themselves want to drag you down into their no-self love world. That’s how I ended up there. It was dark and cold and lonely. I found myself trying to drag others down as well. It’s one of those misery loves company scenarios. A weird recruitment program, for sure.
Once up, I turned around to see who I could offer hope and inspiration to and there were many. If we all did reach out our hands, the world could be a loving place for all. Way too much suffering goes on in the world because folks do not love themselves enough. They do bad things to other people because of their own pain. It continues down through the generations until no one knows how it even got started or that they have the power to stop it.Can we please change that model, already? It doesn’t work. It’s hell on earth. What’s the point of it all?
Here’s a quote by the wonderful Lucille Ball on love, “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
I am convinced that is the secret, the answer to the question mark in City Slickers that Curly draws in the sand.
Let’s encourage children and adults to love themselves, to love life, to love uncertainty, to love emotions, to love rain, to love nature, to love imperfection, to love learning what comes naturally, to love their true selves, to love idiosyncrasies, to love healthy food, to love dancing, to love singing, to love love.
How about you? Do you see the need for more love in the world? Have you done anything about promoting love in your area of the world that you’d like to share?
Yours in love for all, Giulietta
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Thanks giulietta,
Yes to more love. Thanks for sharing from your heart. You are blessed to have received helping hands to lift you up. Keep passing it forward.
blessings, brad
Hi Brad,
I love “keep passing it forward.” What a great idea … Everyone, want to?
Thanks! G.
Thanks Giulietta. Every one of us needs to learn to truly love ourselves. That is the key to peace on earth! If you love yourself, then you can only do GOOD to another. Self-love is so important!
Thanks again!
Linda
Hi Linda,
Many thanks for stopping to leave such a lovely note. You are so right that self love is the key to peace on earth. Whenever a new tragedy unfolds on the news, I think – that person didn’t love himself. And without that you can’t love anyone else. If only we’d promote self-love with the energy we do for making money. I will check out your site! Thanks, G.
It’s so important that we are confident in our own greatness, and uniqueness, so that we can encourage others to step into their own. Lately, I’ve been trying to reduce my own negative talk… Unless I really need to confide in someone so I can move forward, I try to keep the complaining to myself. The bad energy brings everyone down. But positive energy and genuine no-agendas kind of love is the stuff that changes the world.
Hi Angie,
Wow, that’s a brilliant line “no-agendas kind of love.” Then we could all work together for the greater good. It’s so true that we need to be in touch with our own greatness to encourage others. It’s so much easier to life each other up! Thanks, G.
Hi Giulietta — it’s a simple but easily forgotten truth, I think, that nothing we accomplish is really going to matter if we have an unhealthy relationship with ourselves. I learned that very thoroughly in the quest for money and prestige I used to be on.
Hi Chris,
Another true and great phrase “Unhealthy Relationship With Yourself.” Few, if any, mention these things. They just point us to the road of getting rich like nothing else matters. Many thanks! G.
Hi Giulietta,
First, superb writing, sensitive and incisive. “I came into this world loving myself” and then how the world pulled you down and helped you up again.
Why did it have to be that way for you? I suppose it’s the age-old destructive compulsion that people have to drag you down to make themselves feel bigger/better/more successful/self-confident etc. at your expense. The oldest leadership technique in the world – make you feel weaker so that they can feel stronger. Unfortunately you’re made to feel small and pathetic before you’re able to develop your self-defense mechanisms. Then this low self-esteem goes on all your life unless you find the help to regain your self-esteem, as you did.
Sadly, this tearing others down is in our genes since primitive times. This is what keeps the poor in poverty and people working at drab jobs for minimum wages and kids not seeking any future outside of their immediate satisfaction and older/disabled workers “unemployable.”
I do see the need for more “love” in this world, but “love” is too generalized a word. Perhaps more like “self-love” as a first step toward regaining your place in life.
Hi Penelope!
Thanks for the nice words about my writing. It does seem that the tearing down of others is in our genes or it’s been passed along for so long we think it is in our genes. Plays into the notion of winners versus losers and there isn’t enough to go around. Yes, I’ve gone down the self-love road. Just held a retreat on it last week and it’s now my big fav topic! Appreciate the comment. G.