How To Love Yourself First Before Loving Others
It sounds all pithy and wise and stuff.
How to love yourself first before loving others. Were raised to admire beautiful people. Its in us but we need to release it to others through words and actions. Its a lovely saying for sure but lets try to analyze and find the answer to why its so important to love yourself first from a very practical. But the idea that you have to fully love yourself before loving someone else is not true.
Loving yourself first before you can love others introduction. Understandably they desperately want to escape a negative self image. This may sound wise but it misses a great truth. Love only develops after making your own happiness a top priority.
We need to love ourselves before we can love anyone else. Stop caring about how you look. Yes we live in a society obsessed with beauty. Theres a cliche saying that you have to love yourself first before you can deeply love other people be it your spouse family or friends assuming that we know different kinds of love.
3 loving others gods love is a gift to us. It can be a wall we hide behind. Theres no two ways about it. Why you have to love yourself first.
Multitudes of people christians included go through life feeling discouraged depressed and unlovable. She absolutely did not love herself yet i have no question in my mind she genui. Ive had a partner who struggled with self esteem and shame. Many people think the cure to a poor self image is to learn to love yourself.
Left dormant it will stagnate like a pool of water with no outlet. Whoever does not love abides in death. What may seem on the surface to be love and admiration may turn out to be more about exploitation and game. Were not capable of truly loving others.
Its a banner hung by people who have read too many self help books. 1 john 314 says we know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brothers. A lot of people really cling to this aphorism. Love yourself first healthy relationships occur between two people who are comfortable with themselves in addition to one another.