Happiness has everything to do with learning to love
yourself, first, than it has to do with being concerned about what others think
about you and your decisions. Contrary to this, it is only through the eyes of
others we see our deepest feelings about ourselves.
Read the Quote below from Psychology Today.
Read the Quote below from Psychology Today.
________________________________
Sign up for
our mailing list BELOW. You’ll be privy to the latest and greatest ways to help
yourself eat, exercise, meditate, and express your authentic life in ways you
never thought possible. I promise not to flood you with ads or sell
your name to advertisers. This is a personal e-mail server, which I use
only to make big announcements. Thanks for signing up in advance.
Also, check out my new
book: “Your New Story, Your New Life” The Metaphysical Mind.
_____________________________________
Continued from
above:
From Psychology
Today:
Everyone's heard
this self-help platitude:
We need to love ourselves before we can love anyone else. This may sound wise, but it misses a great truth; if we want to experience true intimacy, we need to be taught to love aspects of ourselves--again and again--by the people around us.
We need to love ourselves before we can love anyone else. This may sound wise, but it misses a great truth; if we want to experience true intimacy, 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. No amount of positive self-talk can replicate this experience. It
is a gift of intimacy, not of will-power.
My fiancé and I had a bit of a tumble yesterday when
I said to him: “I would really love to see what your hair looks like grown
out!” He shaves his head. I’ve never seen him with hair on his head.
After he pouted a bit, he confessed that he thought
that I didn’t like how he looked with a shaved head. In other words, he risked
being told something harsh and hurting deeper to hear what I really felt.
I was so thankful to hear him immediately share his
truth that I was easily able to say, “Of course, I love you and think you’re
hot just the way you are. I’m just curious, that’s all.” (I actually had to do
a bit more talking him down from his desire to avoid me and his feelings. Mostly,
we got over the problem very quickly and simply by being honest.
The quote from Psychology
Today makes the most sense when you look at it as I have exemplified from
above. If you have never trusted someone enough with your heart and your
feelings to allow a person to love you where you feel most vulnerable, you will
probably never be healed in that place. It’s harsh, but true.
· We
can love ourselves a great deal.
· We
can work on our truths in many aspects.
· We
can become monks and never have to deal with another person, only Spirit.
· But
the one aspect of life we get on earth is that we must exist in relationship to
understand how deeply words and our feelings impact us.
With me, I’m usually the last person who knows how much
something hurts, until I’m in a position where someone judges me. I believed
or, at least, told myself that I have taken care of that part of me that cares
what other’s think. But, ultimately, the words someone else says about you often
bring up what you think of ourselves. So, it is in relationship that we
discover the deepest places that we need to heal.
Hopefully, this relationship will be with those same
people who love you way past your faults, or a therapist, or life coach that
you can work on those places that most affect the way you feel about yourself.
* * *
A Single Session w/Bo Sebastian
What would you feel like if everyday
you loved yourself a little more…
What would you be if you loved and
gave compassion unconditionally… to yourself first and then to others?
If you could imagine yourself so
connected to God Source that everything you thought and every action you
completed you trusted could heal yourself and, ultimately the world around you?
Create a Better Life with One Healing Session with Bo Sebastian
Call 954-253-6493
(Sessions CAN BE DONE via PHONE, SKYPE or FACETIME.)
(Sessions CAN BE DONE via PHONE, SKYPE or FACETIME.)
www.bosebastian.com
Bo works with people on SKYPE and FaceTime all over the world. He is
taking new clients now. Call 954-253-6493 for information.
Take the time to look at Bo’s
bookshelf of self-help books, novels, healing downloads, and yoga DVD. All of
Bo’s books help people such as you, make SIGNIFICANT CHANGE with habits, find
your SOULMATE, your PASSION, reach YOUR DREAMS, and dictate your own FUTURE.
Chosen to show his new
hypnotherapeutic techniques on The Learning Channel (TLC) and also given the
opportunity to teach at the world conference for Learning, and received the
award of excellence for Helping Overcome Obesity in Nashville, Bo Sebastian is the writer and director of Finding Authentic You and Uncommon Gay Spiritual Warrior. Go directly toAmazon/Amazon Kindle to buy any of his wonderfully inspired books: ]
Coming soon, my partner David Menton and I are
planning to start a Vlog with Vegetable Based enriched recipes from my plethora
of fun and easy ways to make food taste amazing. Enjoy!
