"No one can love you until you love yourself,
and you cannot love anyone else,
until you love yourself."

Raymond Charles Barker

With love and appreciation,
LauraK

So RIGHT ON!

I think this topic is another of great importance. With that in mind, I offer the following quotes:

"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open." - Emmet Fox

“I find that when we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works. It’s as if little miracles are everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our relationships become much more fulfilling, and we begin to express ourselves in creatively fulfilling ways. All this seems to happen without our even trying.” from You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. Hay

“The alchemical balm of self-love will positively restore and transform all areas of your life. It will not only be experienced as rewards of greater joy, peace, empowerment, intimacy, giving and receiving, and improved relating with all, but in greater outer world success in general, and the receiving of more gifts, blessings, and abundance in all areas of life.
Love is a magical magnet that attracts the best of everything. When you access and develop this love within, life become’s happier and richer in all ways.
Loving yourself is easy when you own your inherent innocence and worth and acknowledge the divinity that you are.” Aine Belton

“If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.” - Paul Solomon

Think kind thoughts about yourself.

Phil

My inherent innocence... Wow. Where did you even get that Phil? It hit me right in the solar plexus. You all need to stop making me cry. Whew.

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Originally posted by luv2luv:
My inherent innocence... Wow. Where did you even get that Phil? It hit me right in the solar plexus. You all need to stop making me cry. Whew.

Re our 'innocence',...

It seems true to me.

One of my sister-in-laws is a family & child therapist. She has routinely dealt with abused children in the past. One of the difficult issues they have is getting the children to stop abusing theirselves (burning, cutting theirselves, hitting their heads against a wall, etc.). Pain is their ‘comfort zone’ and they have to patiently be taught to be comfortable with feeling peaceful.

Years ago I read a study done with several prominent psychologists. In it, they estimated that 95+ percent of us have had some form of abuse. It seems to me, to varying degrees, we are just like abused children. We need to patiently come to be comfortable with peace, feeling love, well being and happiness.

It seems to me, we all need to be willing to be very generous in our love towards ourselves and others.

“Tending to your own thoughts and feelings and letting yourself become the perfect match to your desires brings you joy and peace. And I promise you that your own joy and peace are the keys to everything -- EVERYTHING -- you want, for yourself and others.” - Rebecca Fine

Phil

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Originally posted by Phil:
Years ago I read a study done with several prominent psychologists. In it, they estimated that 95+ percent of us have had some form of abuse. It seems to me, to varying degrees, we are just like abused children. We need to patiently come to be comfortable with peace, feeling love, well being and happiness.

I have been told by both psychologists & reputable energy healers that many medical interventions during early childhood can also leave the exact same feelings, of boundary violation, powerlessness and so on, as deliberate abuse - even where these interventions saved the life of the child.

This has been an issue for me and I wanted to share it for people who may have a sense of past abuse, yet in all other ways it seems impossible, bsaed on their knowledge of their family and carers.

A tiny infant can't judge intentions on behalf of the adult, and medical interventions can be highly intrusive in all manner of ways - I for example had a nasogastric feeding tube at one point as a baby, that seems to have been the cause of an unwillingness to eat throughout my first decade of life.