Heart Advice

Increase Your Self-Love: 8 Ways to Be Good to Yourself

''“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.” ~Buddha

Someone asked me a couple of years ago, out of ten how much to did I love myself? I said four. I had to give my immediate, intuitive answer, as this was the honest truth.

Four! That came as a shock to me. It’s low. I thought I was pretty good with myself. I’m smart, multitalented, not bad looking, generally happy, I have lots of friends and enjoy life.

But now the truth began to shine. With introspection I could see why the answer was four. My thoughts, feelings, words, and actions showed how I really felt. What I thought was self-love was largely superficial gloss on the surface of my life.

What’s more, this lack of self-love was playing out in my life and keeping me from experiencing real joy and freedom...’’

by Pinky Jangra