LOVING MYSELF IS MY PATH TO FREEDOM AND EVER GREATER LOVE AND JOY!
Learning how to truly love and appreciate myself is the most powerful way to becoming the happy, loving and peaceful person I want and need to be
THE DAWNING LIGHT—Daily Journal Of Transformational Writing
Volume 8, Issue # 841 for Wednesday, March 20, 2024
SPIRITUAL SOUP KITCHEN Section # 142 Stories by Chinmayan to encourage you to use everything in your life as your spiritual path
All images in this story courtesy of Pixabay
LOVING MYSELF IS MY PATH TO FREEDOM and EVER GREATER LOVE and JOY!
Learning how to truly Love and appreciate myself is the most important and powerful way to becoming the happy, peaceful and loving person I want and need to be
This story was inspired by one of our faithful readers who read this newsletter every day and made this comment in response to yesterday’s story “Four Secrets We All Need To Use To Create A Life Of Love and Joy Worth Living”—-(if you missed this story, you can read it here:)
“Truly you are an inspiration, so wise that I am feeling encouraged to become less worried about myself and being grateful for what I have—“
Thank you dear one!
One of the most empowering things I received from my spiritual teachers is the absolute necessity of learning to develop an ever deepening love relationship with myself—-not arrogance, but consciously choosing to truly respect and appreciate and value my self.
It is far easier to love another person than it is to love our own self.
But I have learned that if I am being very loving towards me, then with that Love, my heart opens and my spirit soars which leads directly to healing and profound happiness…. because then I am my own best friend, i am the one who believes in my own preciousness, who knows who and what I really am.
I have also learned that if I want others to love and appreciate me (which I do!) that they can only love me to the degree that I love myself AND that I can only love another to the degree I love myself.
LACK OF SELF ESTEEM IS EVERYONE’S BIGGEST and MOST URGENT ISSUE
I have also learned that lack of self esteem and loving ourselves is EVERYONE’s biggest issue bar none!
We may seem confident to others, but underneath and inside ourselves we are all still little children that want and need to be loved …and who feel that we are not loved because we have been told and tell ourselves (through negative self talk)that we are not worthy, that something is wrong with us and that we can’t get the Love we need.
I have seen that most people are walking around in a state of silent, secret and hidden despair…all the while wanting, needing and trying to become loved and appreciated.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with their song still in them.” —Henry David Thoreau
Once I realized this truth about myself, I decided to create the space and start working to fall in Love with my own self…to love me the way God loves me, which is purely and unconditionally.
This was very hard to do in the beginning because of the deeply held negative beliefs and views I had of myself…and because when I was growing up, I was bullied, ostracized and constantly criticized and told I was a stupid worthless piece of shit by other children and even adults to the point that I believed them.
My spirit was crushed and I lost touch with seeing my own beauty and magnificence. By the time i was thrown out of and disowned by my family at 19, I had NO self esteem.
But fortunately, God never gives up on us or releases His loving arms from us or stops believing in us…and that makes all the difference.
Now, after years of consciously learning to love myself and doing the inner work daily to see and know who and what I really am, I have an unshakable and unstoppable Love affair with myself that gets more and more amazing by the day.
LOVING MYSELF HAS BROUGHT SO MUCH HEALING
This growing Love with and for myself has brought so much healing of all the wounds from my past and has opened my heart and spirit to being a force of Love for everyone in my life.
Here is another story I wrote about this:
I now know for sure that those who don’t love me definitely would if only they were able to see me as I really am.
Loving myself makes it possible for me to really see others and to love them.
Loving myself means I enjoy my own company so that I love solitude and me time, whereas in earlier years I was so desperately lonely that I was always trying to get love and approval and praise from others.
Now, that desperate craving is completely gone and replaced with glowing self esteem.
MY LIFE IS AN EVER GROWING GARDEN OF LOVE
Now my life is an ever growing garden of Love, loving and being loved and sharing Love everywhere I go, whoever I am with.
Loving myself is liberating, and the more I love me, the more of the real me I can bring forward to share and help others love themselves.
And most important of all, the more I love and know myself, the more I am able to be closer and closer, more and more loving with God in the very sweetest of divine relationships that is advancing rapidly.
So dear one, this is another Secret for you to use to lift yourself.
I know you are beautiful, precious and totally worthy….and have so much to share and shine out into the world.
When you love yourself, that light of Love shines bright in your heart and in your eyes…in your words…in your touch…and in every action.
You see, we were sent here to earth to learn how to Love…and learning to love ourselves is the greatest lesson and achievement possible!
There are several powerful practices that I will be sharing in stories (here in the Dawning Light) soon that you can use to develop falling in love in a dedicated long term (as in this lifetime and all future lives)relationship with yourself.
WE TEACH HOW TO FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR SELF
I will also being teaching these practices in the next Meditation Training Intensive course that we will offer as soon as we finish the restoration projects here and reopen this Center for programs. I encourage you to take this training…
But meanwhile, start using the FOUR SECRETS that I shared yesterday…
We can only improve ourselves and uplevel our lives through learning the spiritual principles and then dedicating ourselves to doing the spiritual practices with sustained effort over time to get the positive transformations we need.
Believe me, if I, who was so broken and crushed, lonely and depressed, could do it through using these principles and practices, then ANYONE, and certainly you, dear one, can achieve it for yourself as well!
Thank you for being here! You are truly an inspiration for me!
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE WITH US TODAY!
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When you change the way you think about things, and the things you think about change”
—Wayne Dyer
“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.” —Ram Das
“When God is the center and focus of my life, everything else falls into it’s rightful place.”
—Chinmayan