Learning to love yourself
Learning to love yourself can be a daunting task at times especially when you carry tonnes of burdens,be it financial,emotional,spiritual etc etc.....I was watching the Oprah show this morning and apparently, this was one of their topics for the show. The speaker, a celebrated psychologist (Miss Robin sth..she is a frequent speaker in Oprah's shows) talked about learning to love yourself. Though I did not finish watching the entire show, I know that this topic is a 'hot favourite' in many of Oprah's shows. Many of us are victims of 'not loving ourselves' and this can be due to many reasons:
- Childhood abuse
- Emotional trauma
- Inferiority complex
- Disengaged from the society and the list goes on and on....
The author, yours sincerely, is also learning to love herself. It is a lie if someone says he/she truly loves him/herself because at some point in our lives, we dislike who we are. Learning to let go of certain things is one of the ways to love ourselves. We may still be holding tightly on some things of the past that hinder us from moving on, or bearing grudges against certain person(s) who have hurt us before.
Through my personal experience, learning to let go has benefitted my life greatly. Before the 'letting go', I was suffocated, like being stuffed in a small room with no air, no sunlight. For some of us, letting go ain't easy, seems like 'Mission Impossible'. That I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND. Because we have held on for so long that once you let you, there's a certain void, a certain kind of emptiness that is indesribable.
Slowly, take one step at a time, take deep breaths, look forward and most importantly, know that you are not alone is this mental warfare. You are never alone unless you allow yourself to.
*listening to: 'Anywhere Is' by Enya
posted by Jiatine @ 11:24 PM
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