Self-love is Freedom

Put your oxygen mask on first. It’s that simple. Self-love is just understanding that you CANNOT pour from an empty cup. You cannot assist or change the world without the energy within yourself. You cannot bear fruit from a barren tree. There are so many ways to just say LOVE YOURSELF FIRST! But people do not self-love, because it wasn’t taught to them. So let’s have a lesson!

I love love love looking at flowers. I’m not big on receiving them. I’m not big on planting them, watering them, or even actually keeping them alive. But I love to look. And I think about that sometimes when it comes to me loving myself. I love the way I look sometimes, but am I willing to put in the work to maintain that beauty. Not just physical beauty. But my inner beauty. Am I willing to water myself, give myself sun, plant myself into the right soil? We are so focused on the outside world and what everybody is doing or not doing. We do not spend enough time caring for ourselves. Who is really maintaining the love and beauty that already exists in us? Not many. We are just letting it die, day by day.

We complain about how evil and horrible this world we live in is. We are saddened by the shootings, the injustice, the discrimination, and all the hate in this world. It exists because the majority of people do not understand the importance of self-love. If we all loved ourself why would there be a reason to hate?

Why would we cause others pain? Why would we even bother to bring someone down? We wouldn’t. Humans as a collective just struggle with the idea of being free. Self-love is freedom. Self-love is the escape from the continuous cycle of disappointment. You cannot live out your purpose if you do not know yourself fully. And you get to know yourself fully by learning what you want, what you like, what you dream to be. When you say you love your friends, or your partner, or your family you say that because you know them. You know them enough to love them. You love them by spending time with them, listening to them, learning them, understanding what makes them smile and what pisses them off. Why can’t we treat ourselves like that? Why can’t we have a self-dialogue with ourselves about how are we feeling today? What do we need prayer for today? How is my body feeling and what can I do to help? We pay so much attention to the external world and to external relationships that we neglect our inner world. You cannot be free unless you are connected to yourself. When you wake up and just love who you are, that is true freedom. You love even the things you need to work on, you love whom you’re growing into, you just love your whole being. I’ll break it down in the steps that I feel are necessary to flow into the shift of being in love with yourself:

* Be You,

* Be Alone Sometimes

* Let Sh..t Go

* Be aware of the words you speak

* Say Yes To Yourself

* Know where you come from

* Be Free