Love Yourself & Avoid The Trap Of Self Rejection & Self Abandonment Syndrome PT 1

The subject of self love is talked about very often and several experts create products and programs for people to learn better ways develop a love relationship with themselves.

Often, most can not elevate, embrace or embodied more of the benefits of self love because they are so use to practicing self rejection. Not catering to ourselves enough consistently and/or loving ourselves can be very detrimental to our overall well being.  Henri Nouwen, quotes "The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection."

Self rejection is a huge trap that several fall into because we've lived most of our lives in a society that has promoted activities and lifestyle practices that conditions us to under value who we are by giving more of ourselves to others than we give to ourselves. In truth we can't really give to others what we don't first have for ourselves.

Self abandonment is another high form of self rejection. When we don't attend to the needs of our soul, we suffer internally and externally. Believe it or not several conscious entrepreneurs and transformational leaders practice self abandonment like an art form even though they are called to serve and help evolve others.

Both of these practices are traps that keep us hiding out from ourselves and not facing the things that we need to face in order to be true to ourselves to take our lifestyles and business to the next level. This is why it's so important to love yourself and avoid the trap of self rejection and/or the self abandonment syndrome.

The number one key to avoiding those imbalances is to begin embodying a lifestyle of loving actions just like we practice laws of hygiene. Loving yourself should be a lifestyle and not just a process of treating yourself nice every once in a while. We each need to develop a lifestyle of taking loving actions towards ourselves daily.

Again, this way of being should be embodied in our experience daily. Everyday should be like Valentines in some fashion. Take the first step towards loving yourself more by accepting yourself as you are, spending more quality soul care time and/or writing in a journal about what your new love relationship with yourself could look like at this time.

The second part of this series will talk more about self-acceptance and self appreciation.

Happy Valentines 24/7, 365