What is Self-Love?
At a point in my life where I felt most alone in my Journey, is where I began to learn the value of Self-Love. Sometimes, we find that it takes a little solitude to begin noticing things about self that the eyes could never see before. Unity of self is the first step toward Self-Love. That is, to be content in your own company, soul searching your own DIVINE purpose.
So what is Love?
To even begin understanding Self-Love, we would need a root understanding of love in itself. What is the value of love? How could we possibly define such a thing? It’s essential purpose is found so simply, that where hatred is, offenses will soon come. But love is the healing frequency that remedies all in the aftermath. And because it bears all, and endures all things, love never really fails to show forth result for those that TRULY hope and believe there-in.
Where does your Love Flow?
Simply meditating on this idea of love alone, we catch a glimpse of the beauty behind the gift. And yet still, we live in a world where there’s misuse of love, neglect of love, and the manipulation there of. These are things that cloud the beauty of love with madness. Even within our own lives, we all have those things of interest in which we cant help but be passionate about. Those things that we spend all our time dreaming about pursuing, wishing we could grasp. Those are the things we love in life. But then when we would rather pursue those things, there’s far more ease to feed into other things that simply do not support our best self-interest. Ironically, these are the things that tend to be more convenient to us than our own goals. This is where self-love comes into play.
The Self-Love Synonym
A wise man once defined self-discipline as the synonym of self-love. Identifying self-love in this way resonates so much with me, but then it also trips me out at the same time. Only because the idea is one of those things that make so much sense that it sort of went over my head my entire life. But when we really think about it, in order to manifest any dream into reality, self-discipline will be required early on. Ultimately all material success revolves and thrives off of self-discipline. The problem is that we tend to think of discipline in a “restrictive punishment” sort of way. This obviously limits the mind only to what we cant have. But why not look toward a more spiritual perspective of self-discipline? Let’s go back to our general understanding of love. Love is a healing frequency, but love is also a mirror of what we commonly know today as Karma. Simply meaning that where, who, and what we give our love frequency the most is where love will show forth more result. What does this mean in terms of spiritual self-discipline, (or self-love rather)? What would happen when we turn our frequency toward our DIVINE purpose? DIVINE purpose then turns toward us, working with us in bringing forth the results we hope to manifest. And if this be the case of self-discipline we keep in mind, why would we despise that as restriction? The question becomes two:
What is being restricted?
Is this restriction worth me despising my goals that I hope to achieve?
Journey into Self-Love
Self-discipline holds us accountable of the love we give. But also brings us, with time, the self-control necessary to keep us going on our journey. Self-control is perhaps the greatest benefit to gain with a journey into self love. It is the shift in frequency that better helps the flow of journey without as much resistance. Along the way we find that of everything our self-discipline restricts us from, are all things that are common, convinient, and therefore tempting also. But not so much tempting that it would be impossible to resist. And so, to master the journey into self-love is to be self-controlled in all that we set out to accomplish. The requirement simply becomes our greatest effort of bringing the whole body into subjection of our goals in the process. Of course, we all know of this requirement to be easier said than done. Yet keep in mind, that one who lacks in self-control is said to be as a broken down house. One ruined without walls because of the lack in foundation. Where as the house with stronger and deeper foundation would better endure any storm and still remain standing. And what else would this foundation be other than self-discipline? This is Self-Love.