"What we want most is to feel good about ourselves."
Basic Text, p. 101
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"We'll love you until you can learn to love yourself." These words, heard so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerly--the day when we'll know how to love ourselves.
Self-esteem--we all want this elusive quality as soon as we hear about it. Some of us seem to stumble upon it accidentally, while others embark on a course of action complete with affirmations made to our reflections in the mirror. But fix-it-yourself techniques and trendy psychological cures can only take us so far.
There are some definite, practical steps we can take to show love for ourselves, whether we feel that love or not. We can take care of our personal responsibilities. We can do nice things for ourselves, as we would for a lover or a friend. We can start paying attention to our own needs. We can even pay attention to the qualities that we cherish in our friends--qualities like intelligence and humor--and look for those same qualities in ourselves. Were sure to find that we really are lovable people, and once we do that, were well on our way.
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Just for today: I will do something today that helps me recognize and feel love for myself.
I had to and still have to keep from beating myself up over every thing I felt I had done and do wrong. I realized thats all i did all my life, felt like a dumb loser, less then worthy.
We have to find the good along with seeing the bad, I often ask for help to change, change what I cant change myself, I seek spiritual guidance and I make an effort personally.
I don't often FEEL GOOD in respects to health and this compounds how I FEEL I have to ignore that and then I have to watch myself closely so that I dont cause worse injury, I have to watch my diet and how much I exert myself. I have to rest and recover and keep going to the gym, this all makes me like myself :) oh and i have to be nice to people, when i'm mean I dont like myself lol.
