PART II... Do You Truly Love Yourself?

I have decided not to write a sequel to this post because I feel that if one sits down to write how  then the list can be never ending. Each one of us will have different experiences to narrate and  if we have an unloved self in us then we will end up identifying our self with these experiences. But what is really required is to find some time for us and sit quietly and go deep into our own self and find the experiences that have troubled us. Each one of us will have a unique experience and to go through this experience is what is important. To go through all the feelings that arise within us during these moments of deep solitude and communicate with our past emotions, experiences is what will unlock the key to our closed and clamped hearts. We have to identify our own feelings, we have to experience our own emotions. 

Lot of our emotions get unattended to in our growing up years. We need to attend to them and not just feel burdened, saddened, angered or victimized by them.  If  we don’t attend to them now then we will keep projecting our fears and insecurities on to others. Then we are not living the present but living in the past with past memories and emotions. To live in the present we have to release the  past emotions that have disturbed us and gradually let go of them otherwise we will be merely reacting out of habit rather than responding from the present moment. Habitual reactions can never ever be solutions to any problems. They are just plain and ordinary reactions which we repeat irrespective of the situation.

The interesting part about habitual reactions is that we connect all situations to our fears, insecurities and anxieties. In all situations we find ourselves as victims. The reason being we have been unable to come out of our past victimized selves and we relive our past through or in the present situations. Our actions are not tuned to responding but to reacting through habit.

To love our self we need to be creative… to be creative we have to respond… to respond we have to let go of reactions and habits. When you respond to a situation you are actually creating an emotion, action which is in the present. And being creative is what brings immense love for the creator and for the creation who/which is none but you!