If you do not love yourself, how can you love others?

If you do not love yourself, how can others love you?

How you treat yourself is how people are going to treat you.

If you practice hard and follow certain steps and routines, you can attain self-love.

Self-love is one of the most talked-about subjects in the spiritual world.

Preachers talk about it.

Volumes have been written on its importance and how to realize it in life.

All that is preached and written on self-love is true.

It makes us confront the fact that our love for ourselves is missing to some extent, that the presence or lack of it is responsible for what shows up in our day-to-day life.

It inspires us to do something about it – meditate, follow the recommended practices, etc.

But does it make a difference to our self-love and our life?

If yes, then for how long, how consistently?

And, above all, what fraction of the total readership experiences itself differently?

If no, then why?

This is a very pertinent question to ask. Isn’t it?

Why, whatever we read or hear or already know, does not always make a permanent positive difference in our life?

It is true for happiness, satisfaction, relationships, and peace of mind – the things that are most important to us.

You may say that it is due to a lack of willpower.

But then don’t you already know, or can’t you find out how to increase willpower?

There is something beyond what you know and that ‘something’ is not visible to you.

You may call it blind spots, hidden memories, or karma from the past, but there is something which is in the way of you experiencing the love for yourself and so many other things in life.

That ‘something’ is the real thing.

However, if you can see and confront that ‘real’ thing and are willing to work on it, many areas of your life will dramatically change.

That ‘real’ thing comprises the realization of why it is hard for you to be in love with yourself, when and why this love started diminishing, and what it will take for you to restore this loving relationship with yourself.

Remember that this ‘real’ thing is not something generic that applies to everyone.

It is highly individualized.

That’s the reason why it demands personalized attention from a helping hand.