In order to truly love someone, you have to experience love yourself. Loving yourself includes feeling happy, healthy, connected, secure, confident, inspired, controlled, creative, attentive, flexible, accepting, attentive, and confident. To truly love someone, you have to be present in all your relationships. Here are some examples of experiences that show us how to love ourselves:
-Nurture and express affection: Being present with your romantic partner in all their romantic gestures, words, and behaviors can help you love yourself. Love is a series of emotions and behaviors often characterized by passion, intimacy, commitment, and affection. It includes caring, sharing, closeness, adoration, support, attraction, security, happiness, enthusiasm, and trust. Love can range in intensity from a light feeling of affection for just sharing moments, to intense feelings of romance for another person that leaves you yearning for them. While romance is an emotion, expressing affection in a non-romantic way can be a great way to develop love.
-rouse compassion and empathy: One of the primary sources of love may come from compassion and empathy. Empathy and compassion can also enhance understanding and may help people to put themselves in other people’s shoes as well as learn to love themselves. For instance, if you were in the car in the pouring rain while another person had a broken down car in the traffic on the way to work, you would likely feel compassion for them, which would cause you to re-evaluate your own driving that day. When you are in a comfortable setting with someone you know well, they tend to look after themselves better, thus increasing your own well-being.
– cultivate positive emotions: Although love may be associated with anger and jealousy, it can also involve other types of positive emotions. These could include enjoyment, happiness, peace, security, relaxation, freedom, satisfaction, success, accomplishment, success, and many others. Positive emotions are great for encouraging us to think positive and build positive emotions around our relationships. As Dr. John Gottman says “In the most optimistic moments, I find that I love my spouse more than I love my life.” When we are in the most positive emotional moments, we tend to create positive feelings and thoughts around others, thus improving our relationships.
– cultivate feelings of gratitude: One of the most powerful ways to attract love is to foster feelings of gratitude. One of the main elements of love is gratitude, therefore, spending time expressing feelings of gratitude to another person can have a very powerful impact. Expressing feelings of gratitude can lead to increased generosity and charity. Studies have shown that couples that show feelings of affectionate affection to each other on a regular basis, receive more gifts from others, give more money to others, make larger purchases, become more assertive and less defensive. By practicing expressing feelings of gratitude on a daily basis, you will be sending out positive messages to others that they will want to hear.
– cultivate feelings of self-love: The other important quality that Jesus taught his followers was to love one another and be kind to others. Self-love is another key component to developing a relationship with another person. People who love themselves are people who are happy. People who are happy are people who treat themselves with kindness. So, the next time you feel like your love for yourself is being blocked by other people, remember that loving oneself is a great way to improve your relationships.
