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Edition 2: Love/Relationships Love/Relationships: What is this thing called Love! At times in my life love has been elusive, like a spider's web, that is flimsy or like gold dust trickling through my fingers. At other times it has made my heart sing and I have felt a warm glow run through my body. Through my journey on this earthly plane, I have come to realise that before I can love another and receive love from others, I must first love myself. This has been difficult, as society has thrown out at us that only vain people love themselves. And we must avoid this at all cost and what a cost it has been! In the Bible it says Love your neighbour as yourself - but if we do not love ourselves first - then how can we love our neighbours. However, things are not as dismal as they seem. In learning to love ourselves, we can open the doorway to heaven. Not in some distant place but within ourselves. In learning to love ourselves we can experience so much more than before. But how do we learn to love ourselves? Simply stated by accepting all parts of ourselves, accepting the good, bad and indifferent and doing it now. Look at the things you don't like about yourself and be willing to change them. If you have a short temper or you are impatient, find out why. What is the trigger? Does getting angry or impatient make you feel any better, if not, then be willing to change. Louise L. Hay says on Relationships - "It seems all of life is a relationship". "We have relationships with everything". The relationship we have with others is a reflection of the relationship we have with ourselves. People are excellent mirrors of how we see ourselves. If we like something in another person, it is either because we have the same quality or because we would like to have that quality. It also works on the negative side, If we don't like something in another person, it could mean that we have the same quality and if we have difficulty in looking at ourselves in a mirror then we will have difficulty in getting along with this particular person. Isn't life wonderful - It is a gift to allow us to see things that we would not normally want to see and acknowledge. As in all things in life there is hope and when we acknowledge the things we don't like, we can then start working on improving ourselves. Once we have overcome the things in our lives that we don't look, the people who have been our mirrors/our guiding light will either change or move away. To help you with the challenges you face with Love/Relationships that you may have, please go to the Affirmations page and choose an Affirmation that can assist you to realise the full potential of who you are. This page is best printed on A4 landscape  A Raptor creation Contents and images ©2000 Inner Healings All rights reserved |