One of our community members sent me this today. It is SO TRUE! You know I love it. We should all follow this lady and get refreshed with wisdom as we learn to
LOVE OURSELVES more and more every day...
From Sherrie Campbell, PhD
Loving
yourself is the key to learning to think for YOURSELF. If you do not
love yourself you cannot think for yourself. If you cannot think for
yourself you cannot possibly make healthy decisions. If you cannot
think for yourself then you become someone who simply follows orders.
You end up doing what other people tell you to do instead of doing what
you know in your gut is the right thing to do.
If you are an
'order-follower' you are constantly operating out of fear and
self-doubt. You have become so alienated from your own self that you
are not comfortable anywhere around anyone and you have not clarity on
who you really are.
It is fascinating that the greatest damage is never
created by people who love themselves and are risk taking. The
greatest damage is caused by those who take orders (do what they are
told to do). They drop reckless bombs and create massacres destroying
the most precious and innocent things.
Loving ourselves connects us to
our OWN answers and those come from within not without. You should
always question advice from the outside by balancing it against your
inside and the bigger picture not the short-sightedness of 'winning'
something. We all have the power to find our own answers and answers
that come from this are not dangerous or harmful to others. They may
help set boundaries but solutions are always involved as is the highest
good for all involved.
If you are simply taking orders the Universe
will not be in your favor because you are not using your naturally given
internal guidance system. The gifts of being self-loving only benefit
all those whose lives you touch.
