Practicing self-love is not the easiest thing to do. Many times if we really look deep, we may find we have a difficult time accepting ourselves for who we are.

It’s healthy to be motivated and want to be better, but what are the reasons we want to be better? Is it because we are discontent with who we are now? Do we constantly compare our lives to others and feel we have less? Do we feel we should be in a different place and have not achieved as much as we should have?

Appreciating ourselves and accepting who we are today – not who we can become later – means having the faith to know you are exactly where you should be at the present time and following the divine path that is always ahead of you, one step at a time.

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself ~ Barbara De Angelis

To actually know how to love ourselves and practice self-love on a daily basis takes practice. Understanding that your Source Creator is comprised of only pure unconditional love should make it easier to understand, but the human experience gets in the way.

When we are born, we are self-centered. We understand and consider only our own needs. Babies know how perfect they are. They are totally unaware of anything other than getting their own needs met. They understand their own worth and consider themselves first.

Is it wrong to be so self-centered and seek to meet your own needs first? It is only when we begin to grow up that we notice our “shortcomings”; we start to doubt our worth and seek to please others first. It’s not wrong for a baby and it’s certainly not wrong for you.

To love an honor yourself enough to meet your own needs first is necessary to practice the greatest love of all – self-love.