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How to practice self love

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What is practice self love? It's focusing on being your own best friend, being your own motivator, being your own best care taker, being your own rock, being your own support system.   Why is it required? Because if you keep searching outside your-self to be loved or feel loved, you will ALWAYS be searching. There are days, weeks, months or even years, you may not have someone in your life who "loves" you, but you can  and should count on loving your-self. Self-love doesn't happen by luck or the grace of God. You have to create it. Self love and self validation allows you to be happy from within and not waiting or constantly searching for someone to love you. That shit is exhausting. I know it's much easier said than done. I've struggled with it all my life. HOW TO practice self love Love yourself how you'd WANT others to love you. It's the easiest and the hardest thing to do but you have to start...

Happiness - I will be happy when...

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"I will be happy when..." (A post I read on Huffington Post , author unknown) This innocent comment is the very reason that happiness is so elusive for us in the modern world. We think: I will be happy when I have a successful relationship. I will be happy when I find a job. I will be happy when I'm out of this relationship. I'll be happy when I get that job promotion. I will be happy when my kid gets into the right school. The formula is clear: arbitrarily-defined success, then happiness. Think about how some people conceive of relationships: "I am unhappy being single, so I will be happy when I am dating the person of my dreams." I had a friend in high school tell me that he would never be happy until he methis other half. This is exactly the formula of "I will be happy when..." We don't quote Freud much anymore, but he did get one thing right: Freud said we leak information through every pore. Our brains are designed to look past thi...