Posted by trey on August 19, 1999, at 18:49:41
In reply to It's simple. Isn't it?, posted by Cass on August 17, 1999, at 17:32:00
Love yourself, love yourself, love YOURSELF.
If you love yourself first, you can love others without fear of loss. For to love yourself, you must know yourself. Getting to know yourself is incredibly difficult work, and that's why we all battle our depressions. But the depression is a healthy sign from yourself telling you that a Higher part of yourself has already given you permission to love yourself. If the pain ever gets to be too much, your Higher self will lift the depression from your shoulders. When it sets back in again, you will know that you have once again given yourself permission. Don't ever give up! The fog WILL eventually lift. Eventually your depression will lessen until your realize that you ARE REALLY BEAUTIFUL! Not just because someone said you were, but because YOU KNOW IT. You may wonder what I mean by all of these "selves" I am referring to. I already mentioned your Higher self, but there are two others. One is your rational self which watches the conflict going on and tries to make sense of it all. The other is your inner child. Your inner child was badly traumatized and feels guilty. Your inner child feels like he or she is to blame for the pain and loss it once experienced. But all of this trauma happened to you long before you could even speak or begin to express yourself, before you even could begin to understand the world you were born into. You were innocent. I'll quote Sarah McLachlan - "We are born innocent...WE ARE STILL INNOCENT." Your Higher Self wants to heal your inner child. When you are depressed, it's your inner child that is being touched in a very intimate way and is an expression of all of the confusion and lack of understanding that you had as an infant. Have faith in your Higher Self. It knows what is best for you and will always protect you; will only give you as much as you can handle. Know that, love yourself, and begin to heal.
poster:trey
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/19990814/msgs/10382.html