We all love our family and are willing to do a lot of things for them. We would like to spend more time with our family members. In the lower age group, young people give a very high value to their friends. They love their friends more than anything else and want to hang out with their friends a lot. For a little older age, they give more importance toward their boyfriend or girlfriend. These represent all the loves we gave away to our love ones. No matter how importance they are, we always forget to give love to another one person who is the most important person in this world to us. It is us.

We live in a society that takes ourselves for grant. We care about other people so much that we forget to give the importance to ourselves. We seldom spend time alone. There is always circumstance and it always pushes us back to the society where we do not have time for ourselves. Do you have the strategy for loving yourself? What have to happen in order to you to feel loved? Let me recommend a few tips for the one who wants to love oneself and give the value strongly to his existence. The tips are:

• Take good care of your health. Health originates all the possibilities in our life. Cherish your body like it is a sacred place. Do not throw in garbage into your body. Learn about nutrition and practice it will help enable the body to be with you for a long time. Make sure that we eat in the right proportion to your body. Make a good choice of food each time you have a meal. Avoid unhealthy foods that can add more weight into your body. Avoid suspicious food that may lead to sickness. Minimize alcohol consumption. Quit it if you can. Do not take drugs or cigarette. Avoid polluted environment and try not to make one yourself. Drink at least eight glasses or two liters of clean water daily. Avoid pop soda, candy, sweets, or ice cream since they can create more acidic environment into your blood. Take care of your weight. Learn about body mass index (BMI) and make your body in the proper range. Over or under weight people have neither good personality nor fine mentality to deal with the situation.

• Spend time alone with yourself. The best time is in the morning when our mind is clear from all negative impact. That is when you have the strongest mind power. Make sure that you slot some interval in your day at least thirty minutes to be with yourself. Tell other people that this is the time that you need to spend with the most important person in the world and you need privacy. Do not use any media during this time. Turn your radio, TV off. Do nothing but be quiet with yourself.

• Feeling of gratitude. Be grateful to be born to be you. You are the most significant person in this world for you. No one else in this world can use your name and can use the same pronoun as you. Not any one in this world can use the word “I” and refer to you except yourself. You are lucky being you and be thankful for that. Be thankful for everything that has happened and brings you here.

• Exercise daily. Do it at least thirty minutes a day. Take both anaerobic and aerobic exercises. Do it alternately if you do not have time. You may find a partner to exercise together so that you can enjoy doing it more. If you do not have time, however, make sure that you do this at least three or four times per week. Making regular exercise to help your cardiovascular’ function be better.

• Visualize yourself as successful. Self visualization will enable you to be stronger and can attract the situation or attributes you want into your life. See yourself in the future achieving all you want. See yourself a very health person with good relationship to your family. See yourself successful in your career and successful financially. Visualize yourself successful spiritually. Making visualization on every aspect of your life will help you achieve what you want faster. Then this is one of the key in the self-love process.

After practicing above process regularly, you will feel love and be loved by yourself. This will lead to the actualization process that is very rewarding to your mind.

We express our love to others so often that we some time forget to express it to our self. We some time take ourselves for grant and do not care for our existence. In this article, we talk about how to express self-love and how to enjoy life at the fullest level.

Jim Somchai
May 24/ 2007