Why Is It So Hard For Us To Love Ourselves? — Is Self Love Selfish?

Adayah Asha
15 min readOct 10, 2022

Many individuals are afraid to act selfishly because they know it would bring about negative results, or karma. Even so, we’ve all heard that self-love is prerequisite to loving another person.

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Most people go through life without giving much regard to their internal experiences or external actions.

Without giving it any thought, we usually just go with our gut or the way things have always been done.

While we want to believe that we have complete control over our lives, the fact is that the vast majority of us might benefit from developing a keener awareness of our own personalities.

To live a healthy and happy life, it is essential that we are in tune with our own thoughts, feelings, and actions, from understanding when we need a break to recognizing when we are being insensitive to others.

Gaining A Better Understanding

Being present-minded means being in tune with one’s inner world, which includes one’s own strengths and shortcomings, values, and motives.

Although challenging, this kind of reflection is worthwhile because it helps you learn to appreciate yourself and others more fully.

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Adayah Asha
Adayah Asha

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