You Would Learn Self-Love is the Most Important Love

Around the age of 8 years old everyone would be required to learn about self-esteem. They would learn that self-esteem is a realistic respect for or favorable impression of oneself; self-respect.

Self-esteem has been defined as ego. The ego has also been defined as the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment.

Most people think that to love yourself is an act of conceitedness. Conceitedness is having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities and/or appearance.

You would be required to learn to love yourself and respect yourself. Most people only eat healthy because they fear illness and/or want to look good. What if you ate healthy because you loved yourself and you did it for you and not out of fear and not out of ego or conceit?

When you learn the value of self-esteem you would also learn to set boundaries. You would not put other people's needed before those of your own. Women especially need to learn this. At an early age we are taught that women are care givers. I think that women are more nurturing than men and this is a good thing. However, more and more men and women are sacrificing their wants, needs and desires for someone else. I am here to tell you.. you aren't going to get points at the Pearly White Gates for playing martyr.

I personally don't know how anyone can love and respect another if they can't love and respect themselves. If you learn how to love and respect yourself you will naturally be able to love and respect another.

So if I were God the commandment would be - Thou Shalt Learn the Value of Self-Esteem.

With Love & Light ~