How to love yourself

I received a comment from someone who was unfortunately extremely self-conscious about her body. This had been going on for 10 years, she had tried everything but she hates her body, and most of the time completely disassociated from it altogether. I won't get into detail about some of the things that were mentioned but this was my response.

"Notice that through all this time, your body loved you unconditionally. Your heart continues to beat, your food is digested, your eyes can see. No matter what kind of energy you throw at it, it continues to love and serve you. This is God, or the universe or whatever label you prefer. This energy is always rooting for you, always serving, always sending you an endless amount of support guidance and well-being. Regardless of what you think or how you behave. Just take a moment, this moment, to breath and say thank you, and realize, this is not you, you are not hating your body. Take a step back, you are not these thoughts, these feelings, these emotions, these traumas, these memories. You are the commander, who has forgotten their nature. Who has been tricked into identifying with this human, like hopping in a car and forgetting you are the driver. Identifying yourself as the car. The car hates itself, the car has preferences and goals and worries. But you are driving. Drive down another street. You are at the wheel of your life. You have much more control than you think you do. It would be so unethical to bring a child into this life knowing that it is here to just deal with being a human, without choices, without control over their emotions and feelings and challenges and such. That is not the case. Take a stand. There's no need to fight anything. Just be here now. Sit in the present moment and just enjoy what's here. Why? Because why not? Ask yourself this: do I want to be happy?

I hope this helps, it's all over the place but I want you to know that you are loved and you do not need to go through this any longer." YouTube link in bio

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