How can we learn to love and accept ourselves?

Answer 1

We can start just by meditating. Feel totally in control of yourself and accept your failures, your conqoures and just accept yourself!

Answer 2

Start with this:

Take a look at all of your faults that you have a problem with. If you see some that are fixable, then do so. Fix what you can, or if you have tried and you didn't get what you expected, then you will probably find that what you need to realize is that you are not the only person with faults. Millions of people across the globe have problems and things they do not like about themselves. Having faults is a natural every day thing. Just accept them as a part of who you are and you will soon find yourself okay with who you are and love every day of being you.

Answer 3

Most people are programmed in this society to hate themselves or at least to not like themselves very much. We are taught that to love oneself is pride or egotism. that's not true. We are all worthwhile human beings and there's nothing wrong with holding oneself in the same regard as one holds anyone else. When tempted to be hard on yourself, think, would I say or do this to a friend? Recognise that this is false conditioning, to dislike or hate oneself, and it does no one any good. Then work on it from there. There are all sorts of methods in conventional and alternative healing to address this problem, the first step is to realise that this is a problem of faulty thinking in thinking oneself unworthy. As human beings, we all have dignity and worth, and there is scarce little difference between the greatest of us and the least of us, in the eyes of the higher powers.

Answer 4

You learn to love and accept yourself by not depending on others to make you happy because everyone will have different opinions. You are the only person who make yourself truly happy, and that comes by how you perceive things in your life and accepting who you are. Also to know that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to.

That's me anyway

Answer 5

It isn't about loving and accepting ourselves, it is about loving and accepting others. If you do that for a while, you will feel good about yourself and your goals.

Answer 6

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is—to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!
—§283
from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.283, Walter Kaufmann transl

Answer 7

By acknowledging that we are weak, we become strong; by being poor we make ourselves rich; by acknowledging this and loving the Lord Jesus Christ we accept that we are not all powerful but with God he will raise us up and give us strength.

God Bless,
Elisha

Answer 8

I already do,I do not know the answer.I am very spiritual and am always trying to improve my self.Because I love myself ,I help others and it makes love easy.I guess we need to look within our selves and our devine self will give us the answers.Helping others gives me a real purpose in life and i know i am doing what i am suppose to do on earth.I also do for myself ,but it is not harming any one and people are invited to do things with me

Answer 9

Once you have asked Christ to forgive your sins, forgive others and forgive yourself.

When you forgive others, just let all the bad feelings go, it’s like a giant weight is lifted and you can truly respond to others with love.

When you forgive yourself, really forgive yourself completely, you dump all the old bad feelings and begin to see yourself as Christ sees you.

Now you can not only accept yourself but truly begin to live as you’re supposed to live.

Answer 10

We must first realize that God loves us enough that He chose to send his only begotten Son to the earth, to give his life as a sacrifice for every one of our sins. He did not do so because we deserved it, but because He is a God of love and mercy and of grace. And He also expects us to care for our own self, and to accept ourself as his creations. Of course we are to love our own self, but not as though we have done anything to deserve to be loved. By loving our own self, I mean that we are to take proper care of our own body, for it is truly the temple of God's Holy Spirit; that is, if we have allowed the Lord Jesus Christ to save our soul, and to be the Lord of our life. And just because we may not have the same gifts and abilities as others around us may have, does not give us any right to think any less of our self. As long as we attempt to allow the Lord Jesus to have full control of our life, then we must look at ourself in an acceptable manner. For if we allow Jesus to have full control, then He will see to it that the work is done in our life that we be all that He desires for us to be. And what is acceptable unto Him, should surely be acceptable unto us. Just look unto the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will make you to be a very acceptable person; one who can walk and live your life with Christian pride.