Why Self-compassion Is More Important Than You Think
Do you really love and care for yourself enough? If you do not have a problem, the outer word could affect you. But instead of mastering self compassion most of us seek love, attention and kindness from the outer world. Also we are ready to sacrifice anything to get it. Most times in that journey we lose ourselves. Check out why self-compassion is more important than you think.
Who is the most important person in your life? You may tell it’s your spouse or other family members or your friends. Loving others is definitely great. But putting others first by forgetting yourself is a crime against yourself. Self compassion, self care is not the same as selfishness. Only those who master self compassion really know how to express compassion to others.
When you face a difficult problem in work or in personal life who would you approach? Someone who know how to handle that situation? Right? If that’s the case how can you really love and care for others without loving and caring yourself enough? It’s not possible. Self compassion is the foundation of a meaningful life.
The one person who is always with your every single second of your life is you. You may have strong beautiful relationships. But those people can’t always be with you. Sometimes you have to walk the path alone. Sometimes you have to make decisions alone. If you are an overly dependent person, a person who can’t do anything by himself your life becomes nothing short of a hell. But if you are a person who exactly knows how to care for his body and mind, how to make decisions alone, your life becomes much easier.
Being self compassionate means you know exactly you want out of life and show the will to achieve it with your own effort. But to know yourself deeply you have to analyse yourself precisely. If you look closely at what works for you and what all not, your decision making process becomes so easier. Only a self loving, self compassionate person can do that. Those who follow others blindly can’t really know themselves well.
When you could define what you are and what you are not that’s where to start to live the real life. To reach that level you have to put yourself first in your life. Most of us are afraid to do so because we are afraid we may lose people, relations. This is a totally wrong conception. Because everybody wants to follow a person who knows exactly how to lead a meaningful life.
People who walk away from your life when you start to follow your heart are people who actually don’t deserve a place in your life. People who really love you always want to see constant growth in your life. They never stop you from following your heart.
So, even love and attention from others come to your life automatically when you love and care for yourself enough. Self sacrifice never helps you to reach anywhere in life. That’s not love. Only those who don’t know how to value their life do such things. On the other hand those who know the value of life always care and love themselves enough. Because they know without self love, self respect and self compassion there is no life.