Self-love
Self-love is the most overlooked ingredient to one’s happiness. It is often confused with self-care. While self-care practices can conduce to some degree of self-love, they are not self-love in themselves. Self-love is taking care of one’s needs. It is loving oneself enough for taking care of its own needs rather than expecting someone or something else to do it for us. More specifically, it is living according to one’s soul’s needs. It involves cultivating the universal qualities of love, acceptance, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and generosity for oneself and others, as well as your individual soul specific needs which can be creative expression, practice of gratitude, connecting with your heart, connecting with nature, connecting with your body and emotions, etc.
