Self-Love: Is It Even Possible During This Pandemic?
Millions of people are suffering, because of financial challenges, health challenges, relationship challenges, and more.
So, in the middle of this pandemic, is it even possible to practice self-love?
David Essel, a number one best-selling author, counselor, minister, and more has been helping people over the last number of months re-learn the practice of self-love even in the middle of this horrendous pandemic.
Below, David shares his experience of over 40 years in this industry, giving you ideas, thoughts, and tips on how you can start to integrate more self-love right now.
“Self-love, it’s something that millions of books have been written about, your parents maybe even have told you how important it was when you were a child to love yourself… But how many of us are pulling this off during one of the strangest, most challenging times in the history of our country?
This is the time, to decrease stress, to increase compassion, understanding, compromise, and more… In other words this is the time to start practicing self-love.
Below are just a few of the areas that individuals who are practicing self-love, or incorporating it into their life every week:
Number One. Self-love and our bodies. Your body is your temple, to worship, to treat beautifully, and one of the keys to self-love is to make sure that we’re eating properly, exercising daily, and truly proving to ourselves that our body is our temple.
Number Two. Patience with ourselves. This is a hallmark of people who practice self-love. Instead of getting down on ourselves for choices we made, we become more patient with ourselves, we understand that we’re under a lot of stress, and we don’t add to the stress by becoming impatient with our progress in any area of life.
Number Three. Self-forgiveness. Those on a path of self-love will forgive themselves for errors made, in regards to choices in our lifestyle with food, alcohol, drugs, television, and more.
If you look at the lifestyle you’re in right now, and it’s not healthy, we need to start forgiving ourselves for the choices we made under stress and at the same time reach out for help to make the lifestyle choices and changes necessary right now, not tomorrow, but now.
Number Four. Self-love also includes forgiving others who may have hurt us during this stressful time.
Every week we have more and more clients coming into my practice, complaining about their partners, their children, their coworkers, and their bosses.
If you have people close to you, who have hurt you during this pandemic, work with a professional to learn how to forgive to move on.
When you forgive someone, it doesn’t mean we’re accepting their behavior that may have been inappropriate, we’re forgiving them so we don’t carry the battle scars and the anger in our hearts any longer.
Number Five. Self-love also includes gratitude, for the changes we’re trying to make during this very stressful pandemic. Even if you’re only walking 15 or 20 minutes a day have gratitude that you’re taking the time out to do that.
If you cut back on your time on social media, which I think all of us should be doing right now, we should have gratitude for the fact that we’re doing something that might be quite difficult right now.
If you see the need to cut back on the amount of food that you’re eating, or alcohol you’re drinking, or money you’re spending unnecessarily, this is the time to have gratitude for in the middle of the pandemic you’re making changes!
Self-love sound so easy, but it’s not. If you need help to learn how to get yourself back into a beautiful state of the self-love, reach out to a professional counselor or minister or therapist, or life coach and get the help you need today. Prove that you’re worth it. Prove that you are deserving of self-love.“
David Essel‘s work is highly endorsed by individuals like the late Wayne Dyer, and celebrity Jenny McCarthy says “David Essel is the new leader of the positive thinking movement.“
His work as a counselor and minister has been verified by organizations like psychology today, and marriage.com which has verified David as one of the top counselors and relationship experts in the world.
If you would like some help on learning the deep art of self-love, work with David one on one from anywhere in the world via Skype or phone at www.DavidEssel.com
