Reply #30: Maybe we don't love ourselves because we are taught NOT to. [View All]

[Pathwalker]

From what I read in this thread, everyone is a nurturer - fulfilling a role that society has taught us to do, yet we are also taught that this role has no value.

Do we honor those who give up their essential, authentic self so that others may thrive? Only if you are a size 00, look like Collista Flockhart or Pamela Anderson Barbie. Only if we use XYZ cleaner, Moisturizer, scrub rush,etc., while looking like we've never cleaned anything in our lives!
Got a wrinkle - cure it with BOTOX, and while you're at it - have a party for it, so all your friends can "cure" their wrinkles, too. Because, what a terrible thing it is to have a face that shows you've been touched by life!
Got grey hair? DYE it, hide it, camoflague it with Clairol, NiceNEasy, or Loreal; after all - you're worth it - IF you're pretty enough. Because we know, only men look good with grey hair.
Got extra weight - get rid of it fast, with GHY, HNV, or whatever the latest diet craze is today, because we all know - you're only loved if you're small enough.

Every thing we see on TV, in print or in ads everywhere we look PROGRAMS us to be dissatisfied with how we LOOK - as if that is the real true measure of WHO we are. I have yet to see a commercial that actually celebrates our SPIRITUAL side, our TRUE authentic, essential self, perhaps because when we focus in on THAT part of ourselves, we are moving beyond our needs for those products they push on us.
So, to even TRY to push past that barrage of programming is an act of courage for which you should all love yourselves! You know, in your heart, that you are more than just a human DOING, and in fact something far greater that has no need for artiface. YOU are a soul, residing in a body, living in a society that does not even acknowledge its existence, let alone its eternal value.
Your soul loves you, too - that's why it's telling you to ignore society's "programming", and love yourself.