How Do You Treat Yourself?

How often do we tend to admonish ourselves for doing something wrong or making an inappropriate comment or in general, letting ourselves down? We are often our hardest task masters.

So the question is how well do you treat yourself? I was asked once something that made me totally change the way I treated myself. The question that was posed to me was, "Would you be friends with someone who treated you the same way you treat yourself?" My response was no and it made me realize how harshly I had been treating myself. So what if I made a mistake - as along as I learned something from the experience and did not cause another person any harm. We tend to grow more as a person after facing obstacles or challenges but our conditioning have made us believe that mistakes are not acceptable or not good enough. I know that's what I had believed for a long time before I started doing personal development work and realized the gift that my daily challenges gave me.

Life isn't always going to be smooth sailing. We will encounter rough waters and when we do, it is important to realize that it's our time to grow just a little bit more. Therefore, we must treat ourselves the same way we expect others to treat us and also the same way we will treat a loved one. When we do that, every experience in life will be a tremendous gift.

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