Learning to Love Ourselves :)

[bagger015]

Just For Today
March 8 Learning To Love Ourselves

"We'll love you until you can learn to love yourself." These words, heard
so often in our meetings, promise a day we look forward to eagerly-the
day when we'll now how to love ourselves.

Self-esteem-we all want this elusive quality as soon as we hear about
it. Some of us seem to stumble upon it accidentally, while others
embark on a course of action complete with affirmations made to our
reflections in the mirror. but fix-it-yourself techniques and trendy
psychological cures can only take us so far.

There are some definite, practical steps we can take to show love
for ourselves, whether we "feel" that love or not. We can take
care of our personal responsibilities. We can do nice things for
ourselves, as we would for a lover or a friend. We can start paying
attention to our own needs. We can even pay attention to qualities that
we cherish in our friends-qualities like intelligence and humor-and look
for those same qualities in ourselves. We're sure to find that we really
are lovable people, and once we do that, we're well on our way.

Just for today: I will do something today that helps me
recognize and feel love for myself.

Just For Today Daily Meditation is the property of Narcotics Anonymous ©
1991 by World Service Office Inc.

[carolsongs]

THANKYOU BAGGER, today was a rough day for me, confusion, fear and caos came back to visit for a while, but in all thisI didnt think i could take care of me, sitting quiet and trying to think of the good and remembering my hopes and dreams for me . chased away all of that stuff , so i guess after reading this i did love me today , i didnt know i could take care of me , i usually stayed in that state for weeks, thank god i guess im growing and healing, carolyn , carolsongs, thanks for your caring enough to post these writings.

[majestyjo]

"We'll love you until you can learn to love yourself."

These were words that kept me going back to Al-Anon. It was through them that I was introduced to ACoA. I was glad that I had already come to the realization that I also had my own disease of addiction and that I too had become an alcoholic before I went to the ACoA meetings or I might have died in my denial. I identified so much with the program.

They loved me back to good health. They loved me when I couldn't love myself.