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Why Self Love Alone Isn't Enough

Why Self Love Alone Isn't Enough

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Self-love is often talked about because it's something many of us struggle with. In a world that constantly bombards us with unrealistic standards and pressures, cultivating genuine self love can feel like navigating a maze blindfolded. Everyone nowadays is obsessed with consumption content on self-love, self-care, and personal development, but is self love truly enough for us to feel content and happy in our lives Today we are spilling the tea on why self love isn't enough and what we can do instead to better ourselves and genuinely improve our lives, relationships, mental health, and well-being
Date: 2024-04-19

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Unfortunately, a 4 minute video essay like this isn't really enough to elaborate on a topic like self-Love and the various aspects which have been discerned about it over the years. Self-love doesn't mean anything without deeper explanation to begin with. One thing the video does help with is pointing out the idea that there's a social aspect to love. Of course anyone familiar with love will know there's already a social aspect tied to it. Self-love is not about the 'sole concern of the self' on exclusion to the wider reality we exist in. Though clearly it would seem like that since the word self-is tied to love in such a way, but this is not an exclusionary act. Self-love is about focusing on the self-aspect of love, while maintaining that all the other aspects still exist, such as Social-love, Friend-love, or other forms of love which all necessarily exist within the scope of love. Self-love, then is the generation of compassion, understanding, erudition, care, expression, responsibility, and respect one ought to cultivate which constitutes their understanding of the self.
Love in general is a word which is a process of expression through understanding, care, respect, responsibility, humility, and so forth. Love contains many such concepts which can be elucidated on to no end and each illumination can bring about new insights as to how to improve our loving aspect. Therefore, it makes sense to acknowledge all the different forms of love which exist and to also work on these individually and in concert. Self-love teaches us a great deal about how we carry ourselves forward, what compassion means for the treatment of our own decisions and experiences. It also teaches us how to have compassion for others, as we can apply that compassion to others in equal measure through our expressions, words, and learned technique. For example, how does one express courage The only way to know this is to examine our relationship with the very concept of courage and how we could possibly express it. Such an examination needs to relate how we feel with our expressions, our beliefs, and how we carry ourselves forward in both personal and inter-personal ways.
So, while I don't fully approve of the length of this video, it does offer a perspective, that there's still love, specifically, other kinds of love, that matter. Self-love is just one aspect of a bigger picture which ultimately includes all of us.

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You CANNOT have Self Love withOUT Self AWARENESS. So many people say they love themselves without even KNOWING who they ARE FIRST which is how it devolves into Self Cuddling and Narcissism
1. You need to Understand who you are first ie develop Self Awareness
2. This would then make you Self Accountable since you'll understand your actions and why you do them
3. Being Accountable of your self makes you develop Self DISCIPLINE since you now hold yourself to higher a standard and know how to develop yourself into something better
4. Having discipline to do what has to be done, awards you Self RESPECT as you care about yourself enough to better your life
5. Finally you end up at Self LOVE at the VERY END of the process. Because after making the COMMITMENT to IMPROVE yourself. how can you say you dont Love Yourself
The reason a lot of people are lost is because they START with Self Love FIRST. without putting in the ACTUAL WORK to give themselves a REASON to LOVE themselves.
Which is why so many still feel so EMPTY after practicing their SHALLOW idea of Love. And this extends waaay beyond just SELF love.
Society has COMPLETELY LOST the plot when it comes to love and what that REALLY means. Too many people are caught up in the Shallow idea of it, which explains the fundamental breakdown of relationships, from family to friends to intimate. People have NO idea where to start when it comes to loving themselves so they STRUGGLE to love others properly.
Which explains the most connected but LONELIEST generation. Everything has become TOO SUPERFICIAL
As noted in the vid humans aren't infinitely stable creatures so we'll fall short and have to revisit this process several times throughout our lives. So you WILL NEED OTHER people in your life to REMIND you of what HEALTHY LOVE feels like

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I’m curious about the author of this. Self love doesn’t exclude loving others or being loved. This is where I would turn to more spiritual discussions on the topic. I’m surprised that this wasn’t viewed from an angle of loving oneself as a means of not constantly seeking love outside of oneself to the point of falling prey to manipulative people. I would also think we need to look at codependency and some people’s constant need for external validation/love.
Some people do not live in safe environments to give or receive love. Couldn’t self love help them navigate an unsafe environment & help the person get support to help them learn to trust people after a trauma There are sadly way too many abusive people who may or may not be conscious of their behavior. I’m very surprised Psych to Go would even talk about self love as a pathway to narcissism. That’s an actual psychological condition that seems related to past trauma, insecure personalities and projecting fake self confidence. Is narcissism really a love of self Personally, I don’t think narcissists love themself given how they treat others.
I feel this video over emphasizes external over internal care/love. Maybe it’s a balance. We have to live with ourselves forever whether our external sources of love outlive us or not.
Some religions teach external, reciprocal love of an unseen force/deity. Perhaps that is a more acceptable way to approach self love given this author’s perspective. Technically, the physical experience of this external love exists within one’s mind. However, I understand that may be up for debate.

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Good video. I'm glad it triggered me into an emotional flashback. Helped me question and deconstruct various traumatic programming I ended up running on for years.
Self-love is a fascinating topic. What is the self in the first place To me, it's a broad umbrella term. From a certain height of consciousness, the entirety of all existence is the Self. So to love oneself is to love one's life.
Then what is the best way to do that To use everything, life throws at us to sharpen our virtue. It can include learning how to be loved or fulfilling the needs that were repressed or shame bound.
What true self love is, is the life one lives, the intention one brings into every day. The art project one makes of their character and limited time here. The unconditional commitment one makes to oneself. To be the most one can be.
That life is a contribution to the world, to a larger state of mankind, to ones own family, and then, of course, to this individual sense of identity we all possess.
Sometimes, it is to rest. Sometimes, it is to push oneself when one is lazy. But it is important to be solid within who you are. Because those are the best relations. When one is a full cup. Then, one can pour into another. Yet it is also important to understand when your cup is empty. To have humility of that fact that we all are simply finite creatures. That we need to be filled at times, too.

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Finding friends is much much much much much much easier said than done when those in the past started ignoring you probably due to personal problems in their lives, no matter how many helpful and amazing videos you people upload: (
There's ONE friend I have but she's in a long term relation and lives in another country by now, lives a different life.
My parents are both dead, I have no siblings and no contact with any potential aunt or uncles of which at least one of my uncles also turned kinda into a Corona is a method to dictate us type of person, which hurts badly.
No time or space for a pet either, so all I really can do is counting down days until I am no more. Local authorities already proofed to me when mom died shortly before the pandemic that everything she had will be destroyed, which is why I don't see much value in my existence and meaning anymore either.
My boss ever since I lost my mother said I shall get my shit together and while readers of this comment could say just get another job, that is something not as easy with multiple disabilities and low graduation.
Oddly enough, I enjoy my life whenever possible but the social aspect is brutally messed up.

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I like to challenging perspectives like this. I once thought self love and the love of others are inseparable. I thought one cannot exist without the other. I thought that if you don't love yourself, you don't fully love others as well, which I still think is true. But I also thought that if you don't love others, you don't love yourself - and this is something I now disagree. And no, I'm not referring at narcissism or anything like that, I'm referring at true self love that can exist without loving others. Bc I think I'm like that now. Not loving others does not necessarily mean hating others - for me is more like not being interested in others. And I still have empathy. I still can feel bad if someone is hurt and good if someone is happy. But while I feel connected with myself and I can confidently say that I love myself more than ever, I feel disconnected from others. I have friends but there's still something that separate me from them.
I feel like self love is the base love that makes you want to live no matter what happens, but the love for others and from others, is like a gift - that's why it feels so good

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Self love is a concept and once you learn and adopt it, you should apply it in all areas of your life. It is more like a lifestyle. It is definitely the more difficult kind of love to achieve, but when you really understand it you will have more fulfilling relationships with the people around you. I don't think self love should be compared with exterior love because these are 2 different subjects. The key here is to love yourself enough so that you can experience other types of love at the fullest. If you don't love yourself and just expect to receive love from the exterior, you will find eventually that nothing really fulfills you and you can't be 100% happy even if you have a partner. That's why so many relationships or marriages end. It seems that even many psychologists didn't understand what self love really is or didn't experience it truly, otherwise they wouldn't even compare it with the other types of love. When you love yourself for real, the exterior love becomes a choice, not a necessity. That's it!
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self-love in my opinion is like an imbalanced meal, you also need the love of others to make it more balanced. think of self-love as the basis for love that builds yourself, and the love from others fills in the rest. Yes, at the end of the day, you'll be with yourself but no man's an island. I find that a lot of people nowadays tend to lean too much on self-love and forget to love others and appreciate what others give to them, leading to people to turn to themselves more. This is why social media is brimming with people just filling terabytes of data of their faces. I also think people are afraid to get hurt, which is normal, but you have to put yourself out there to get love.
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3: 13 but narcissists don't actually feel good about themselves that's why they gotta leech it off of others they are emotional/mental/spiritual/physical vampires, and are sooo insatiable! I learned it comes from deep shame and no empathy, Not excessive self-love that's the facade; superiority that stems from their inferiority complex!
Happy healthy/secure/confident humans love themselves in a healthy way.
Highly empathetic humans usually don't have enough boundaries, are often burdened down cause vampires dump, and are not healed up fully.
Insecures narcs are just bullies and everyone knows that their inflated ego is sooo fragile because of such deep self-hatred!

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Ohh maaan, I'm a little late: , but I think this topic is kinda remind me with myself, because for my own experience of getting bullied in school and having kinda uncaring parents about my mental health, locking myself and waiting things so just fix by themselves never worked, nah this year i kinda fixed some of this problems in school, and after like putting myself in the right place with right people, i felt like. a Little more alive, I'm not gonna talk about that thing to mush but also remember guys DON'T change yourself or do things that you don't want to do to be loved! Because this is not how it works, and NEVER Link your self worth with others
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I've always thought that the human being needs all the types of love to feel truly appreciated. Is not enough by being loved only by yourself, or only by your family, or only by another person.
My parents have always said that I'm exaggerating by saying I feel lonely because I've never felt loved outside my family, and that it's ungrateful to not appreciate the love they give me. (Not that they can understand me. I'm 20 with no friends or girlfriend while they have a lot of friends and found the love of their life at 15. But if the love of your family was enough, there wouldn't be so much couples in the world. All kinds of love are necessary.

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Self love isn’t and will never be enough to substantiate for the connection with others. I have so much love for myself but it doesn’t change the occasional loneliness I feel stemming from lack of intimate relationships (platonic, romantic and familial.
Because I’m not in a safe environment surrounded by healthy people to experience these things, holding space with myself, continuously exercising self care and giving myself love is all I can do. But I do it through volunteering and community advocacy because it’s fulfilling and giving hope to others the same way I maintain hope for myself.

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Might not have anything do with this subject. But isolation can and will break your soul. I don't have friends, I Beg for friends but I'm never anyone's 2nd choice, let alone 3rd. Lost online friends because they're literally inactive now, they cut me off. And the ones that say, I'm here, I'll talk to you. Lost interest the next day. I could disappear from existence and no one would notice. All I have is myself. And I have tried this self love because no one will. Got the opposite effects now.
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Well finally someone has said that self love isn’t enough to be happy and there’s nothing wrong with wanting affection from others. Sure, what they think about us doesn’t always matter but if very few people want to be around us it’s very demoralizing. So yeah, we need external sources too to be happy, it doesn’t always come from within, after all we’re social creatures and we need others so it’s natural if we care and want approval from them
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In my personal opinion this is an integral part of life. Every lifestyle has its drawbacks. It depends on you whether you accept them as an integral part of your life or not. I was never been really loved or accpet by my parents, but belive in the healthy Self Love. Yes, sure from time to time you will feel lonely and alienated, but it is possible to accept this and live with this and lead a fulfilling life despite the inner emptiness.
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This is what I was telling a couple of people I discussed this with. We can do self love all we want, but it doesn't measure to being hugged. Carressed. As someone who has blossomed slowly with self love, I thrived when I met my best friend because she 100% provides things self love can't. I wish more people could understand this and not go- you need to love yourself more then anything, before you love anyone.
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I disagree. It is only when we truly love ourselves that we can love others in a healthy way. If you feel lonely and need someone to love you, then you do not sufficiently love yourself! Yes, giving and receiving love with others ( or even a pet) is wonderful and gives us reasons to grow. But we can grow and set goals for ourselves and feel fulfilled without anyone else loving us.
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God I needed this. I have been saying for YEARS that expecting self-love to be enough is like plugging a powerbar into itself and wondering why the lamp didn't turn on. Every time someone tells me that I only need myself or I just need to love myself more, my heart breaks. It just makes me think that I still haven't done enough to deserve love from anyone else.
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yes, we need to accept ourselves and try to improve it. but dont forget that not every bad side can be thrown away. sometimes there are some bad sides that becomes a part of your soul, no matter how much you try. but its better to apprreciate the bad sides too, instead of just kicking them away.
my experience as an undiagnosed borderline.

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In essence, self-love provides a strong foundation for personal growth and resilience, but it's just one piece of the puzzle. A fulfilling life involves nurturing relationships, facing challenges with courage, contributing to the greater good, embracing all emotions, and finding a balance between self-care and caring for others.
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