Someone once told me: “you have to love yourself; take time for yourself.” Then I thought that I should spend a lot more time with myself, doing things for
myself… feeling happy with what I do.

For a while, my actions apparently led me to love myself, but my behavior was not very congruent with that objective. Part of it was because a lot of the time I was
doing things out of fear and not out of love. It is not the same that you do an action out of fear than you really do it out of love.

For example, many times we hear that we must follow diets, so that we do not
gain weight or lose weight, and that is where fear begins, because it is different if you
want to do this practice because you want to be healthy, than if you do it because
you are afraid of going up or down. of weight. When you want something, without

fear, you manage to do the action with awareness and love. By performing the action with love you find balance in the results you want to achieve.

Drive away fear

I’ll give you one more example. When we tune into a channel to listen to music, that channel does not know if the content is good or not, since its function is
simply to play.

This is how we are with our subconscious, what it will reproduce is what we are constantly telling it. But unfortunately, we continually order it through fear, we
order it to keep doing things we don’t like, and we’re left with that. And it is there where we must change, not to be like a music channel that only has the function of
playing, but to be a creator of consciousness, so that we can change from fear to love, to finally choose which track we want to play in our lives.

We live in a world where we are contaminated with many negative things, which seem to be common and we try to normalize them like suffering. Suffering
distances us from love and the processes of growth and change. We must begin to erase those scenes of life that we have recorded from our past and begin to live in
the present. This would be an act of love in the most unconditional way that we can manifest towards ourselves.

We can also be tied to someone who doesn’t let us move forward, but it’s time to let the other person grow too. We may not like this, but it is necessary because
respect is also an act of love.

Caring without intervening is an act of love. You have to give space to the
other person and allow them to grow too. It doesn’t mean that we will abandon them,
but that we will be present so that in the middle of the process they can ask us for
help, if they need it we will be there, attentive and available, but without invading or
stealing the learning process.

Loving yourself is a way to grow, change and understand that love is a little
different than the conditions we have been establishing throughout our lives, but in
that path of learning we are experiencing the real reason to love, respect and evolve.