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Daily Question, March 24

What parts of me might I love more fully?

  • Hot Sauce

    I can tenderly love the parts of me that are obsessive and feel the need to know everything right now. Instead of resisting the anxiety, I can tenderly hold it like a baby that needs cradling.

  • KC
    What a question! Such thoughtful sharings and reflections all. Thank you! I guess I can learn to love all the parts that are not yet conscious and that are as yet unknown and / or unresolved. There seem to be quite a few of them yet! Richard Schwartz has a book I have been meaning to pick up - No Bad Parts. His Internal Family Systems model seems very popular and effective for the many of us who grapple with unresolved traumas. Perhaps i will start with loving the part of me that r...

    What a question! Such thoughtful sharings and reflections all. Thank you!

    I guess I can learn to love all the parts that are not yet conscious and that are as yet unknown and / or unresolved. There seem to be quite a few of them yet!

    Richard Schwartz has a book I have been meaning to pick up – No Bad Parts. His Internal Family Systems model seems very popular and effective for the many of us who grapple with unresolved traumas. Perhaps i will start with loving the part of me that resists walking over to the bookstore and buying the darn book. Sometimes a good book is just the thing the doctor ordered…

    Happy Friday all!

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  • Malag

    The bits that are in pain. They’re doing their best to organise and move the body.

  • Ose
    One of my dear friends once said to me to love and appreciate myself more for the many gifts I have been given and share, as I tend to often look at the not yet realized aspects and fall sad then. To let the inner critic be silent in such situations and in the mean time follow the joy in life and all beauty it offers. So to simply love myself more. To follow this brings back strength, initiative and perspective, and simply the joy of being here and with all of you. Thank you dearly, my dear frie...

    One of my dear friends once said to me to love and appreciate myself more for the many gifts I have been given and share, as I tend to often look at the not yet realized aspects and fall sad then. To let the inner critic be silent in such situations and in the mean time follow the joy in life and all beauty it offers. So to simply love myself more. To follow this brings back strength, initiative and perspective, and simply the joy of being here and with all of you. Thank you dearly, my dear friend!

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  • jen white

    the parts that I might like about myself, but aren’t necessarily celebrated in society today. like I am pretty reserved and like my alone-time, but sometimes others make me feel bad for it

  • Cathie

    The part of me that just crunched my one car with my other car as I backed out of the driveway:(

  • Linda

    I love all of me, even the parts that need to be improved! I appreciate the journey I have been on and am doing my best to accept it all.

  • Butterfly

    Umm, the wrinkly bits, the saggy bits, the bits that hurt and the emotional bit that goes off track when I get overwrought.

  • Don Jones

    It is a seamless cosmos, so there is only one. Kind of makes the choice simple, hey?

  • Hermann-Josef

    I wanted to say something to all of you. Today there was that much work at the hospital and I was alone there. No pause but a few hours more to work. There were a few seconds in between when this site came to my mind and I thought of you all. It made me so happy and I felt so much love inside. I don‘t even know why. Thank you all. Thanks to brother David . 🙏🙂❤️

    • sparrow

      Thank you,
      dear Hermann-Josef,
      for making a difference in my day as well.
      Most of the time
      we never know about the people we touch
      with love . . .
      sparrow
      ♥

    • Michele

      Thank you. I enjoy reading your responses.

    • Butterfly

      Sending you love, dear Hermann-Josef 💜

    • Laura

      Thank you, Hermann-Josef, for all the joy and many insights you provide in your thoughtful responses.

  • Hermann-Josef

    I don‘t see myself as a bundle of parts, but there are aspects of the mind for which I could be more grateful. For instance I play baroquelute which is an instrument that only a few people like to hear. My nephew says it is horrible to listen to. So what. I like it. So I decide myself what I think is the right thing to do for me and what is not..

    • sparrow

      I can’t imagine,
      dear Hermann-Josef,
      how it is that your nephew thinks the sound is horrible…
      the baroquelute is wondrously melodious,
      and has such rich tones.
      Keep playing . . . 🙂

    • alara

      Thank you for sharing about the baroque lute. I listened on YouTube and had a beautiful surprise moment in my day. And, I, too, am feeling the pull of the group.

  • dragonfly

    My autoimmune disease with all the consequences I have a hard time to accept.

    • Butterfly

      I know what you mean, dragonfly. Keep loving yourself despite, or because of, your health issues 💜

  • alara

    My self-talk
    My magnifying-mind

  • Mica

    The parts that are in pain? 🙂

  • Charlie T

    I’m not sure which parts of me I need to love more, but I do know, that I should have a more balanced view of myself. I need to practice positive self thoughts and flex that atrophied muscle.

  • Grateful

    My quirkiness and being different

  • Holly in Ohio

    My imperfections, of which there are many.
    I have been trying to understand this balance… of how to accept oneself and yet still move forward. It seems contrary. Of how to recognize my imperfections but not be hindered in confidence by recognizing my flaws. To grow, we need both confidence and the ability to change our flawed patterns.
    I have no answers for this.
    Just thinking.

  • Chester

    I could probably do a bit better loving and appreciating my emotional self. Daily I use and appreciate my cognitive and physical self, but generally I either take for granted or intentionally push away my emotional self. Suspect by welcoming the full range of my emotional being, I will in fact love all things more fully.

  • EJP

    I will love more the parts of me that are fearful and lack confidence, strength and courage.

  • Howie Geib
    My perfectionism. I tend to see it as an attribute of my personality that is a liability. This is because it seems that I get pretty intense and critical when doing almost anything if I don’t do it perfectly. It sometimes rides like a task master, and the voice is a bit harsh and unforgiving. I could shift this I think. My perfectionism is based on my own high standards for myself. And in some ways my faith (small f) is critically connected to my trust in myself that I am perfectly capable of ...

    My perfectionism. I tend to see it as an attribute of my personality that is a liability. This is because it seems that I get pretty intense and critical when doing almost anything if I don’t do it perfectly. It sometimes rides like a task master, and the voice is a bit harsh and unforgiving. I could shift this I think. My perfectionism is based on my own high standards for myself. And in some ways my faith (small f) is critically connected to my trust in myself that I am perfectly capable of success. This can, perhaps, in a certain light (squinting slightly LOL) look like self love.

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    • Holly in Ohio
      It has always seemed to me that trying to be perfect is about wanting to be loved, particularly by our parents and harsh critics of our childhood. That voice in our head that urges us inside is the echo of their voice, and sadly, it also withholds love on the condition of being perfect. Unwinding that is difficult. Excellence brings us joy, and it is not really that which is the enemy, but rather the conditions we place on loving ourselves or feeling the love others have for us. There are no con...

      It has always seemed to me that trying to be perfect is about wanting to be loved, particularly by our parents and harsh critics of our childhood. That voice in our head that urges us inside is the echo of their voice, and sadly, it also withholds love on the condition of being perfect. Unwinding that is difficult. Excellence brings us joy, and it is not really that which is the enemy, but rather the conditions we place on loving ourselves or feeling the love others have for us. There are no conditions with love. That is the nature of love.

      Your thoughts are similar to my post above. I still have no answers, but you have helped me to see this is really about learning to love oneself unconditionally. What we do and how well we do it… should be irrelevant… but without the presence of imperfections, how could we really learn love?

      thank you, Howie. So often you carry me deeper. 🌷

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