“Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” – Anonymous.

We are our own best teacher, healer, and friend. Our principal relationship is with ourselves. If there is a part of ourselves that we hate or judge, then we will see that being reflected back to us by others. The world has plenty of examples of the consequences of hate.
We can learn that it is possible to love all our weaknesses. We can objectively identify the worst parts of ourselves and work on managing them. Acting like this requires a great deal of self-awareness and courage in applying self-love, allowing us to learn how to accept, develop, and master ourselves simultaneously.
We do this so that we can become better forces of positive change, rather than waiting for others to solve our problems, heal us, or fix the issues we see plaguing our world. It is possible to understand that we perpetuate many issues due to our own lack of consciousness.
If the external problems around us seem insurmountable, it is all the more important to work on ourselves and love ourselves, so that we can apply this love and these transformational skills to our own lives, as well as to others whose lives we are destined to touch. Loving ourselves is no different from learning to love the diversity of life present around us.
If we can learn to love without a sense of separation, then we have learned unconditional love; the divine kind of love that creates heaven in its presence. This is what we need on earth. There is no higher aspiration.

Affirmation: I am aware that illness is resistance to my normal state of well-being.