The Secret of Self Love

Welcome Back!

In our last post, The Voice told me a secret that comes straight from the Bible and that secret is, Love Thy Neighbor As Thy Self.

Now why do I say that passage is a secret?

Because it seems very few people know that it is indeed spiritual and Biblical to love yourself.

Based on this revelation I wrote an ebook entitled:

Say "I Do" To You! How to Find Love, Happiness and Success by Taking a Vow to Yourself and To Your Divinely-Designed Dreams is an ebook about love, specifically positive self love.

Say "I Do" To You! reveals that true happiness is connected to our willingness to commit ourselves to our quest of self discovery through divine guidance and a passionate pursuit of our dreams.

Currently at work on the 3rd Edition of Say "I Do" To You, I discovered an amazingly-low number of searches being done on the keywords "self love."

[You can try this yourself at: http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/rc/srch/ Choose the Keyword Selector Tool under Tools on the right side of the screen.] While the total number of searches on Self Love were 1,737, 1,234 of those searches related to a book about narcissism--which is the opposite of the type of healthy, positive message of self love that Say "I Do" To You! shares. Only 104 searches were done on "I love myself."

It is my goal to increase the number of searches done on Self Love--from a positive perspective--a million-fold.

If you would like to receive free access to prepublication mp3 files of the Say "I Do" To You! Success Interviews as well as a free chapter of the Say "I Do" To You! ebook, send an email to successeyc@yahoo.com and put Say I Do To You in the Re line.

Can Self Love Be Positive?

Why a blog on self love?

Ten years ago, I woke up and found that many of my friends had gotten married or were in serious relationships and I was not.

I'd been in a couple of their weddings and I was beginning to sing that "always a bridesmaid never a bride" song.

One day, after wondering "why not me?" a little voice in my head asked, "Esther, how much do you love yourself?"

Wow! What a question. Here I was spending days upon days wondering why someone else didn't love me and I'd never stopped to ask if I did indeed loved myself.

That's when the voice chimed in again, "How can you expect someone else to love you if you don't love yourself first?"

Love myself first?

Isn't that a bit narcissistic? Pathological -- just plain bad and wrong??!

I considered myself a very spiritual person so loving myself first sounded pretty selfish.

Then the voice showed me a passage in the Bible that really opened my eyes to the truth about self love.

I'll share that with you in my next post.