Okay, this will be a somewhat New Age-y post, so here:
I was sitting, on my floor, meditating to some music to stimulate emotions and to have something to focus on. After a while, I started thinking, or I "got a vision", that I'm actually two entities; one rational mind that does all the reasoning, and one emotional. The emotional mind generates all the feelings, and by listening to music I get waves of emotions that wash over me. I view the emotional mind from the rational mind's perspective and I can accept the emotions that were generated. I had to spend some effort, or non-effort, to accept the feelings completely, but then I started to view this emotional mind almost as another person. A bit like a black box that made me feel things. I suddenly found that I started to like this black box, that I might actually be able to love this box. It was interesting!
Maybe that's what it means to love oneself. You can like your rational mind for what kind of person you are, all the good you've done, but to love yourself you have to have this non-logical emotion about your emotional mind. A strange loop.
Does it make any sense? I guess it's what the romantics have been saying all the time, in one way. It's not logical, it's acceptance.
I was sitting, on my floor, meditating to some music to stimulate emotions and to have something to focus on. After a while, I started thinking, or I "got a vision", that I'm actually two entities; one rational mind that does all the reasoning, and one emotional. The emotional mind generates all the feelings, and by listening to music I get waves of emotions that wash over me. I view the emotional mind from the rational mind's perspective and I can accept the emotions that were generated. I had to spend some effort, or non-effort, to accept the feelings completely, but then I started to view this emotional mind almost as another person. A bit like a black box that made me feel things. I suddenly found that I started to like this black box, that I might actually be able to love this box. It was interesting!
Maybe that's what it means to love oneself. You can like your rational mind for what kind of person you are, all the good you've done, but to love yourself you have to have this non-logical emotion about your emotional mind. A strange loop.
Does it make any sense? I guess it's what the romantics have been saying all the time, in one way. It's not logical, it's acceptance.