Self-love is the key to living a better, more meaningful life and having more fulfilling relationships. However, we frequently regard it as something we just must remember to do—just love yourself and everything will be OK. However, we rarely discuss how to love ourselves. What exactly does that imply?

Spirituality and self-love go hand in hand. When you pursue a spiritual life, you also cultivate self-love and vice versa. So, if you’ve exhausted all other options or aren’t connecting with what you’re being taught about self-love, the spiritual way of self-love may be the answer.

Spiritual self-love is a lovely way to infuse movement love into your life in simple ways, but it also ties you to yourself. And it is the most crucial connection in life because if you don’t have your connection, you will be dissatisfied when you can’t find it.

We all know that self-love is the finest love, but it often takes a little extra effort to fully experience it!

I was struggling with loving myself and I can understand very well that self-love can be difficult at times and the process of spiritual connection can be hard to follow but believe me, once you are over it, you will glow differently and love yourself deeply making sure you achieve all the things that you want in life.

Here are some of the best spiritual self-love practices that I have followed and have helped me love myself spiritually:

Make contact with your angels.

Personal development is not required for all steps to self-love. Speaking to your angels may sound woo, and trust me, I had to stop myself from making a face when I first heard someone say they spoke to their angels.

But what I discovered when I received clues from books, classes, and intuitive readings was that they were all pointing me in the direction of connecting more with my angels (aka my healing team).

While you don’t have to get down on your knees or place your hands in prayer posture to communicate with your angels, I do advocate keeping your hands in your heart space.

Finish by expressing thank you, that you appreciate it, and that you are glad for the assistance, and then soak up all of the self-love vibes that come with being vulnerable and asking for aid for yourself.

We all know that self-love is the finest love, but it often takes a little extra effort to fully experience it!

Regularly practice meditation.

You’ve probably heard this a million times before. Meditation, on the other hand, is a fantastic tool for connecting spiritually with your soul. Meditation may transport you to locations (and by places, I mean different dimensions or realms) that you wouldn’t normally visit.

Take a few moments to center yourself, locate your breath, and take 3 to 5 soft breaths in and out via your nose.

Check your posture after you’re comfortable, making sure you’re sitting tall with your shoulders dropped and your chin gently tucked in.

“May I be happy, may I be healthy, may I be well,” quietly say to yourself.

Allow the energy of serenity to flow through your heart by repeating this softly 10 times.

Next, visualize a loved one who is going through a difficult time and softly say, “May you be happy, may you be healthy, may you be well.”

Continue to send yourself and your loved ones the positive vibe and intention for happiness, health, and wellness.

Unrestricted movement

Movement is crucial and something I teach about frequently because it allows you to shift energy (aka bad feelings) out of your body. It can also aid in the release of any negative emotions you may be harboring.

However, I mention “unrestricted movement” since, while it’s fantastic to move, most movement is fairly constrained. Weight training, running, and even yoga are all exercises that require you to repeat the same movements again and over. They take on a macho tone.

Moving without constraint, whether through ecstatic dance or simply dancing, or through yoga where you flow through without guidance or thinking of what to do next, allows your body to move as it wishes.

This provides for a deeper spiritual connection as well as a deeper connection to your body, allowing you to move where your body needs to go rather than just doing bicep curls or doing positions that an instructor tells you to do.

What to remember?

Discipline and time are required to develop the capacities of attention and compassion. To learn something, you must have a strong desire for it and believe it is worthwhile of your time and effort. Although self-love is a vital objective, our society is full of distractions, and our culture’s emphasis on speed, performance, and productivity makes it difficult to build self-love. Meditation, yoga, and martial arts are all beneficial in developing self-awareness and attention focus.

Self-love, according to Fromm, requires having the faith and bravery to take risks and overcome life’s losses and sorrows. You can soothe yourself and confront challenges and failures without succumbing to worry or criticism if you have faith in yourself. You develop the ability to perceive yourself objectively and realize that, despite your current emotions, you will survive.

You will miss out on the opportunity to develop these internal processes if you are continually seeking approval and reassurance from others. Spending time alone with oneself is necessary to understand and listen to your feelings with delicacy and empathy, as knowledge is a prerequisite for love. In psychotherapy, you’ll also learn how to observe and control your emotions.

Self-love practices such as habit and routine are also important. While we must be careful not to act in such a way that we ignore our bodies’ signals, the gentle routines of taking care of ourselves every day ensure that when things go wrong due to stress or grief, our self-loving routines are there as a safety net we don’t have to think about.

Self-love is essential for our happiness as well as our relationship success. But it’s okay if we don’t have much of it today—it’s a practice that everyone can perform. All we have to do now is get started.