Louise Hay之如何愛自己

How to Love Yourself Louise Hay offers these helpful suggestions. Try them! They really work.

1. Stop all criticism: Criticism never changes a thing. Refuse to criticize yourself. Accept yourself exactly as you are. Everybody changes. When you criticize yourself, your changes are negative. When you approve of yourself, your changes are positive.

停止自我批評：當停止批評人們、拿掉標準，也就能停止批評自己。當你認同自己，你就會有好的改變。

2. Don't scare yourself: Stop terrorizing yourself with your thoughts. It's a dreadful way to live. Find a mental image that gives you pleasure (mine is yellow roses), and immediately switch your scary thought to a pleasure thought.

不要用負面想法嚇唬自己：恐懼都是來自心中，你認為那是可怕的，你就會感到害怕。列出所有害怕事物的清單，給自己機會去突破與扭轉，記住，自己就是主宰。

3. Be gentle and kind and patient: Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself. Be patient with yourself as you learn the new ways of thinking. Treat yourself as you would someone you really loved.

溫柔、仁慈與耐心：學習一種新的思考方式，對自己溫柔、仁慈、耐心。善待自己，就像你關心所愛的人。

4. Be kind to your mind: Self-hatred is only hating your own thoughts. Don't hate yourself for having the thoughts. Gently change the thoughts.

對自己慈悲：不要因為覺得自己不好而討厭自己，溫和地改變對自己的批評。

5. Praise yourself: Criticism breaks the inner spirit. Praise builds it up. Praise yourself as much as you can. Tell yourself how well you are doing with every little thing.

讚美自己：批評傷害內在靈魂，讚美則能支持靈魂。

6. Support yourself: Find ways to support yourself. Reach out to friends, and allow them to help you. It is being strong to ask for help when you need it.

支持自己：適時向朋友請求協助，或接受他人關注，能使得自己更堅強茁壯。

7. Be loving to your negatives: Acknowledge that you created them to fulfill a need. Now you are finding new, positive ways to fulfill those needs. So. lovingly release the old negative patterns.

接受自己的缺點：去瞭解到，為了生存，我們建立缺點用來適應環境。而你能找到新的、正面的方法去面對環境，所以就溫柔地釋放這些過去的負面模式吧！

8. Take care of your body: Learn about nutrition. What kind of fuel does your body need to have optimum energy and vitality? Learn about exercise. What kind of exercise can you enjoy? Cherish and revere the temple you live in.

照顧身體健康：學習營養學。開始運動。珍惜也照顧這個你靈魂居住的肉體。

9. Mirror work: Look into your own eyes often. Express this growing sense of love you have for yourself. Forgive yourself looking into the mirror. Talk to your parents looking into the mirror. Forgive them, too. At least once a day, say: "I love you, I really love you!"

經常照鏡子：經常去看透你的眼睛。表達你對自己越來越多的愛。對著鏡子寬恕自己、想像跟父母說話也寬恕他們。每天至少一次對自己說「我愛你，真的好愛你」

10. LOVE YOURSELF - DO IT NOW! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or find the new relationship. Begin NOW - do the best you can.

現在起就全力以赴：不要等到日子好過、減肥成功或換新工作、擁有新的戀情才開始「生活」。現在就是你的人生，全力以赴活在當下。