Kriyaban

Loving yourself
The importance of loving oneself and its relationship with enjoying the love that others offer you.

Loving yourself

Loving oneself is not an exercise in selfishness, but the foundation on which every healthy relationship rests. Here we explore the intimate connection between accepting yourself just as you are and being able to fully receive the love that others offer you. Without that inner foundation, even the most sincere affection from those around us reaches us dimmed by our own lack of self-worth.

How to love yourself
After discussing the importance of loving oneself, here we'll talk about how to do it.

How to love yourself

Once the importance of loving oneself is understood, the hardest part comes: how to actually do it in daily life. In this TPO we share small gestures, changes of perspective and concrete attitudes —from inner dialogue to the care of one's own body and one's own time— that gradually weave a kinder relationship with oneself.

Desire
How desire manifests in the initial stages of a love relationship and our efforts to try to perpetuate it.

Desire

Desire appears with special intensity in the initial stages of a love relationship, when everything is perceived as newness and promise. Here we reflect on our efforts to perpetuate that state —often mistaking it for love itself— and on how the struggle to hold on to what naturally changes ends up eroding the bond. Distinguishing desire from love is one of the subtlest spiritual tasks along the path.

Happiness
The importance of acquiring a neutral state of mind in your daily life and how sadhana can help us with this.

Happiness

Happiness, as the great masters understand it, is not sustained euphoria but a neutral, calm and stable state of mind, one that cannot be shaken by life's ups and downs. In this reflection we explore the importance of cultivating that inner balance day by day and how sadhana —constant spiritual practice— is the most powerful tool for reaching it.