{"id":700,"date":"2023-01-03T02:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2023-01-03T02:11:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T02:11:06","slug":"how-steep-is-your-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/03\/how-steep-is-your-love\/","title":{"rendered":"How Steep Is Your Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please pardon me if the caption of this blog post sounds comfortingly familiar to the Bee Gees<\/strong> classic single ” How Deep Is Your Love<\/strong><\/em> “. Inspired? Yes, absolutely.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n

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It shouldn’t be such a difficult thing to do, but, yet it is.<\/p>\n

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How to love yourself.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the best guides to how to be self-loving<\/strong><\/em> is to give ourselves the love<\/strong><\/em> we are often dreaming about receiving from others.<\/p>\n

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There will be times when you will be feeling lousy about your state of mind, your over-fifty body, your hair, you see yourself as too fat, too this or too that..it’s a rabbit hole that we all go into.<\/p>\n

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Yet you fantasise about finding someone who would give you the gift of being loved as you are. Contrarian, isn’t it?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is silly, isn’t it, that you would dream<\/em><\/strong> of someone else offering to you the same acceptance<\/strong><\/em> and affirmation<\/em><\/strong> that you are voluntarily withholding from yourself.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The word ‘ love<\/strong> <\/em>‘ is most often defined as a noun. But, it is worth altering the trajectory. We would all love better if the word love is used as a verb<\/span>, rather than a noun.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The ask here is: could we proactively offer a new ethic<\/em><\/strong> for a society bereft with lovelessness<\/em><\/strong>– not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, unity ?<\/p>\n

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People are divided by our society’s failure<\/em><\/strong> to provide a model<\/em><\/strong> for learning to love.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Should we be razing the cultural paradigm<\/em><\/strong> for a new path to love<\/strong><\/em> that is sacred, redemptive<\/strong><\/em>, and healing<\/strong><\/em> for individuals<\/strong><\/em> and society<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n

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Definitely so. Count me in!<\/p>\n

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As Katrina Mayer<\/strong> puts it, ” Loving yourself isn’t vanity, it is sanity<\/em><\/strong> “.<\/p>\n

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ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Please pardon me if the caption of this blog post sounds comfortingly familiar to the Bee Gees classic single ” How Deep Is Your Love “. Inspired? Yes, absolutely.   \u201cYou yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.\u201d   It shouldn’t be such a difficult thing to do, … Continue reading “How Steep Is Your Love?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1428,1429,634,41,42,1434,1432,1433,1103,1395,1431,1437,1435,1430,1438,1436],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acceptance","tag-affirmation","tag-bee-gees","tag-care","tag-compassion","tag-cultural-paradigm","tag-individuals","tag-katrina-mayer","tag-kindness","tag-love","tag-redemptive","tag-romance","tag-sanity","tag-society","tag-unity","tag-vanity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}