In this episode we discuss our relationships with ourselves and why it's the most important relationship in your life. Topics discussed include:

• We talk about the burdens that growth and self-development can place upon us if we're not careful. If we don't do things the right way then pursuing our own betterment could actually leave us worse off.
• The way forward is self-love, self-acceptance, and forgiveness.
• We talk about how our inner dialogue and self-talk can turn quite cruel and demeaning when we fail to live up to our standards or we make a mistake. 
• We talk about the right way to approach growth and self-development. And that starts with understanding that you're OK right now the way you are. 
• And we talk about why self-love is so important. And that's because the opposite is self-rejection, which is a horrible way to live. With self-rejection you are not only rejecting yourself, but you're rejecting reality, rejecting the truth of your existence. The mind can't reconcile this and so you suffer endlessly. 
• And we talk about how self-love, self-acceptance, and forgiveness are choices that we get to make multiple times every day. We talk about how to override those automatic negative thoughts until they eventually integrate into your sub-concours and then the positive thoughts become automatic. 
• And in this week's Call-to-Action we work on overriding our negative self-talk with positive thoughts, and we forgive ourselves for all of our past transgressions against ourselves. 
• And I talk a bit about why this is the only real choice we have, even if it takes many people a lifetime to realize. 
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