the love you experience with others will be a direct reflection of the love you share with yourself. - Vex King

self-love consists of two essential elements that must be balanced if one wishes to live a harmonious life.

Ignoring negative emotions is like keeping poison
in your system. Learn to understand everything
that you feel. The aim isn’t to force positive
thoughts, but to transform the negative ones into
something healthier, so you can feel better.

In psychology, the concept of ‘social proof’ suggests that people like to follow the crowd. If everyone else is doing it, you assume it’s the right thing to do. Other people influence your actions more than you realize. For example, if you had to pick between two new bars and you could see that one was packed while the other isn’t, you’d assume that the empty one sucked and the popular one was much better! But just because everyone else is doing it does not mean it’s right. Slavery used to be legal, but now nearly everyone would agree that it’s inhumane, degrading and immoral.