Intimacy & self love
Are they related?
How to cultivate intimacy in your life starts with cultivating intimacy with yourself.
How do you cultivate intimacy with yourself?
I would use the sentence that most of us now hear, use and are encouraged to practise..
Self Love.
Self love develops intimacy with ourselves and within ourselves. It transforms how we see ourselves.
Self love is not Self care although it is very valid that we consider self care as one of the manifestations of self love but self love is more than that.
Self love is the practise of paying attention to ourselves, our needs. The most important needs we have.
Not only what we think is our needs but what it is truly our needs, the needs that are very internal to us.
Needs that we donβt even know yet or we fail to notice them with the busy life that we have, needs that we can access through self enquiry, simple questions like:
What do I need in this moment? Have very big transformational power in our lives. More than what we think, if we start to practise asking them.
*I invite you to journal about this question in this moment.*
This self enquiry in itself is a very intimate process and it will open to us the door to our intimacy with ourselves.
Definitely developing the process of self enquiry is a healing tool that we always have and it is always available to us.
I would tell you that healing yourself would definitely give you this intimacy with yourself and self love is one of the doors you can open to your healing journey.
And it is true in many ways that loving yourself would get you the love you want in your life and it is the same in the case of intimacy.
Intimacy with yourself would get you the intimacy that you need.