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Dear God,
How Can I Finally Love Myself?
Copyright 2006 by Barbara Rose, Ph.D.
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1. Self Help/ Self Esteem
2. Self Help/ Personal Transformation
3. Spirituality/ Personal Transformation
4. Answers from God5. Spiritual Communication
6. Higher Self Communication
7. Higher Self Communication/Personal Transformation
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Also by Barbara Rose, Ph.D.
Dear God, The World is in Such a Mess.Why Arent You Doing Anything About It?
God in the Media
I Don't Need Your Permission to Live My Life
Transforming the Unknown: How to Transform Whats Holding YouBack in Life When You Dont Know What it Is
101 Ways your Higher Self Speaks to You
Wisdom on the Other Side of Knowledge
Im Not In This Life to Please You!
Dear God, Im a Teenager. Please Help!
Dear God, I Have Teenagers. Please Help!
Dear God, How Do I Get Over a Former Lover I Still Love?
If God Hears Me, I Want an Answer!
Know Yourself: A Womans Guide to Wholeness,
Radiance & Supreme Confidence
Stop Being the String Along:A Relationship Guide to Being THE ONE
If God Was Like Man: A Message from God to All of Humanity
Individual Power: Reclaiming Your Core,
Your Truth and Your Life
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Contents
Chapter 1 Personal Transformation......................................................1
Beginning the Process of Personal Transformation / 5
Step by Step / 7
Listening to Yourself / 8
Noticing Your Thoughts / 9
Exposing the Real Truth / 10 You and the Mirror / 11
Why It Works / 15
Comparisons / 16
Taking You to Your Core / 18
A Time to Remember / 20
The Naysayers / 21
The Naysayers Who Mind Your Business / 21Handling the Naysayers / 24
Self-Truth or Self-Lies / 26
Chapter 2 Your Life Purpose ..............................................................30
Truth and Lies / 33
Your Truth Is Your Life / 35Making the Decision / 37
Chapter 3 Your Love Life and Self-Love ....................................41
Chapter 4 The Questions to Ask for Self-Loveand Personal Transformation .......................................51
What Others Think / 58Trusting the Process / 60
Feelings While Receiving Answers / 61
Determination / 63
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When You Tell Yourself You Cant / 65
Projecting into the Future / 67Who Is Running Your Life? / 68
Chapter 5 Guidelines to Live By .......................................................51
Follow-Through for You / 85
About the Author ............................................................................................89
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you that you are not worthy in anyarea ofyour life, this breeds self-hate. I know thisfirsthand because I used to look at manyareas of my life and feel deep dissatisfac-tionareas such as relationships, finances,career, social status. And yet, it was not a
relationship or career or finances or statusthat caused me to feel self-love. I learnedhow to love myself from writing thousandsof letters to God, and I received answers.The result, self-love, led to this book.
There is no way for me to describe the
sadness, emotional pain, heartache, frustra-tion, and deep self-loathing that I used tofeel.
I used to think that outside circum-stances would make me feel better and hap-
pier. Perhaps you also think the same thing.Perhaps you believe that a love relation-
ship or a certain bank account balance willcause you to feel self-love.
There are many examples of people who do not love themselves despite theirrelationships and financial wealth. I amsure you can think of many people, perhapseven people you know, who truly do notfeel self-love.
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Its one thing to say, Love yourself. Itsquite another to know howto do this.
How can you feel self-love when youfeel deep self-hate? Perhaps you feel deepdepression. Perhaps you compare yourselfto other people, just as I used to. As a result
of those comparisons, we usually fall deep-er into the not-good-enough category. Atleast I used to. So let us now take the viewthat your life and your feelings about your-self are pretty much in the sewer.
Okay, this is admitting how you feel,honestly. Many years ago, when I toldsomeone that I felt as if I was sitting inmud, that person answered, Many peoplepay a lot of money to sit in mud.
I instantly realized that this was, in fact,true. Many people go to luxury spas to havemud-bath treatments for beautiful, glowingskin. Those treatments are expensive, andpeople do pay a lot of money to sit in mud.
What if I told you that all of the feel-
ings you currently have are a fantastic start-ing point in your life. Would you believeme? It is true. Admitting all of your truefeelings now, acknowledging those feelings
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that cause sadness, is a great first steptoward self-love.
But it goes deeper than that because ourfeelings are caused by our thoughts and
what our minds are focusing on.
So rather than drag you through hotcoals to feel even moreemotional pain, sad-ness, and despair, I am now going to teachyou a process that you can use free ofcharge for the rest of your life to transformhow you feel about yourself or transform
any area of your life.This process was given to me by God,
as I described at length in my bookIf GodHears Me, I Want an Answer!
Often, people are not exactly sure how
to apply this process. So this book is inyour hands to teach you how to apply thissimple, pure, and astounding process to thearea of self-love.
The lastthing I am going to do is giveyou a bunch of affirmations that you do
not believe, simply because you wontbelieve them. This is why using affirma-tions alone will not work. They are won-derful in additionto a pure transformation-
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Moreover, you have to desire to moveout of your comfort zone, which means nocomplaints and no self-insults from thismoment forward.
This might surprise you, but the only way you can transform the way you feel
about yourself is through your consciouschoice. If you would rather put yourselfdown and continue to complain about howmiserable you feel and how miserable yourlife is, this isyour choice.
So here, right now, its decision time.What do you really and truly prefer? To feelself-loathing, insecurity, and less than wor-thy? Or to feel genuine self-love, inner con-fidence, and equal to the rest of the humanrace no matter whoyou are looking at?
By forgoing all complaints and self-insults, you will show yourself how com-mitted you truly are deep inside your heartto choose to follow the guidance I am shar-ing with you step-by-step, guidance that
will teach you how to feel self-love.The process will work only when your
heart is committed to it. This book and theprocesses shared in it will work only when
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youwork them. You could have chosen toread any one of thousands of books, butyou picked up this one because deep inyour heart you would prefer to actually feelself-love.
To feel self-love does require your com-mitment from deep inside. This is a com-mitment toyourself, not to me or to anyoneelse butyou.
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Step-by-Step
One ground rule for feeling self-love isto stop all hateful comments that you make
about yourself and the conditions in yourlife. This is where it starts, and as you cannow see, no one other thanyoucan do this.This step will also show you how real self-love cannot come from anyone else. If you
want to feel it inside, and if you want those
feelings to be permanent, unconditional,then having personal ground rules isrequired. They are all pure and positive,and will only be helpful to you.
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Before I teach you this process or theprocess of receiving answers from God inwriting for your own personal transforma-tion, it is imperative that you know howimportant your conscious awareness is withrespect to what goes through your mind
about you. Following the steps in thischapter requires the cooperation of yourfree will and choice, your thoughts, focus,and gut instincts.
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Listening to Yourself
Now, as I said earlier, from thismoment forward you must cease all nega-tive self-comments to yourself or to anyoneelse about you.
So any of the complaining you havebeen doing or statements about how horri-ble you look or how bad your life is or howyou dont measure up must be stopped.
The only way to stop your complaintsis to notice when they come up in yourmind. Because you have probably beenmaking these negative statements habitual-
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ly for quite a long time, they will pop backup in your mind for a little while. But takeheart, because with this process, they arenotgoing to last. They wont even come upagain after a while. Wont that be nice foryou?
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Noticing Your Thoughts
When an old, negative, conditioned
thought comes into your mind, instead offocusing on it or dwelling in it or verbaliz-ing it, simplynoticeit without judgment.
For example, if you had a thought suchas Im such a failure or Ill never be any
good, simply become consciously aware ofthat thought. Notice that you had thatthought, and simply recognize it for what ittruly is: an old, negative, conditionedthoughtand thats all. It certainly is notthe truthabout you, that is for sure!
Now, immediately after you notice thenegative thought in your mind, tell yourselfsomething positive about yourself, such asthat you are a caring person. Or you are an
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intelligent person. Or you are a kind per-son. Any positive quality that you trulyknow you have deep inside will do perfect-ly fine.
The whole key here is to stop the old,negative cycle because it is vicious, mean,
harsh, degrading, and filled with lies aboutyou. Those thoughts came from the level ofego, not from the level of your deepestheart and soul. Once you consciouslyreplace the old, negative, habitual thoughts
with statements oftruthabout yourself, all
you will soon be thinking will be truth, andyou are going to begin to feel a lot betterabout yourself as a result.
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Exposing the Real Truth
Now Im going to share a process withyou that I shared in my first book,Individual Power: Reclaiming Your Core,
Your Truth, and Your Life, a process that hashelped me tremendously. I have shared thisparticular exercise with many people, and
what it did was speed up the transforma-
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tion from self-hate to self-truth withrespect to what they thought about them-selves. After all, if what you thought aboutyourself was entirely positive, you would,in fact, feel tremendous self-love.
So before I share with you how to bring
through truth from God to continue tohelp you with your process of personaltransformation, I guide you to do the fol-lowing exercise.
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You and the Mirror
The exercise I am about to share withyou was originally taught to me in 1994 bya wonderful man named Bill Burns. Hetold me to do this exercise twice a day fortwo years. I did that, and I noticed a dra-matic shift in the way I thought aboutmyself and a peeling away of many of the
lies I used to believe about myself.For example, from age six until well
into my thirties, I was called dumb, stupid,dead from the neck up, a nothing, and a
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nobody. I believed those lies, and this exer-cise truly helped me to transform them.
Although I felt quite uncomfortable
doing the mirror dialogue in the beginning,
as I am sure you will, too, it is worth doing
because it does make a difference. Andbesides that, it is free.
Two times each day, for the next eight-
een months to two years, look into your
eyes in any mirror and tell yourself three
good qualities derived from your observ-
able actions that day. Heres an example,
and although you may very well view it as
vulgar, I am giving this specific example to
you because you may have difficulty com-
ing up with three good qualities about
yourself taken from your observableactions. I could certainly share more elo-
quent examples, but real-life basics can
only help you. Everyone can relate to this.
Lets say it is your first time during any
day that you are doing this mirror dialogueand you are having difficulty finding a
shred of goodness within you. Here is a
raw, basic, yet truthful example.
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Perhaps you went to the bathroom andflushed the toilet. That was being hygienic,responsible, and clean. Those are the threegood qualities involved in the act of flush-ing.
Heres an example that is a bit nicer.
Perhaps you held a door open for someonewalking into a store. That action displaysthe three good qualities of kindness, cour-tesy, and compassion.
Now, lets say you paid a bill, any bill:
phone, electricity, food, or rent. Paying thebill displayed your qualities of beingresponsible, honest, and trustworthy.
Heres another one for you. Perhaps youwatered a plant inside or outside of whereyou live. Doing this displayed your innerqualities of caring, love, and generosity ofspirit. After all, you could let the plant justdie without water, so it does take yourinner qualities of caring, generosity of spir-it, and love to bring you to water the plant
to keep it alive.Now, when you look into your eyes in
front of any mirror, tell yourself what outeraction you did and three qualities that you
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dohave within you that were honestly dis-played by doing that observable action.
Heres another example of this process.Lets say you do not like the way a situationhappened, but you feel good about the wayyou handled it. This, too, can show you the
good qualities that are within you. Forinstance, suppose you were in a parking lotand were about to drive into a parking spot
when someone else cut you off andsnatched the spot from you. Perhaps you
thought to yourself, Anyone who acts thatway must not be too happy in his or herlife, for whatever reason, so Ill wish theperson well and simply find another park-ing spot. Those thoughts and actions dis-play compassion, understanding, and
diplomacy. After all, you could have gottenout of your car and started a fight; instead,you chose to handle the situation in a pos-itive way. Sharing this with yourself in themirror will help you greatly.
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Why It WorksHeres why this mirror dialogue works.
Two times a day you are telling yourselfcomplete truth that your ego can onlybelieve and not dispute in any way. What
Bill taught me and what I am now passingon to you is that if you tell yourself airy-fairy affirmations such as I love me, yourego is going to laugh in your face along
with thoughts like Ha ha, sure, yeah,right, who do you think youre kidding?
Thats what my ego used to do. But whenyou tell yourself that you held the dooropen for another person, and that showedhonest qualities of being kind, considerate,and compassionate, your ego cannot dis-pute what you say, because it is observable
fact.
Remember that the ego is very much atthe five-sensory personality level. It is theego that would say a statement such as Illbelieve it when I see it.
As you grow and evolve, as you beginyour process of personal transformation,your views of self are going to change dra-matically for the better. As you progress,
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you will come to say, I believe it becauseIsee it within my mind.
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ComparisonsWhile you are on a conscious path of
positive inner transformation, transform-
ing any views of self that are degrading and
abusive, after a while you will see that you
have come farand you will feel better.
I can share with you right now, just as I
did in my bookIndividual Power, that thevery first time I did this mirror dialogue I
actually said, F____ you, bitch. Youre
responsible, loving, and clean. Bye! I liter-ally cursed myself out. I definitely did not
feel comfortable talking to myself in the
mirror. I felt like a lunatic.
My ego was not comfortable looking
into my eyes or saying something kind, butI kept at it because Bill told me that this
process would ally me with myself. And it
did do just that.
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Bill was also the man who told me thatI would be bringing through informationfrom God to uplift the spiritual conscious-ness of humanity. If you think the mirrordialogue was hard to swallow, when he toldme thatone, I literally laughed in his face
because I thought you had to be a centralreligious figure like Mother Teresa or theDalai Lama to receive anycommunicationfrom God.
As it turned out, when I felt deeply sad,and when I truly did not understand whyso many painful things were happening tome in my life, I took out paper and a penand wrote Dear God. Then I asked what-ever questions were truly weighing on myheart.
I wanted to know howto feel self-love,self-value, confidence, and self-esteem.
Certainly nobody taught me how tofeel pure self-love except for God in theanswers I received.
I must share with you that it took me along timetwo solid yearsto believethat I was not insane receiving answersfrom God in my writings, because I really
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thought I was. I had never heard of anyonereceiving answers from God until someonesuggested that I buy the bookConversationswith God by Neale Donald Walsch, andthis was after I had brought throughIndividual Powerin 2001. Back then, I had
never heard of Neale. But when I read hisfirst book, I was thanking God because Ifinally found out about another humanbeing alive in the twenty-first century
whose writings were nearly identical to myown in tone, message, and feeling.
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Taking You to Your Core
The core of your goodness and true worth really exists in your heart. This isfact. I know all too well what it feels like tohave all kinds of fancy things on the out-side and feel deeply insecure and unworthyat the same time.
I also know what it feels like for life tobroadside me and strip away my entire real-ity. I know because I have personally expe-rienced losing it all and being on the brink
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of suicide. It was because of the countlessanswers, guidance, support, love, patience,cheerleading, and unshakable faith thatGod had in me and gave tome in writingafter writing that I was able to completelytransform my entire life from the inside
out.I learned how to transform the way I
viewed myself when everything had fallenapart. As God did with me in my writings,I am going to share with you throughoutthe rest of this book how you, too, can turn
around the deceitful, negative, even deso-late and sad feelings you have about your-self. Please note that this is nota substitutefor medical advice. It could be possible thatif you are deeply depressed, you may have agenuine chemical imbalance; so I urge you
to see a qualified medical doctor if you havebeen feeling chronic depression. You canalways receive answers from God. It isimportant to also take care of your physical
well-being. Thinking positively cannot, forexample, lower blood sugar in a person
who has diabetes and needs insulin. If youneed medicine or other treatment from aqualified medical doctor, it is importantthat you receive it. This book, like all of my
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spiritual work, is for your spiritual person-al transformation. I cannot guide you toheal blindness or any medical condition. IfI ever do reach the level of spiritual evolu-tion where I canplace my hands over some-one who is blind and suddenly they have
physical eyesight, I promise I will let every-one know about it.
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A Time to Remember
I want you to think back to a time inyour life when you felt good and pureinside. A time when you didnt have anynegative views of yourself. If you cannotremember such a time, please find a photo
of yourself as a baby. Now, this sweet, pre-cious, innocent, and loving being is you,the realyou.
Before circumstances got you down andbefore you were hurt by others and before
life got tough, your genuine goodness waswithin your consciousness, even if you werenot aware of it.
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The NaysayersPerhaps, as happened in my own life,
other people put you down and hurt yourfeelings while you were growing up.
Perhaps you were told lies about your-
self just as I was told lies about myself.Those people, the same ones you believedor still believe, truly do notlove themselves.
Anyone with genuine self-love would neverdegrade another human being. Since youknow what it feels like to be void of pure
self-love, it is time to simply view whoevertold you negative things about you withloving compassion. Why? Because they
were in pain deep within and truly did notknow how to feel worthy; if theydid, theynever would have put you down.
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The Naysayers Who MindYour Business
Perhaps there are people in your lifewho dont truly know how to be supportiveof you, accept you unconditionally, and
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show kindness to you. Perhaps, just as inmy life years ago, there are people in yourlife who seem very adept at telling you
what you should be doing. Do you knowwhat? They are entitled to their views andopinions, and those views and opinions
have absolutelynothingto do withyou.I have traveled this path in my own life.
My brother, whom I do love very much,called me a little left of center. Okay, hesentitled to his views; and I do not have totry to change them or prove anything tohim. Additionally, my mother, whom I alsolove very much, told me repeatedly to geta real job and work for a corporationafter I had already published my first twobooks and had already worked with manypeople to help them transform their lives.Now, this book is about you, not me; butthe only way I can help you is by sharingsome examples from my own life so youknow that I have also been there. Now I amgoing to share with you howto handle the
naysayers in your life, so you can move for-ward in the most positive way.
First, stop sharing what you do, yourideas, plans, creative ventures, worries,
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fears, and business with anyone who is notfully supportive of you. Simply be kind andcordial. When they ask you whats goingon, tell them about domestic chores andthat you just changed the linens on yourbed. When they ask how you are doing, say,
Good! No complaints.After a while, no matter whatwas hap-
pening in my life, when all I discussed wasdomestic chores and had no complaints,they had nothing to tell me in regard to mylife direction because I was no longer feed-
ing them personal information. The onlypeople I discuss my personal life with arepeople who love me unconditionally andare emotionally supportive of me.
If someone is putting you down, telling
you what to do, minding your business, orguiding you, if what they say goes againstwhat feels true to you inside, then simplythank them for their opinion and changethe topic of conversation.
You do not need anybodys approval
but your own. The naysayers in your lifemost likely are not living their passion, arenot filled with self-love, and are not truly
working in an area that they would do for
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free for the rest of their lives if they could.This is where your passion and life purposecome into play, and I will guide youthrough this as well because it has a lot todo with how you view yourself and howyou feel about yourself.
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Handling the Naysayers
If you do not yet have a loving support
system of positive people in your life,before you do attract those people, it isimperative that you stick to your truthregarding your personal life and stop dis-cussing it with anyone who is not a posi-tive, life-enhancing support system for you.
When people in your life suggest howyou should live your life, simply say,Thank you for your opinion. Period.
Please realize that many people maythink that what they are telling you is in
your best interest. Rather than telling youwhat to do, I am guiding you now to startlooking within your heart and asking your-self what truly matters to you, and what
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you naturally love to do. I will get into thisin more detail in the next chapter.
But here I will repeat what I said before:It is so important that you know you arenotin this life to win approval from anyoneon earth.
You are in this life to bring out yourrealqualities, rather than continuing to tellyourself that you are not yet whole andcomplete, because you really are.
You may not feel it yet, but you will.
Your life may look different from how youwould prefer it to look, but it willbe trans-formed from the inside out.
It allbegins with getting to know andrediscover the best qualities you have with-in you, along with all of your natural tal-
ents and gifts, so you can align them with apurpose that comes from your heart.
That purpose is called your life pur-pose, otherwise known as the reason youcame into this life to begin with, and it all
comes from the inside out, notthe outsidein.
Before I bring you to this place deepwithin your heart, it is important for you to
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remember that no matter what anybodysays to you or about you, the only thingthat matters is that you know the realyou,and that you live your truth every momentof your life.
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Self-Truth or Self-Lies
The complaints you have about your-self definitely do notreflect your pure inner
worth, because this worth resides in yourheart.
The circumstances in your life, my life,everybodys life on earth are all transientcircumstances. This means that they are
temporary; not one of them lasts forever.Perhaps just as in my life years ago, the cir-cumstances in your life may be everythingother than what you truly desire.
It is important to know that your cir-cumstances neverreflect your worth. They
are temporary circumstances, period. Your worth cannot be purchased or sold. Yourworth has nothing to do with your appear-ance. Your worth has nothing to do with
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what you own. Nor does it hinge on a titleor a position in society.
No matter what phase of life you arecurrently experiencing, please know andalways remember that your worth is thegoodness you were born with in your heart,
and from this moment forward, anythingthat you have been viewing as the basisforyour worth can instead be viewed as anexperience you would like to have.
Moreover, the naysayers who may be in
your life are actually wonderful catalysts toget you to be true to you. Not to them, toyou.
Additionally, your truth does not haveto be publicly announced. It can remaininside of your heart while you simultane-ously move your views of yourself in a moretruthful direction consciously, and moveyour entire life in the direction that reflectsthe truth you prefer in your deepest heart.
It is time that what you feel, think, say,
and do all match, in a positive, pure, andlife-enhancing manner. Your age has noth-ing to do with your worth either. It is justbased on a calendar, and I am certain that
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from this moment forward you have aclean slate in life. You can choose how you view yourself. You can choose what youshare and with whom. You can choose whoyou listen to and who you simply thank fortheir opinion no matter what they say.
Even if a person gives you a negative opin-ion, thank him or her for the opinion andthen remove yourself from this person.
Anyone who is going to put you downtruly does notbelong in your daily life. Thisapplies to adults, not children. Simply stop
picking up the phone when the caller issomeone who gives you drama, criticism,or harsh words.
Stop associating with people or so-called friends who may be hurtful to youon a personal level. Begin from this
moment forward to live out your truth onevery level.
This truth is that you choose who totalk to and sleep with; you choose the workyou do; you choose what you say, what you
think, and how you express yourself in yourlife purpose.
None of the above can be chosen byanyone butyou.
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Now you have a pretty good idea ofwho is reallyin charge of your life. It is onlyyou.
See the next page if you truly wish to re-create your life and express the reason youcame into this life. It is time to know your
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What are your greatest quali-
ties? What comes very natu-rally to you? What do youlove doing? What inspires
you? Who are some of your role models?
I understand that if your life looks and
feels like everything other than what youreally prefer, it may be difficult for you tocome up with the answers to those ques-tions. Thats why I am now going to takeyou on a reverse-process journey thatshould be quite easy for you.
What dont you like about yourself? What do you despise doing every day?Who in your life is hurtful to you? Whatdo you dread most when you think about
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where your life is headed? What can youreally not stand about yourself? Which peo-ple do you view negatively with respect to
what they are doing with their lives?
You may wonder what those questionshave to do with self-love, so Ill tell you.
Was it easy for you to know the answers tothe above questions regarding everythingyou dont like? If it was, good. Please takeout a sheet of paper and write down theanswers to all of the above questions abouteverything you do not like about yourself,your life, your work, and the people you
view negatively.
I can only guide you. I cannot do thisprocess for you. But I did do it in my ownlife, so I know from personal experience
that it works.
Okay, did you write down the answersabout everything that displeases you? Pleasedo that now if you can. If you cannot, atleast think about those answers.
Your life and your view of self are deter-mined by the decisions you make withinyour mind. Now that you know abouteverything you cant stand, how would you
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like it if I could wave a magic wand andmake allof those areas turn around? Yes, Iknow you would like that. But I dont havea magic wand. The magic wand is yourown free will and choice, and only you candecide to wave it.
If you really and truly desire to finallylove yourself, as soon as you are quite clearabout what you dislike, you must put thosethings out of your life. It is time for you todecide that the people who hurt you areout of your life, permanently. Those thingsyou hate doing? Guess what: as of rightnow its quitting timeyou get to quitdoing those things, forever. The negativethings you think about yourself are whatyou were led to believe, and you have the
mirror process to transform those beliefs,permanently.
Remember: to love yourself, you cannotsay another degrading thing to or aboutyourself. You will have to stop giving atten-tion to all of those negative views so that
they will stop holding power over you as ifthey were truth.
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Truth and LiesNow that we brought up what you hate
about yourself, and all of those negativeviews you have about yourself, I am goingto share a simple analogy to help you to rid
yourself of them, because you were notbornwith them, anymore than I was borndumb, stupid, dead from the neck up, anothing, and a nobody.
You see, I had to work through all ofthose negative views, so I have created agreat shortcut and a couple of examplesthat can really help you.
These analogies will help you with thefalse views you have about yourself, alsoknown as lies.
Lets say a blindfold was sewn on to myskin, completely covering my eyesight, andI came over to your house to say hello.Imagine that you were painting a picture ofthe sky and flowers, and were using colors
like blue, yellow, pink, purple, white,green, orange, and turquoise.
What do you think your reaction would be if I told you that the brown,
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black, and grey colors on that painting real-ly did not look good? What would youthink? You would most likely think some-thing like this: Okay, boy, I hope she getsbetter, because she obviously isnt seeingtoo clearly, not to mention not seeing at
all. Would you take those comments per-
sonally? Would you argue with me to try toprove I was wrong? Would you stop paint-ing? Would you believe me? Of course not!This same reaction also applies to every sin-gle false belief you have adopted aboutyourself.
If your view of yourself is distorted, it islike going to a carnival and looking at your-self in a funny mirror that shows you a
reflection of a person eighty feet high andthree hundred feet wide. It is not truth.
If you have been looking at yourself andthe world as a mean, cold, dark, and scaryplace, naturally you are going to feel scared.
What if I told you that up until nowthe way in which you have been viewingyourself and your life had a negative filteron it, preventing you from seeing all of the
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good? This is actually the case, because nomatter what the past has been like, it isbehind you. It is no longer your currentreality. There may be circumstances thatyou would like to see transformed, and youmost definitely can transform them!
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To transform how you feel about your-self, youre going to have to get really hon-est with yourself. Youre going to have toforce yourself to discover, live, and expressonly your truth, so long as it never bringsany harm to yourself or anyone else.
You know what you do not like, andyou can get to know what you prefer bynoticing how you feel inside.
I know the following is a bit disgusting,but I have to be extremely blunt and go
over the top on this one so you can reallyunderstand howto know your truth.
Think of your favorite dessert. What isone of your favorite desserts? One of mine
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is chocolate. If I invited you to come to myhouse for dinner and I offered you deadbugs for dessert, how would you feel? Thatis how you know what does notfeel true foryou or right for you or good for you or
what you truly prefer. I am positive that
just the thought disgusts you, as it does me.Quite frankly, Id rather starve. I bet youfeel the same way, yes? Good.
When you feel that way inside, you cantranslate that feeling into a decision called
no, because it is based on what does not feeltruefor you.
Apply that feeling to the list of every-thing you do not like. Those are the partsof your former life that you now chooseto
walk away from, leaving them in your past.
Excuses are just that, excuses. I knowmany, many people who walked away from
what was no longer true for them, and theybegan to thriveas a result.
The people who choseto remain in their
comfort zones despite the fact that it wasntwhat they really preferred, remained stuck.And nothing changed.
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This is the difference. Loving yourselfcomes with the decision to finally listentoyourself. Listen to what your feelings aretelling you. Listen to what you prefer.
Whose life is this? Theirs, whoever theyare, or yours? It is only youwho can make
these decisions. If you feel afraid, thenremind yourself that this fear is a tempo-rary feeling that will definitely pass onceyou move forward in the direction you pre-fer based on your truth and your choice tocarry out that truth.
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Making the Decision
Can you swim forward and backwardsimultaneously? Can you travel north andsouth at the same time? Of course not.Similarly, you cannot simultaneously liveaccording to your truth and according tothe lies or fears that have kept you down.
Everyonefeels afraid about moving intonew, unfamiliar territory even when it isentirely life enhancing. I certainly did. Youare not doing yourself any favor when you
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continue to hold yourself back from mov-ing in the direction you prefer.
If people tell you that you cant, justremember that people told me the samething. But I did have a grandma namedRose who used to tell me that she believed
in me. That meant the world to me, and itstill does. I may not know you personally,but I do believe in you because I know thatall peoplewho put their hearts and mindsinto action based on their truth, who focussteadily and consistently in the moment,and who keep moving forward dolive a lifefilled with self-love. This is how I was ableto turn my outer life around. It came froman inner decision, one moment at a time,based on what felt true and right for me inthat moment, combined with all of theguidance I received from God whenever Ifelt afraid or unsure about what to do.
I will be sharing this process of receiv-ing answers from God with you later in thisbook. But before you can be true to your-
self and follow the process, you have toknow what your truth really is concerningevery nook and cranny of your life. Thenyou can transform anything that feels off or
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not good to you and replace it with whatyou prefer.
Many of the problems people experi-ence stem from love relationships. I havecertainly been through the mill in this areaof my life, as I shared in my book Stop
Being the String Along: A Relationship Guideto Being THE ONE.
Transforming my internal emotionalpain was the result of steadfast letter writ-ing to God, asking for answers. That book
I just mentioned was all written by Godthrough me while I was going through somuch emotional pain. I was determined toturn it around so I could feel joy. This is allI wish for you. Lets take a look at this areaof relationships, and then I am going to
share many questions and suggestionsregarding receiving answers from God soyou can continue your process for the restof your life no matter what comes up.
You are much more than your relation-ship. It just may be that if you do not feel
pure self-love, the state of your relationshipwith yourself is reflected in your relation-ship with someone who is or was in yourlife.
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Relationships are one of our greatestteachers. Now its time to learn some moreabout them so you can move forward.
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Chapter 3
Iask you now to look at the current
state of your love life, your romanticlove life, and your views and feelingsabout the relationship you are current-
ly in orif you currently do not have anintimate romantic partnerhow you viewrelationships in general.
I must make one exception for thischapter: if your partner recently died andyou are grieving the loss of this personsphysical presence, please know that yourgriefwilllessen over time. Meanwhile, you
can still glean some insight pertaining toself-love and how you view yourself.
Whether or not you are in a relation-ship now, how do you view romantic rela-
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tionships? If you are in one now, how doyou feel in this relationship?
Your feelings aboutthis relationship andyour feelings while inthis relationship are adirect reflection of your feelings about
yourself.
If you are tolerating abuse, it is because
you believe that no one else could love you.
If you are being verbally, mentally, emo-
tionally, or physically abused, the only way
you will ever love yourself is to get outofthis relationship. I hope with all of my
heart that todayright nowwill be the
time you decide to get out, because this
willbe the beginning of your life filled withself-love and joy.
If you feel afraid of being alone and
without a partner, this is because no one
has yet taught you how to love yourself, to
honor your feelings, and to follow what
those feelings are telling you, which is why
you may feel insecure. You were most like-ly taught to follow what others told you in
order to gain acceptance and love by every-
one other than your ownself.
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You can be in a relationship and feelcompletely isolated and alone if this rela-tionship is trulynot in your best interest.Finding the courage to remove yourselffrom a painful relationship comes withyour commitment to yourself and with
understanding how much you matter; thecourage comes with consciously choosingto lift yourself out of misery.
There is no such thing as a perfect rela-tionship, just as there is no such thing as aperfect person. It is the degreeof joy or sad-
ness you feel that clearly indicates how youfeel about yourself. It is not about the otherperson or what they are doing. It is abouthow you feel in this relationship. As I saidearlier, getting to the point where you final-ly love yourself requires complete self-hon-
esty. If you are giving yourself a lot ofexcuses to remain in a relationship in whichyou feel miserable, then you are also givingyourself a lot of excuses as to why you donot honor your feelings and live your truth.In short, you are deceiving yourself. I used
to deceive myself, too. I used to tolerate alot because I had not yet learned how tolove myself. Getting honest with yourself isyour first step. Admitting your truth to
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yourself is the only way you will finallyopen the door to self-love. Of course I willshare the rest of this process with you; butthere are a lot of bases to cover becausethere are many different areas of life thatreflect how you feel about yourself; I must
bring them into your conscious awarenessto help you awaken to the real truthinsideof you, which is the foundation of self-love.
Perhaps you are not in a relationship,and perhaps you are avoiding one inten-
tionally. I also experienced this phase. I wasavoiding a new relationship because I had-nt yet gained enough trust in myself toknow that I would be safe by following mytruth at all times. Avoidance of relation-ships is advisable only when you truly need
time away from relationships to get toknow yourself, who you are, and what youprefer; when you need time to develop con-fidence in following your truth.
Knowing your preferences regarding
your romantic love life also means that ifyour romantic love life does not matchyour preferences and if it cannot be workedout to match your truth, then you will sur-
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vive and be perfectly fine as you graciouslyexit the relationship.
Perhaps you are not ready to settledown with one person. Does this meanthat you need to deprive yourself of experi-encing joy and closeness, being a true
friend, and sharing genuine companion-ship with someone? Not every relationshiprequires that you stay in it until your lastbreath in this lifetime.
This is why people get to know each
other. Getting to know someone takes timeand many experiences. As you begin to fol-low what your heart and guts are tellingyou rather than any fears or insecuritiesthat pop up in your mind, you will come toknow what real self-love feels like.
It feels like a ride down a river, a ride in which you are alert, awake, extremelyaware, and going with the flow at eachturn. If you discover that you truly do notdesire to share more time with a person you
have been with, then simply move on withyour life.
Alternatively, if someone you lovedsimply stopped seeing you, it is so impor-
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tant for you to know that this has absolute-lynothingto do with your worth or value asa human being. What ifyoutruly did notdesire to continue to be with someone?Does this mean that the person is not a
valuable and worthy human being? No, all
it means is that you have different prefer-ences.
So if you feel sad over a recent breakup,which is so common, just know that as youbegin to discover and create joy in your lifeby moving your life in a pure, positive, and
enjoyable direction, your happiness willquickly return.
You cannot hinge your happiness onanother human being, ever. When youbegin to see that you can create joy in your
life by living according to your preferences,you will feel a lot more secure inside.
Sometimes people with whom we begina romantic relationship exit our lives. Anyself-denigration that is based on whether ornot a person is in your life must be trans-
formed by viewing that person with thesame compassion and understanding as if
you were the one to exit. I believe youwould wish the person well and hope that
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he or she would be perfectly fine withoutyou.
Now, suppose you meet a new and wonderful person whom you view as apotential partner. As time passes, you get tosee what that person is all about. During
this time it is crucial that you show the realyou, and neverput on an act for any reason.
As you get to know someone new, noticehow you feel when you are with him or her.
Do you feel joy? Do you love his or her
company? Do you feel chemistry? Can youtalk about anything? Do you feel love?Okay, now suppose you feel this way andthe relationship progresses to a point wheresuddenly you no longer like what you areseeing or how you are being treated. What
then? Heres a purely hypothetical example.Lets say I met Mr. Incredible, and we gotto know each other, and got very close.Then all of a sudden I started hearingthings such as Honey, its dinner time. I
would notwant to go any further with this
person unless he understood and agreedthat I, personally, do not have a dinnertime because I eat only when I want to. Ifhe thinks Im going to conform to some
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longer in your life, perhaps he or she justpreferred to live a different lifestyle. Whensomeone leaves a relationship with you, itneither validates nor invalidates your
worth.
Your love life is based on living your
truth at all times without control, manipu-lation, games, abuse, or force of any kind.This includes twisting yourself into allshapes and forms just to please someoneelse.
Perhaps you are avoiding love and inti-macy altogether. If thats the case, thenwhat you are truly avoiding is both the fearyou have of being controlled and emotion-ally hurt, and the false negative views ofyourself that you still carry in your subcon-
scious mind.Love does not hurt; how we view our-
selves is what hurts. If we view ourselves asout of control or too vulnerable andunsafe, then avoidance of intimacy is thesymptom. The cause is deeply rooted in false
negative views of self. Remember I said ear-lier that those false negative views areknown as lies?Once you begin to transformhow you view yourself, you will completely
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transform both how you feel about yourselfand how you live your life on all levels andin all areas.
The process I share with you in the nextchapter will bring you truth at a core level,truth that leads to personal transformation,
truth that you can receive free of charge,24/7, for the rest of your life, or until yournegative views of self are completely trans-formed.
I will share questions that you can askGod, as you personally understand Him orHer to be, so that you receive the answersthat will transform how you view yourself.
It was through such questions andanswers that I was able to completely trans-form my own self-loathing views into gen-
uine self-love. This is all I wish for you, andit is my deepest hope that this process is aspure and permanent for you as it has beenand still is for me.
On the next page you can begin to learnthe process of receiving answers from Godin your writings so that you canfinallyloveyourself.
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Many people do not realize that
just as self-love exists within,so too do the answers as tohow to view yourself with
respect to self-love and personal transfor-mation. But those answers, rather thancoming solely from the lower self, or ego
level, will come to you from your HigherSelf, who exists within you and in the high-est realm of the universe.
When I did not know how to transformmy view of self so that I could feel self-love,
I wrote letters to God asking for answersand guidance.
The questions below will help yougreatly when you are asking for answers,
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and the process of receiving those answersis actually quite simple.
First, you have to have a deep, heartfeltdesire for answers that will help you in yourlife now.
Second, you can write questions thatcome from your heart. It is important toask for divine protection, such as asking tohave divine white light surround you toprotect you. Additionally, if you believe inguardian angels, you can ask them to sur-
round you and protect you as well. After you have written the question
from your deepest heart with a pure desirefor an answer, or even for many answers,take at least seven deep breaths so the airgoes deep into your belly, and exhale
through your mouth. While you arebreathing, focus your mind on God, how-ever you personally understand Him orHer to be.
While you breathe, you will become
more relaxed. If you feel you need to takemore deep breaths, this is perfectly fine.
You are simply using your sixth sense, which is always connected to God, your
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Higher Self, who is the source of your high-est and most pure guidance. This is thesource of your gut instincts. The sourcethat brings you clarity when you wake upin the morning after going to sleep feelingconfusion.
Please remember that receiving answersfrom God is not in any way a special abili-tyit is your birthright to use all of yoursix senses. This is not a process that you canget wrong; it is a process that has alwaysbeen available to all of humanity. The onlydifference between now and yesterday isthat now you know that you can useHigher Self communication at any timeand for any reason as long as the desire foranswers comes from your heart and yourmotive is pure: to help you with self-loveand personal transformation.
If others are interested in this process,you can always share it with them fromyour heart in your own words. But pleaseshare it only when people are open to it and
ask you about it because people have totruly desire to use all six of their senses. Ifpeople are not open to this, then pleasesimply let them be, to grow and evolve at
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their own rate and in their own way, just asyou are.
Here are simple questions you can askGod in your writings. Remember that theseare only suggestions to help you with thisprocess. You can alwaysask anything from
your heart.
Dear God, What has been uncon-sciously blocking me from feeling pure self-love until now?
Dear God, Is there a certain thought
habit that I can change so that I can trans-form how I view myself?
Dear God, Can you please help melearn how to stop comparing myself to oth-ers and what the best thing would be for
me to do instead?Dear God, I feel that I do not matter at
all. My life is a complete failure, and I feellike a complete failure. Can you please helpme and teach me how to turn this around?
Dear God, I was told many thingsabout myself that have hurt me deeply. Ifeel that I dont even know who I am or
why I am in this life. Can you please tell me
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the higher perspective and guide me totransform this feeling?
Dear God, After I have done a lot ofwork on myself, why do I still feel a lack ofpure self-acceptance?
Dear God, So many people seem tohave it all together. What does it take to beand feel that way? Please guide me.
Dear God, I feel afraid to do what Ireally want to do with my life because of
what other people may say or how they will
view me. Please tell me how to transformthis and change it permanently.
Dear God, I have made many mistakesin my life that I regret, and I dont knowhow to forgive myself. Can you please tellme how and explain what the difference is
between self-forgiveness and self-excuses?
Dear God, How can I love myself whenI look the way I do? I cant stand to evenlook in the mirror. Can you please tell mehow to transform this? Can it really be
transformed?Dear God, My relationships have been
one mistake after another, and I now real-ize that I have attracted those people into
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Dear God, How can I know for sure thatit is really you answering me and not what Imight have learned along the way? Is thereany way you can tell me for sure so I knowthe answers are actually coming from you?
Dear God, Sometimes I feel good, and
then I get sad again and feel that no onecan relate to me. Please help me throughthis so I can feel joy even if other peoplecannot relate to me.
Dear God, My life is changing quickly,and I am not sure what is best for me to donow. Can you please give me the best nextsteps for me to take so I have pure and solidguidance?
Dear God, Why in this world wouldyouactually want to answer me?
Dear God, Life keeps getting harder. Ithought it would get easier. Can youpleasehelp me to create positive change so I cancreate more ease and joy in my life?
The above questions can help any per-
son who lives life on earth receive answersfrom God for authentic and pure self-loveand personal transformation.
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What Others ThinkI know what it feels like to worry about
what other people will think of me. I usedto feel tremendous fear and anxiety duringthat phase of my life when I was facing a
choice of either moving forward into thefield of broadcast journalism or into thefield I am in now and will be in for as longas I live.
Fear of what others will think has pre- vented many people I have spoken with
from following their own truth. Instead,they held themselves back and remainedunfulfilled inside.
Nobody can force you to make the pos-itive changes you would like to make in
your life. Nobody can make your choicesfor you. Did you ever stop to considerwhether all of the people whose opinionsyou may be concerned about ever come toyou asking for guidance about their lives?
Think about it for a moment. Who are
they to begin with? Family, friends,neighbors, people who live in your part ofthe world? And what do they think?
What if they told you they think the direc-
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tion you are contemplating is fantastic and wonderful? What then? Would you thenhave a new worry about success or failure?
Would you worry about whether you weregood enough in your field of service?
You see, all of the abovewhat people
think, what you think, success, failure,being good enoughit allcomes from thepassion you feel about what you are doing,being, creating, and expressing from yourheart. That is all that matters.
Suppose you love to teach children.Does this mean that you need to receive theaward for most popular teacher every yearor a Ph.D. in education to make a true andlasting difference for the children? Dontpeople and childrenfeelyour care? Yes, they
do. Dont you feel it when someone trulycares about you? Yes, you do.
Do they need a certain title or a certainappearance to touch your heart and bright-en your day? No, they dont. What mattersmost is purity of motive. Moreover, that is
what you really feel coming from otherpeople, their motives.
If your motive is pure and from yourheart, there is no such thing as failure.
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Whether a business succeeds or a financialventure profits has nothing to do with thegoodness in your heart or with your true
worth.
No one gave you this goodness and noone can ever take it away.
The feelings you have about yourselfare completely based on how you viewyourself. To transform your self-view tomatch your ideal, you can come to trustand rely on the process of receiving thehigher perspective from God through your
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Trusting the Process
It does take time and many small expe-riences to build that trust. As you experi-ence receiving new realizations, support,and the pure views you can have aboutyourself along with how to integrate these
pure views, you will come to find that thisprocess is so pure, and so priceless.
It is important for you to realize thatyour current level of consciousness, those
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you will feel love. You will also feel incred-ible patience, understanding and support. You will never feel anything negative, andyou will neverreceive any sort of judgmentfrom God. You will only receive divine,pure, and perfect truth.
If you find that you are writing but feelthat you are notreceiving answers that trulyhelp you, chances are great that you areafraid you wont be able to receive them.
You may have views that complicate the
process, and you may be asking about thefuture.
Please realize that this process needs tobe done with respect to how you feel now,in the moment, rather than about thefuture.
If your head is telling you that you wont receive answers, then do a writingspecifically addressing this doubt. Askabout receiving them if you feel unsure. Ifyou feel blocked, you can always log on to
Higher Self Communication YahooGroups and post your questions about theprocess. You will always receive loving sup-port and answers from the group members.
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Determination
The level of personal transformationyou will receive through your writings willdepend on how determined you are to shedall of your negative feelings about yourself.
Your determination must come from your
heart because you desire to shed every lastlie you have ever bought into about your-self.
Your determination extends far beyondsimply reading this book. It must continue
after you have read this book and until allof the negative self-views you have are com-pletely transformed into self-love and self-truth.
The whole reason why this book waswritten for you is so that you have a real
process to follow for as long as you need to.
I have found that sometimes when Ireceived answers, I wanted more. In fact,many times I wanted more.
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If you ever feel this way, simply do awriting and askfor much more detail. Forexample, you might write: Dear God,please tell me everything I need to know tocome into pure self-love and self-accept-ance. Please tell me anything I might not
be asking about, anything that I need toknow that I may not be aware of.
I have written that question more timesthan I can count. What was so great wasthat I would receive guidance about otherareas of my life that were reflecting negative
views I was still holding on to without real-izing it. There were still areas of my life thatmatched the low self-worth I used to feel.
This does notpertain to other people;this pertains to how you feel aboutyourself
when you are with other people.
A great guideline that I have adoptedand live by is that if I feel negative energyfrom certain people, I simply wish them
well, view them in my mind with loving
compassion, and go on my own merrywayawayfrom them.
I refuse to engage in ego battles, drama,fights, or anything negative. I learned
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through my writings that it is my personalresponsibility to simply walk away as soonas I feel negativity from a person, place, orcircumstance. You have the same responsi-bility.
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When You Tell YourselfYou Cant
There is a saying that I love: Whetheryou believe you can or you believe youcant, youre right!
You may or may not believe that youcan remove yourself from a negative personor situation in your life. Because this issuch an important aspect of many peopleslife experiences, especially concerning jobsand relationships, I would like to discuss it
with respect to moving away from peopleand situations when you feel anything neg-
ative.If you are miserable in a relationship or
a job, and you are consciously telling your-self that you cant leave because of this or
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that excuse, heres something to consider.What if that person left you? What if you
were excused (readfired or laid off ) fromthat job? What then? You would be free of
it, and you would then hopefully do many
writings to come into your highest and
deepest truth about your work life or rela-tionship so that you can create new situa-
tions that match your deepest and purest
personal preferences.
You have something called choice.
When you tell yourself that you cant, whatyou are doing is putting yourself into men-
tal, emotional, and perhaps even physical
bondage.
When you ask God, through your writ-
ing, for guidance about what to do next,and ask for analogies and highly detailed
guidance to transform cant to can
you willovercome your fears, because thisis allthe words I cant represent: fears.
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Projecting into the FutureWhenever I felt afraid of moving in a
positive, life-enhancing direction, mythoughts were mainly focused on thefuture. Moreover, I know of many people
who have based their beliefs about whatthey can and cannot do on their prior expe-riences that did not turn out as they wouldhave liked.
When you make decisions based on
either the past or the future, I can guaran-tee that they come from the five-sensoryego or personality level. Those decisions donot come from that higher, all-knowingpart of you, God, your Higher Self.
If you write about the fears and
thoughts, and ask God in your writings tohelp you transform them into truth toreplace the fears, then you will receive thehigher perspective.
Guess what is going to happen? Your
mind and perspective will shift, come intotruth, out of fear, and you will truly knowand believe that you can choose to do asyou most deeply prefer.
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Who Is Running Your Life?I know what it feels like to grow up in
a home being degraded, abused, bossedaround, and feeling the deepest desire torun away. Perhaps youre in a similar situa-
tion at home. Or perhaps you used to be.We cannot blame other people for our
personal growth and level of self-accept-ance. The only thing you can do is decideexactly what your truth is and stick to it. Ifthere is a person in your life who is not
honoring you or who is telling you what todo as if you were a puppet on a tight string,the greatest favor you can do for yourself isto remove yourself from the daily barrageof negativity and get into this process ofasking God, your Higher Self, for guidanceso that you can reclaim yourself and yourlife.
I have heard many people, mostly women, who were in marriages or live-inrelationships, say, He wont let me, when
those women wanted to do something.They allowed another person to literallycontrol their lives, and they obeyed out ofconditioned fear.
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If this pertains to you, I strongly urgeyou to do one of the following:
Let the person know that you under-stand where he or she is coming from andthat he or she is entitled to his or her views,opinion, and perspective. Then you can
say, I am the only one who can make mychoices for me. I am going to do what Iprefer because it is my life. I would certain-ly give you the same personal freedom todo what you prefer to do in your own life.I do not feel comfortable with your trying
to run my life for me as if I were a smallchild. Therefore, please know that you areentitled to your views, but I am entitled tolive my own life the way it suits me, for myhappiness. Then, do what you want to do!
Alternatively, if the other person tries tohurt you in any manner, including threats,intimidation, or verbal or physical abuse,ask yourself how much you enjoy beingtreated this way. When you feel your truth,take a brave and bold step intoyour truth
and outof the relationship.Those are your only two options. I have
witnessed far too many people who grewup with a lot of abuse and then attracted
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abusive partners. I have seen these peoplesuffer, and they are still suffering. I can onlyview them with compassion. They are peo-ple I grew up with, and I can no more tellthem what to do any more than I can tellyou what to do.
We each have to live with our choices,and when we find ourselves miserable, wehave to want to get out of the misery morethan we want to remain in it.
If someone is physically abusing you, I
would guide you to call 911 and allow thepolice to remove the abuser from your life.There are laws against physical abuse, butperhaps you live in a country where thereare not yet laws against domestic violence.
Many people have chosen to leave situ-ations of domestic violence; they simplystarted over.
The greatest thing I can guideyouto dois to write to God and ask for guidance
with respect to your own personal circum-
stance and what you can do now, step bystep, one day at a time, so that you cantransform a living nightmare into the beau-tiful life you deserve.
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No one has the right to boss youaround. But even in America, many peopleallow themselves to be bossed around.
You can receive help if you ask for it. You can start over and re-create your lifefrom scratch. Many loving people are avail-
able in this world to guide you toward thehelp and resources you need on the physi-cal level while you continue your personalgrowth and transformation on the emo-tional and spiritual levels.
You can transform your consciousnessby receiving answers from God. You caneven write books to help others, just as Ido.
I never write my books on my ownaccord, from the personality level. I simply
write, Dear God, Can you please give methe next chapter now in this book so ittruly helps people and makes a real differ-ence in their lives? Thank you for divine,pure, and perfect truth in advance. Love,
Barbara.Then, I take seven deep breaths, and
the words just flow into my mind. Whilethey are flowing into my mind, I write in
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longhand very quickly, taking dictation.When I say taking dictation, I mean thatI am only writing down the words that flowinto my mind from God, exactly as I do inany other writing. Once, when I tried to
write a book chapter on my own accord, I
was bored out of my mind. It was terrible!I couldnt stand to read it, and I tossed it.That was when I brought through the bookKnow Yourself: A Womans Guide toWholeness, Radiance, and SupremeConfidence.
I always do much better when I use allsix of my senses rather than trying with
just five.
You can do the same thing, too. Youcan inspire and help many other people as
a result of bringing through a book, a mag-azine article, or a new business that youactually feel excited to wake up to each day.
This process of Higher Self communi-cation is how I and so many other people
receive exactly what we need, one moment,one idea, and one decision at a time.
You are no different from me. You arean equal, worthy human being. Your sixth
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sense, which is Higher Self communica-tion, receives guidance, answers, direction,and clarification that you could not havecome up with previously on your own.
Your sixth sense brings you life-enhancingguidance, and it is the one part of your
nature that nothing and no one can evertake away from you because it is your spir-itual nature.
There are wonderful people who maynot have eyesight, and they still receiveHigher Self communication. They are abeacon in the dark for many people. People
who cannot see well enough to read hand-writing can speak the words that flow intotheir minds from God into a recordingdevice and then listen to what they record-
ed.Eventually, this book will be published
in Braille and be recorded on audio CD orthe latest technological recording device.
There is nothing that you cannot create
in your life if you truly desire to. Thatis thekey. It is your desire.
Do you desire to finally love yourself?Since you are reading this book, I would
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venture to say that the answer is a brilliantyes! Okay, then on the next page you willfind suggested guidelines that have worked
very well for me, guidelines that I havereconditioned myself to follow. Pleaseknow they are not rules, per se; they are
suggestions for a list of inner standards tolive by, guidelines that reflect self-love.
I live by each guideline now, but therewas a time many years ago when I did not.During that time, I was extremely unhap-py. I had not yet transformed my own neg-
ative feelings and beliefs. I hope that theguidelines I share with you in the nextchapter will help you have something torefer back to and remember whenever youfeel anything less than pure self-love andpure self-acceptance. The guidelines are
right on the next page.
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Chapter 5
The following guidelines are here
for you to refer back to any timeyou start to feel down aboutyourself and your life. They will
continue to remind you of your active rolein your own personal transformation con-cerning how you view yourself and the self-love that you feel.
They are phrased in first person to helpyou integrate them, as they continue toremind you of your truth at all times andunder all circumstances.
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1. I am in this life to live according towhat feels true for me alone. I listen tomyself, my heart, and I stop allowingmyself to be ordered around by others,now.
2. When I am asked to do something
that I really do not want to do, I sayno. If the person asks me why, I sim-ply say that I do not feel comfortable
with it or do not feel up to it.
3. I remove myself from any person or
situation that is abusive and hurtful.4. When someone tries to tell me what I
can and cannot do, I thank them fortheir perspective and let them know in
words and actions that I am the onlyone who can make my decisions for
me.
5. Every day I look in the mirror at leasttwo times and tell myself three goodqualities about myself based on myobservable actions.
6. I remind myself that my worth hasnothing to do with my outward cir-cumstances. I know I can change anyouter circumstance I feel unhappy
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about with my decision to change it. IfI cannot change the actual circum-
stance, I know I can always receive the
higher perspective about it, which will
then transform my feelings to under-
standing and inner peace.
7. Every time I compare myself to people
I admire, I remind myself that I have
those same qualities within me, and I
get excited about bringing out that
part of myself in my life.
8. I do only what I feel comfortabledoing with respect to any area of my
life.
9. I ask myself what I would most love to
express in terms of my life direction
and purpose. I get in touch with whatinspires me, and then I follow through
with my actions.
10. I do writings to God, as I personally
understand Him or Her to be, and ask
for guidance any time I feel uncertainabout any situation in my life, and I
ask for guidance so I can move for-
ward in the most positive direction.
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18. I release all blame on others about mylife circumstances, and from thismoment forward take personalresponsibility to create the life I love tolive, one moment at a time.
19. I stop trying to get other people tounderstand me if they do not under-stand. Instead, I simply allow themtheir view while I continue to do whatfeels true for me, as long as it bringsno harm to anyone.
20. I remember that whether or not some-one is in my life is never a reflection ofme; it is merely a reflection of theirpreference, and I honor their prefer-ence without taking it personally andallowing it to hurt me.
21. I remember that whether I believe Ican or I believe I cant, Im right!
22. I know that what I create in my life isan expression of what fills my heart
with joy. It is never a validation of whoI amit is pure expression.
23. I know that outward status does notconstitute a persons worth. All people
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are equally worthy during pleasanttimes and unpleasant times.
24. I realize that my greatest challengeshave been my greatest teachers. I havelearned much from the difficulties Ihave been through, and I help others,
even if only by sharing.
25. I create every circumstance in my life,and I do so in cooperation with oth-ers, all with pure motives.
26. I use the following guideline to mani-
fest the life I came here to live, begin-ning with how I view myself:
A. Decide. I decide how I want tofeel, how I prefer to live, and howI prefer to create my life.
B. Commit. I commit fully to theprocess.
C. Be Willing. I am willing to dowhatever it takes with dignity andpure motives, including the mir-
ror dialogue, to help me shinefrom the inside out.
D. Let Go. I let go of the expecta-tions of others, along with my
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friend. We are fully supportive of eachother and trust each other completely.
29. I listen to my body and rest when Ifeel tired, go for a walk in nature whenI need rejuvenation, and consumeonly what is good for my body.
30. I remember that the goals I am work-ing to achieve constitute everymoment of my life, and I live themout with passion.
31. I ask for support when I need it, and
allow myself to be real.32. In my writings to God, I ask to know
about anything that is unconsciouslyholding me back, and how to trans-form it.
33. In my writings, and each day, I ask tobe divinely guided toward only what isfor my highest good and the highestgood of all.
34. I speak to and treat all others in thesame manner that I would want to be
treated and spoken to.
35. I stop looking for outward status andstart beinga pure change that I wouldlove to see in this world.
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36. I never explain my personal views orspiritual preferences to people whocannot relate. I share what I choose toshare only with people who can besupportive rather than arguing withme to negate my truth.
37. I select my close personal friends verycarefully based on the goodness intheir hearts, and for no other reason.
38. I remember to ask for pointers andguidance from people who are in a
position I would like to move into,and I trust they will be happy to giveme a few pointers in a positive direc-tion.
39. I admit my true feelings to myselfrather than fighting them and trying
to make them go away. They are tryingto tell me something I need toacknowledge and know.
40. I create my lifes work and purposebased solely on heartfelt inspiration.
Passion, not outcomes, fuels my pur-pose.
41. I fully trust that when something doesnot work out the way my personality
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wanted it to, ultimately, it worked outfor my highest good.
42. I trust that any delay is a blessing indisguise.
43. I set priorities for my daily activitiesaccording to what I feel most inspiredto do. My schedule is filled only with
what I love.
44. I stop doing anything that no longerbrings me joy, with the exception ofcaring for my children, and clear out
any part of my life that I no longer feelexcited about.
45. I know that I am the creator today ofwhat my life will look like tomorrow.
46. If I ever worry about what others are
going to think, I remind myself thatanyone can think many things. Whatis most important is followingthrough with what I believe in myheart is real and true, so long as itbrings harm to no one, including
myself.47. I stay away from drama, gossip, nega-
tive people, and negative situations. Isurround myself only with people and
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situations that reflect the pure truthinside my heart.
48. I stop trying to follow what others aredoing, and instead create and bringout what I love as my own uniquecontribution to my life and this world.
49. I remember that no matter how suc-cessful a person may be, the truestform of success is a loving and pureheart. That is priceless and eternal.
50. I really can love myself, and I can feelequal to the rest of the human race. I
just needed to know how; and now, Ido.
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Follow-Through for You
The most important aspect of pure self-love is follow-through.
Follow-through means that what youthink, feel, say, and do are all congruent.They are all perfectly aligned to match yourreal truth.
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