Reading Time: 3 minutes What is self-love? Wikipedia describes self-love this way: Self-love is the strong sense of respect for and confidence in oneself. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-love) Respect? Confidence? Is it the same to respect a person as to love them? I don’t think so. The same applies to the self. Respecting yourself is a sign that you value yourself. But this does not necessarily means that you love yourself.  Self-love is a feeling, not a value. Is being confident about someone’s behavior or ability the same as loving them? No again. What wikipedia describes is self-esteem, not self-love. And the difference, while subtle, is at the core of self-empowerment and self-fulfillment. How is self-love different from self-esteem? Many of us believe that we are OK because we have a good self-esteem. What this often means is that we “know” that we are valuable and that what we do is good.We know it because we have a sense of the value of our talents and skills. We may have had experience in the past of helping others. We have received positive feedback. We may have gotten [Read more.]