If we carefully scan with our sight and hearing, the online or offline environment, we come across encouragements that say “love yourself,” “be friends with yourself,” “focus on yourself, you are the most important person in your life,” “raise your self-esteem”...
We have become a society of individuals, partially and incompletely aware of our own value, narcissistic and self-sufficient.
We increasingly need motivational literature, personal development courses, trainers to "lead" us to the heights of success at any cost.
On the other hand, you also know the spiritual axiom "self-love does not smell good" or "self-praise does not smell good."
We are dealing with two extremes here, and life does not function long-term in extremes, it balances the partners' vectors, re-establishing the center.
Self-love makes us see ourselves through a helioscope and others through a microscope (preferably an electronic one because it has a higher resolution than the light one), we find faults even when they don't exist, self-esteem is often an exaggeration of self in which we perceive ourselves as self-sufficient and omit real connection with those around us.
I think a lot can be said from various perspectives, but I would like to "filter" it, to refine its meaning through the lens of the psycho-neuro-immunological functionality that characterizes the human body.
If from tomorrow a cell thinks it is the most important entity in its existence and only sees itself, it could say:
-that "it wants a vacation,"
-that it weakens its constant attention to the "gates" of the membrane, to those tireless ion pumps
-that it stops the mitochondrial factory for a few days,
-that it is too much ATP (adenosine triphosphate) to generate per second as an energy source, it can manage with ADP (adenosine diphosphate) or AMP (adenosine monophosphate)
-that it no longer uses cytochrome P450 or glutathione transferase for detoxification (and then any treatment, retreat, cure or detoxification program is in vain),
-that it becomes independent (without knowing that it will end up in a tumoral regression)
-that it no longer listens to the directive biochemical "impulses" arriving via neuronal electricity,
-that it no longer assembles amino acids to build enzymes and proteins,
-that it no longer serves the tissue it is part of for a while
-that it leaves its role to the neighbor
-that it wants to become more visible, more potent, more ageless and lets more sodium and calcium into the cell because they are motivators of intracellular signals (without knowing that this is the sure decision of the death sentence).
More does not mean more sustainable.
Younger does not mean happier.
-that it no longer gives a hand to biochemical signals with the partner next to it who may be part of the organ stroma, its connective support environment, or its immune system
-that it is too much to always harmonize with other organs and listen to the control panel - the brain
-that... it no longer takes on many other biochemical tasks that it performs every moment, and everything will enter into discord, chaos, and confusion.
In Sanskrit, "paramita" means "who has reached the goal," who "has crossed beyond."
All cells, if not under the influence of the egotistical impulse or instinct, reach the goal, the sense of certainty, of giving and loving through a precognitive or supracognitive sense if we want, called intuition.
This meta-sense works spontaneously, instantly, innately for each cell and travels the same axonal highways that fantasy and illusion travel on, often trying to correct the latter.
Perhaps the cellular model would be useful to embrace, there we meet the qualities of the lucid mind by giving up being the center of the universe, by not focusing on the selfish mirror of ephemeral pleasures, of passions-pains, and turning a humble gaze towards the one next to us with whom we form a tissue, an organ, a system, a world!
Self-love, I believe, is constituted by looking at ourselves and around us at the same time: we have reached a "tissue" where we are needed, where our responses, our mission, alongside other human-cells, with their values and meanings, in a continuous dance guided by a vertical music (that does not record pauses, syncopations, or intermittences), towards an infinite rationality (awareness) to which the entire Universe naturally tends. I intentionally used the word rationality because it has come into disapproval.
But it is not thought or rationality per se that are the problem, but the polarization, clinging to thoughts, and anchylosing in a mental map. The process itself has the potential for neutrality.
And yes, self-love, without taking control of ourselves (managing impulses, reactions, inner balance) and without centering in the environment that supports us, does not smell good!
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