If you’re unsure about how to start establishing self-love, learn and practice these six tips to gradually start loving yourself more every day: Ask your feeling self, your inner child: “What am I thinking or doing that’s causing the painful feelings of anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, jealousy, anger, loneliness, or emptiness?” Allow the answer to come from inside, from your intuition and feelings. Once you understand what you’re thinking or doing that’s causing these feelings, ask your ego about the fears and false beliefs leading to self-abandoning thoughts and actions. By this point, you’ve already opened up to your pain, moved into learning, started a dialogue with your feelings, and tapped into your spiritual guidance. Step 5 involves taking one of the loving actions you identified in Step 4. However small they may seem at first, over time these actions add up. RELATED STORY: A 6-Step Process To Actually Learn To Love Yourself Loving and connecting with yourself is the key to being able to love and connect with others and create loving relationships. Loving yourself is the key to creating a passionate, fulfilled, and joyful life.