To lead a truly fulfilled life you must love yourself first. It is not selfish. It is mandatory. The problem arises when people try to figure out who their True Self actually is.

Your True Self is who you were when you were born-before parents, siblings and authorities defined you with limiting programs like good girl, smart kid, cute kid, trouble maker, lazy person, etc. Each of those programs repeatedly bombarded you, leaving you with file folders that created your self-image.

As a small child you could not stop any information from entering your subconscious. All those programs exist out of your awareness.

You are not who those folders, in your subconscious mind, tell you that you are. You are a Divine Being having a human experience. You are Love and Light. You are part of the Creator, God, Universe-whatever term works for you. As such you possess the qualities that the Creator has-abundance. Sharing, giving and receiving for the act of sharing-to name a few.

Your True self never went away. It grew hidden by all those useless file folders that crowd your subconscious mind. The way to find that You who you were at birth is to go within and talk to that part of you.

Meditation is one great way to go within, to ask your questions and to receive solutions.

Set your intention, before meditating, that you want to gather more information about who you were at birth. Learn how to connect with your Higher Self, your immortal Spirit that knows everything about you-past, present and future. Of course it knows because it is you--the complete you.

Being your soul, your Higher Self will always and only give you information that is in your highest and best interest. You often receive that information through a little voice you call your intuition. Those strange feelings you get in your gut telling you to do something unexpectedly, suddenly and without explanation-those messages come from your intuition.

Those communications always let you know something vital to your well being. Did you ever get a gut feeling then ignored it only to wish you had acted on it? Will you ever do so again? Probably, and you will also regret it again.

Learn how to get in touch with your Higher Self any time and any place so you can always get accurate information that you need before making decisions. Learning how to communicate with your Higher Self is not hard but it takes a while and you must practice what you learn consistently.

The rewards? A great life with fewer bumps in the road.