Nothing is more important and more practical than having a healthy sense of self-worth, and this comes from loving yourself unreservedly. When the way you look at yourself is positive, then everything else about your life follows that path, and life becomes simpler, happier, and brighter.Why is loving yourself important? Because every relationship you will have with someone else will reflect the relationship you have with yourself. If you love yourself wholeheartedly, you will love other people with the same fervor.Far too many people look down on themselves or look to others for affirmation and validation. They feel low and needy, which results in one of two things: they either self-sabotage, or they start craving attention from other people.Out of a lack of self-love can stem a greed for affection, looking to others for love. People with low self-esteem start doing things out of the wrong motivation and out of focus. They starve themselves to death just to be thin or sexy enough, work themselves to death just to be successful enough, expose themselves to exaggerated pain and suffering just to be accepted enough