Defining Lonliness

Lonliness is no fun. How is that for a profound thought, eh?

The best way I have found is to accept it, feel it, let it happen. Trying to be tough and strong was less effective. When I just let it in, sooner or later I will surface; still lonely, of course, but finding myself enjoying life while lonely.

I've been lonely all my life, through two marriages and now while single. Probably will die lonely, so I guess I better enjoy it.

Loneliness is an empty space in heart which tries to occupy more space each time you feel low.One way to drive out loneliness is always try to keep doing whatever you love to do the most.Yet we are not machine, sometimes bad emotions or memory creeps in our mind and welcomes loneliness to take charge of our mind.Sometimes I also feel very lonely when my close ones go away.I like your hub very much dori.You have very deep fascinating insights about human feelings and life.Thanks.

Hi Dori, yes it does start with loving the self huh? Sending you loving hugs today :)

Takes courage to share and make oneself vulnerable in a way ,so I know your halfway to where-ever it is you wanted to go, hope that made sense ,lol.

We all ,well majority go through times of self-doubt ,sometimes its hormonal or chemically induced ,other times the crap builds up and needs release. You covered that aspect well in your hub ,and Ive discovered there are two ways people relate to stress, one ,hurt the other person ,two or hurt themselves.

Every morning look in the mirror and say out loud...'Youre a great person" sounds silly , but it works!!

Jesus is my drug of choice ,lol , I just wish you love and peace always.

Self esteem is so important in everyone's life. This is a rich, deeply written hub that I got everything you were expressing. Sometimes we just forget about the other options of improving our self-esteem, excellent advice. Thank you.

The loneliness that you feel is your separation from knowing God on a personal level. He is there for you always, you just need to believe that and stop trying to control the course of your life all by yourself. Rely on God for self worth and validation. Your constant yearning for love and attention, as well as your feeling of extreme loniliness are actually prompting from the Holy Spirit to turn your troubles over to God. Make him a part of your life. He, and he alone will make you feel whole and satisfied within your life. God says, "I am the vine, and you are the branches, together we will bear great fruit, without me you will whither and die, you can do nothing."

Don't look to people to give you what you are searching for, only God can fill that void. Once he does, your concentrations will shift from mere survival mode to a sense of quality and richness. Then others will see THAT in you and realize that you have a lot to offer as a friend, or girlfriend.

Loneliness is a tangible thing that plays with your mind. You keep yourself company by torturing yourself with statements about yourself that are not true. These voices that all sound like your own voice will cruelly say that you are not worthy of love. That the loneliness hurts physically. That you're ugly. That you don't deserve to live. I believe that evil itself can speak at this time and become an almost irresistable force. Suicides happen at this time. I have been there. My children would not visit me when I was separated from my first wife. I was emotionally starved, mentally exhausted. My children were growing up without me and there was no way my marriage was healing. I needed love not sex but of course your body says differently. I stayed celebate for 8 years waiting for the Lord to change my circumstances. I ached to be held, to be intimate, to be needed. He has healed everything now. I am remarried, my children speak to me, and I'm finally happy and absolutely not lonely. Thank you for writing this. Speaking these things is therapeutic. Thank you Dori, you're the best.

Great Hub.Loneliness can sometimes realy affect our health and it can act as a curse.The imp thing is we should be happy with oursleves and learn to live our life on our own.

Dori,

There is one other point I wish to make.

What we focus on tends to expand in our lives. So if we focus on our loneliness, it becomes more acute. We become more aware of how lonely we are. The more we focus on a particular problem, the more control it takes over our life.

The answer is to focus on what you have. One good habit to start is keeping a gratitude journal. Take a notebook and each day write down 5 or 6 things that you are grateful for. The more you focus on what you have in your life you are grateful for, the more important these things will become.

I think Seneca captured this idea best when he said, "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more that is poor."

It is easy to obsess about what we don't have. Count your blessings, be grateful for what you have and it will multiply.

Self-esteem is such a catch 22 isn't it? We need to have enough of it to attract real love into our lives, but if we don't have love in our lives it can obliterate our already low self-esteem. Self-love is a hard concept to learn and even harder to master.

Great hub. And know that you are not only loved but cherished here on HP. (((DORI))) MM

Dori, many of us are conditioned to rely on someone else to validate us. If we learnt to rely on ourselves to be happy, loneliness might never set in. :)

Yes dear is all true..but I am remembering a saying, or part of a song ??? ..."set it free, if it was meant to be it will come back to you..if not it never was meant yours anyway"

You know people will think what they want ; no matter what...so just 'say what you mean, and mean what you say' and always be true to YOUR Heart ..God Bless...:O) Hugs

Fortunerep: When I learned to love myself, which means appreciating as the Desiderata poem says that I am "a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars", I ended feeling much more at peace within, and when we feel more integrated on the inside, we stop doing things that are hurtful to ourselves. I can enjoy being alone or with someone. John's words are beautiful, filled with wisdom.

Thanks for writing this, made me pause and think.

Unless you can love yourself, you will be at the mercy of others to provide you what you need. If you love yourself, look after yourself, accept yourself, you shall be filled with your own needs and desires. You will have achieved fulfillment at this point, and it won't matter what others can or cannot give you. You have become independent.