In this solo YouTube episode, Vivek George leads a guided self‑love practice focused on forgiveness. He opens by explaining why his confidence and self‑worth felt depleted and why daily self‑love work matters, then introduces forgiveness as a tool to deepen self‑belief and compassion. He cites a Martin Luther King Jr. quote about the link between forgiveness and love, framing the practice as essential for both self‑acceptance and loving others. The session follows a structured format: a personal emotional check‑in, a period of silent self‑forgiveness where viewers are prompted to name themselves and specific mistakes to release, then a shift to forgiving others (with suggestions for choosing easier or more distant targets if recent hurts feel too painful). After the exercises, Vivek does a checkout, noting his own mood improvement, and invites viewers to share their check‑ins, check‑outs, and forgiveness experiences in the comments. He concludes with a call to like, subscribe, and share the video with anyone who could benefit from daily self‑worth practice, reinforcing community support as part of the self‑love journey.
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Hey guys, welcome back to another day of this self-love journey. Uh, my name is Vivek if you don't know me, and I'm going through a self-love journey with all of you. Uh, started a few days ago when I realized that my self-love practice had declined and that there was still a huge hole in my confidence and my self-worth, my self-belief, that I needed to find a solution to. So I'm excited to show up every day to practice for myself, but also to practice with all of you because I believe by working together, the coming together and seeing people watching this video and sharing their comments and sharing their growth, that over time we will continue to build our confidence and our belief in ourselves and heal ourselves. So today we're going to do today's exercise. Every day we do something different if you haven't joined in before, but today we're going to practice forgiveness. We're going to practice forgiveness towards ourself and maybe to somebody else if we feel like that. And I always like to start off with a quote or an idea to maybe use as a mantra or something to think about during this practice and maybe throughout the day. And so today's quote is from Martin Luther King. He wrote, We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who's devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. And I think this one, this quote's so applicable to what we're doing today in terms of practicing forgiveness, because if we don't have the ability to forgive others, it's not really truly possible to love ourselves and most— more— also importantly, not more importantly, but also importantly, to forgive others. I'm sorry, to love others. And so it's important to practice forgiveness like self-love. Practicing forgiveness on a regular basis is important to cultivate love for ourselves and for others. And so for today's practice, we're going to try to think about something First, with ourselves, maybe one or two things, or maybe a couple things if you have the time that you wanna forgive yourself for. I definitely can think of one thing that sort of kicked off this practice that I would love to like take a moment to reflect on and to forgive myself for. And then we're gonna take a little, or try to shift our energy towards trying to forgive others in our lives. And that might be harder. Maybe that's easier, maybe it's harder, I don't know. But if it is harder and you don't feel capable, maybe there's somebody way in the past that's so long ago that you can try to forgive that harmed you, that maybe doesn't have such a strong sting to it. But if it really is hard to forgive anybody or anyone more recently, then try to think of some other things that you want to forgive yourself for, if that's easier. Okay, and before we get started with that practice, We're going to— oh, I always like to do a check-in, how we're feeling before we do the practice, and then do a check-out on how we're feeling after we do the practice. So how am I feeling? I'm feeling okay. Yeah, some stuff related to what kicked off this practice is continuing to linger in my life, and I feel bad I keep mentioning it, but it is, it's sort of lingering. And yeah, but I would say it's coming to a good place. So I would say I'm kind of up and down a little bit at this moment, but always happy to be making these videos. That's my check-in. I'll give you a little space for you guys to take a moment to think to yourself about how you're feeling right now. Okay. Yeah. And leave a comment if you want to share your check-in and check-outs and obviously what you're trying to forgive yourself and others in the comments. Love to read them. Love to respond to them. And, you know, like I say, what we put into something is what we get out. So if you want to grow in this practice, I think it would be helpful if you feel like leaving a comment to do that. Okay. So how— so let's— I'll give you everybody a little time now to first work on forgiving themselves for a few things. So just maybe take some time to think internally, reflect, to sort of say to yourself, I forgive myself. I forgive you, Vivek, or forgive you, Sarah, or forgive you, John or Matt or whatever your name is. To forgive yourself. Okay, let's do that for a few minutes, a few seconds. If you need some direction, just sort of saying, you know, like I said, you say your name. I forgive you. Um, I forgive you, Vivek, for, uh, harming this person. Her name is— I prefer to keep her name to myself. Um, or my ex. I can say I "Vivek, I forgive you for being really hard on Ulla. You were doing the best you could at the time, but you obviously, you know, lost your temper, but I forgive you for that." Or I can say, "Vivek, I forgive you for being so harsh on your mom. You know, I know she frustrates you and that you lose your temper sometimes, but it's okay." It's okay. You, you're human. You make mistakes. I forgive you. So maybe that's helpful examples, and I'll let you quietly forgive yourself. Okay, gonna wrap up in a few seconds. Okay, now let's shift to trying to think of somebody in our lives that's harmed us that we can forgive. Maybe one or two people, or a single person, whatever feels right for you. Okay, we'll wrap up pretty soon. Okay, great. Let's wrap that up. Perfect. Awesome. Nice job, guys. Um, a little pat on the back towards ourselves for completing another day of this self-love journey. So we'll do a quick checkout. How am I feeling? I would say a little bit better. I would say a little bit more on the positive side and not as sort of in between. So I guess that's good. And give you a moment to also check in with yourself. Cool. Awesome. So I hope to hear from you guys in the comments. If this video was helpful, consider liking and subscribing to the channel. And if there's somebody in your life that you think could use the practice of self-worth or self-belief on a daily basis, please share the channel and this video with them. Thank you so much for joining me and have a wonderful day. And don't forget to love yourself. Take care.
