If this is about unconditional love for yourself then it can't be based on any condition. As soon as there is "I love myself because ..." or "I love myself for ..." it stops being unconditional. If this is about increasingly less conditional love, that's fine. I started with a sense of humor and with forgiving myself for the situation I was in. Increasingly I began to realize that there was very little about me that was actually unique to me. Maybe that doesn't sound very good, but it came as a relief to realize that the people around me were going through the same problems and figuring out the same questions. I was overestimating what it is just to have a human experience, and under-valuing myself at the same time.
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