An important part of our awakening process and spiritual practice is learning to be loving and gentle with ourselves. Through being reconnected to God's divine love, we begin to unwind from the Ego agendas when we rediscover our true nature is love and gentleness. These Ego agendas can include pushing ourselves hard within work and relationship commitments, berating and beating ourselves up when things go wrong, criticising ourselves harshly and ignoring our deepest feelings.