How to Love Yourself

In dealing with others and reacting to their negative emotions, i would just return to the one true thing in my head, i love myself. So what's practical, was transformative? To consciously choose a thought, then practise it again and again with emotion, with feeling, with acceptance. Choose one that transforms you, makes your life zing. The most powerful of these is 'i love myself', regardless of whether or not you believe it. Do this with enough intensity over time, and the mind will have no choice but to follow thought. If we are made of atoms and molecules, and they in turn from smaller particles that are empty space and energy, then what are we rea thoughts