Loving Yourself
Loving Yourself – A Checklist
Even if loving yourself isn’t frequently on your mind, you’ll benefit enormously from recognizing the impact that accepting and caring for yourself can have on your everyday life and relationships.
Practice self-love every single day. If you do, you’ll prosper and come closer to achieving the life you truly deserve. To cultivate self-love, start with these tips and see how you can expand them to suit your own life.
Your Physical Self: Looking After Your Body
Take more time with your appearance.
Make a change today.
Put energy into yourself.
Notice your physical “positives.”
Sleep more.
Brighten up.
Ask yourself what your body requires.
Consistently focus on your physical self.
Acknowledge all that your body does for you.
Show commitment to loving yourself.
Your Intellectual Self: Feeding Your Mind
Do something you’ve longed to do.
Write down your life priorities.
Foster your passions and dreams.
Ensure you’ve got a real life with real people.
Stop doing something just because “it’s always been this way.”
Take a personal inventory of your life.
Consider the bigger picture.
Tell yourself you deserve it.
Find your inner power.
Your Emotional Self: Understanding and Respecting Your Feelings
Accept yourself as you are.
Claim responsibility for your own life.
Avoid negativity toward yourself.
Forgive others.
Send out positive vibes to other people.
Say you’re sorry if you are.
Let go of any negative feelings you may carry toward others.
Cultivate self-respect.
Your Spiritual Self: Caring for Your Soul
Make each morning a good morning.
Change your personal space.
Turn on the tunes.
Turn off the gadgets.
Allow yourself to feel love from others.
Immerse in nature.
Be adventurous.
Recognize that time is of the essence.
Summary
When you devote even a little time and energy to accepting and loving yourself, your life will be enriched. Connections with others will be stronger. And you’ll be more apt to achieve your dreams.
Love yourself in some way each day to keep your passion flowing and accomplish your greatest desires!
6 Amazing Benefits Of Learning To Love Yourself
No matter how much the hardest among us deny this – we all have a desire to be loved. Often, it’s a romantic love that we crave. We are caught up in our loneliness and it’s normal to have a want for companionship. Though, romance isn’t everyone’s struggle or want – it may be a familial want or a platonic friendship. While, for some it may be a combination of all of these.
Rejection and hurt can leave us feeling unfulfilled and disillusioned with how we expect relationships to play out. When they don’t go as we want them to we often blame ourselves and wonder where we went wrong… that’s not what it’s about.
This is where learning to love yourself comes in – and that comes with some incredible benefits, here are six.
You’ll Be Large & In Charge
Instead of making bad choices because you’re being led by shame, guilt or fear – you will be empowered to make choices that truly make sense for who you are – meaning you will be living your authentic life. You will no longer be caught up with people pleasing, instead you will live a life that brings you satisfaction. Self-love means trying to honor yourself because you know your needs are just as important as others.
You Set Boundaries & Stick To Them
Once you have the hang of honoring your needs you start to feel more confident, which means you are more assertive. Of course, this results in a more purposeful attitude, especially when it comes to dating. You start to see who is wasting your time and you’re strong enough to move forward without them. More to the point, you are strong enough to set clear boundaries with people and stick to them.
The Approval Seeking Will Stop
When you truly love yourself, you stop worrying about what everyone else thinks about you – which means you’re a less defensive person and more confident about living a life that is authentic for you. Why would you need acceptance from everyone else when you truly accept yourself?
You Will Be A Conscious Decision Maker
Loving yourself gives you the courage to cut things from your life that don’t truly bring you joy or provide you with ample space to grow. It’s easy to make courageous decisions when you value yourself and actively make choices that are intended to honor you, rather than risk harming you.
You Will Enjoy Alone Time
A lot of people get caught up in keeping busy schedules simply because they’re terrified of feeling or being alone. You surround yourself with people, throw yourself into work, and make decisions that help you avoid that loneliness. Why would you do all of the things that you don’t love? You could be filling that time with things that you actually enjoy doing – whether it’s meditation, swimming, writing or watching a movie. It doesn’t need to feel scary to spend time alone, you should enjoy time with yourself. Self-love brings more comfort when you’re spending time in your own company.
Happiness
You don’t need to find happiness in relationships, whether they’re romantic or not. The only love that you truly need to be happy is the love of yourself. When you start taking responsibility for it and stop giving your power away to everyone else, you will naturally feel happier. If you’re not in a romantic relationship you will find that you aren’t as desperate to be in one as you once were because you know you don’t need them. When the right person shows up, you will be ready for that love.
LOVE YOURSELF
Alan /|\
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