Love yourself

We all know that loving ourself is important and As human being we think that automatically  we love ourself  by default.
 while practical we fail to do so unknowingly...
So let us see what it means  to love  oneself and how:
To love oneself includes  having self positive image, self respect and self unconditional acceptance.


Loving one self means to acknowledge and wholeheartedly embrace the existence of self and allow yourself to be who you are truly are
This does not makes you stop improving in different areas but it actually help you to improve once you know who you are :your strength and weakness.

How can we love ourselves?

You can show love to yourself by understanding yourself and for that you need:

  •   a positive self image.


Self-image is how you perceive yourself.
It is a number of self-impressions that have built up over time: What are your hopes and dreams? What do you think and feel? What have you done throughout your life and what did you want to do? These self-images can be very positive, giving a person confidence in their thoughts and actions, or negative, making a person doubtful of their capabilities and ideas.

Self image is how you see yourself therefore you can choose to see you in positive way despite the hardships and failure you been went through and take all of it as a process of making better you:
a person you are at a time.

 your self-image can be very different from how the world sees you. Some people who outwardly seem to have it all (intelligence, looks, personal and financial success) may have a bad self-image. Conversely, others who have had a very difficult life and multiple hardships may also have a very positive self-image. So do yourself a favor  by keeping a positive image about yourself remember  this decision revolves around you alone.


  • Unconditional self-acceptance:


This is all about embracing who you are by accepting everything that makes you who you are : your race, your hair, your weight,height,achievements...
 the very  single detail about you.
Stop hate yourself for something you can't  change embrace all you are!  remember all of that  makes you unique.

  • Self-respect:


To truly love yourself involves the way you respect yourself in everything you do, and how you deal with different circumstances.
For example:  to dress according to occasions, use your words carefully and choose what to post online and what to save for yourself,..
Ouch

  when you truly love yourself you don't do anything  desperately.
Remember "once you love yourself you will never do something desperately for  you will always have a choice: and that is you of course!"
which is impossible when you don't.

  • Taking care of oneself  

Taking care of oneself involves cherish yourself:

physically 

like exercise, eating healthy, involving in health relationships drinking enough water, having enough rest and worry less...

Emotionally

understand your emotions and not  run from them but stand and deal with them in proper way..

Accepting your failure and learn from them
Thomas A. Edison said" i have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"
Who knows you find your own ways that don't work!

To understand onseld emotionally also have much to deal with  go out and have fun, free yourself from Stress and anything that can affect your mental health and forgive everything you've  done that offended You!

  • Spiritual discipline:


  your spirit is your responsibility!
Yes it is. So you can choose to follow  God heartedly or ignore Him.
Bible says" What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
Matthew 16:26 "

Therefore  for your own benefit don't take any decision that can endanger your spirit.
In bible, the book of Deuteronomy 30:19 NIV says "this day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live"
the choice is all yours!

People love differently so you can love yourself differently but please do It!

Lastly, I want to emphasize on this: Love oneself  does not mean being arrogant, conceited or thinking that you are better than anyone else. It means having a healthy regard for yourself knowing that you are a worthy human being and it will be projected on how you treat others as bible commanded us to love others as ourself which is  hard to do when you don't love love yourself!
So come on guys let us love ourself so that we can love others as well.

Mamilla Pauline
Thanks for reading.


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