9 of the best ways to love yourself:
by Joe · 32 things on Twos
- Appreciate how special you are
- There will never be anyone exactly like you. You were given special gifts and talents, nobody will use theirs quite the same way you do.
- Drown yourself in affirmations
- Figure out which affirmations you need to hear the most and repeat them all day long in your head
- “I am brilliant, bright, and beautiful”
- The more emotion you feel seeing what you’re saying, the more power it will have to bring positive change.
- At first, it may feel like you are lying to yourself, but you’re also living the lie. So this just gets you back to the truth.
- You have to feel it and get worked up by it in order for it to be effective.
- Do things you love
- Make a conscious effort to increase your joy in whatever capacity you can.
- Take care of yourself as if you’re the most important person you’ve ever met
- Find a replacement
- Free yourself from the drama and conviction that your current version of yourself is the truth
- Figure out when you are being most heinous to yourself and find a replacement
- Do not spend your life clinging to the insulting decisions you’ve made about yourself.
- Ditch the self depreciating humor
- They’re the easiest jokes to make and they become your reality.
- Push yourself to come up with a new script. Your confidence will thank you.
- Let the love in
- Receive compliments gracefully
- Don’t compare yourself to others
- It’s none of your business what other people are doing. All that matters is you’re enjoying yourself and pleased with what you’re creating.
- It’s precisely your uniqueness that makes you awesome— deciding that someone else is uniquenesses better than your own makes no sense
- Avoid comparison like the plague
- Forgive yourself (extremely important)
- You have screwed up in the past and will screw up in the future.
- Dragging around guilt and self-criticism is unhealthy and utterly pointless.
- You aren’t a better person for feeling guilty or bad, just a sadder one.
- Get clear: guilt, shame, and self-criticism are some of the most destructive forces in your life. Which is why forgiving yourself if the most powerful.
- “Holding onto my bad feelings about this is doing nothing but harming me, and everyone else, and preventing me from enjoying my life fully. I am an awesome person. I choose to enjoy my life. I choose to let this go.”
- Love yourself
- Because it’s the holy grail of happiness