My Story For Finally Achieving Self-Love

Oh, all the hurtful things we say ourselves. It’s hard to shut down that critical voice in our heads but it’s even harder to enjoy living with that critical voice on all the time. So, how can we integrate more self-love into our lives? The secret is in your daily routine.

Sure, that critical voice in your head serves some purposes. I
t pushes you forward and helps you improve yourself. But in the end, self-doubt ends up hurting us and keep us lagging behind, instead of running at full speed towards our dreams and goals and take responsibility for achieving our goals.

Building your self-confidence can help you tremendously to achieve the things you want in life. It can help you communicate your desires and thoughts better with people, whether it’s with a partner or at workplace. And confidence is strongly linked to self-love.

When we do things out of love, anything becomes more easier to achieve and comes our way.

When we can trust ourselves to make the right decisions, we can really expand and achieve more.

Let’s dive deep into a few ways we can incorporate more self-love into our daily lives:

1.Never underestimate the power of positive affirmations.

You may have heard of this before, but some people learn better when listening while others are more visual learners. However your learning style preference is, make sure to tell yourself positive affirmations you wish in that way. Do you learn easier while listening? Make sure to say out loud every day positive affirmations like: “I am happy. I am successful. I am smart.”

Are you more of a visual learner? Then you can write those positive affirmations on a piece of paper every day or tell yourself in front of a mirror. Mirror declarations help you visualize those positive affirmations in the context of you.

2. Take full responsibility for your life and take actions that cultivate self-love.

Blaming others for problem areas in our life can be a coping mechanism or a survival pattern we’ve picked up while enduring trauma.
How can be?

3. Ask yourself questions.

Don’t be afraid to ask yourself questions that will help you get to know your likes better. Knowing oneself is one of the greatest virtues in life.
What makes you happy and brings you joy? What makes you feel like you’re moving forward in your life?
Whatever the answer may be, make sure to integrate more of that in your life.

4. Release the habit of judging yourself and replace it instead with the act of observing yourself neutrally.

This is one of the main teachings of the famous, Oprah-recommended book “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle. Tolle recommends his readers this release of judgment and rather observing oneself’s state as neutrally as one can. He explains that this allows to inject more constructive thinking into your mind and helps you assess your situation and address it with positive action instead, “Okay, here is the situation. This has passed but what can I do about it now?”

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