5 Reasons to Love Yourself—Even When Loving Yourself Feels Hard.
By Brand X
11th September, 2021
1. Self-loathing and self-criticism are not effective ways to motivate yourself: They always backfire eventually. If you beat yourself up enough, you’re bound to change, right? So you put yourself down over a hundred things—how awkward you are when you meet new people, how unmotivated you are in your work, or how unproductive you are as you go throughout your day.
2. Loving and accepting yourself is the most effective way to create long-term change in your life: I know it sounds counterintuitive by claiming that the best way to change yourself is to accept yourself. But through my own experience and what I have heard from many people, I'm learning that it is really self-love that allows us to grow. Self-love helps us see our own potential, allows us to forgive ourselves when we take a step backward, and eliminates the shame spiral that so often lands us right back where we started.
3. Loving yourself allows you to love others deeper: Think about much time and energy we spend thinking about ourselves. How to act in a certain social situation. How to flatter your body with clothes and makeup. How to maneuver yourself into a job position, a relationship, or a different pant size. How to quell the worry and overwhelm inside your mind. When you’re less preoccupied with yourself, you can focus on others more.
4. Loving yourself frees you from worrying about what others think of you: This is one of my favorite reasons to love yourself. For every part of myself that I’ve decided to accept over the years, I’ve felt the pressure of other people’s opinions fall away. It’s like shedding layers of clothes… or bricks in a backpack on my shoulders… and I feel so much lighter with every outside expectation I manage to release.
5. Loving yourself allows you to make peace with the past: Do you ever catch yourself reliving past failures? Or ruminating on what you said—and what you wish you’d said instead? When you love yourself like you would love a friend, you start to realize some changes about your love life. She was doing her best, and that’s all anyone can ask.
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