Learning to love yourself can be difficult but if you can practice self love, it will
solve a lot of problems in your life. It can help you a lot with your confidence and self
esteem so learning how to love yourself will help you feel better. There are a lot of ways
you can practice self love so here are 10 ways you can learn how to love yourself.
1. Set some days off for yourself to have fun. If you work hard then you should also
play hard. If you are constantly working but you aren’t giving yourself any time off
to have fun, you are not going to have a good time. I know if you love what you are doing
then work isn’t really work but you still need to reward yourself for all the work you
put in. Also, if you overwork yourself you are going to do more damage. Just taking a
break to have some fun is a great way to love and care for yourself.
2. Live life for yourself instead of someone else. I know a lot of people that are unhappy
with where they are currently at because they are living life for someone else. Just because
your friends and family expect you to be a doctor doesn’t mean you have to be one.
If your interests lie elsewhere, you should choose the career that you think will make
you happy. If you let other people’s opinions control how you live your life, you won’t
be able to love the person you are. After all, that person isn’t even who you want
to be. Live life for yourself so you can be proud of who you are and love yourself.
3. Take care of your physical health. Taking care of your body is the same as taking care
of yourself which is the same as loving yourself. This one seems a bit obvious but not everyone
takes care of their physical health. A lot of people associate taking care of your physical
health with going to the gym and changing your diet completely but you don’t have
to do those things if you are not up to it. Just doing little things like going outside
for a 20 minute walk everyday and cutting out processed foods from your diet can improve
your physical health. 4. Stop complaining. This is a lot easier
said than done since everyone complains and it's kinda natural to just complain. The point
of this method is to get you to stop complaining and work on fixing the problem instead. When
you complain, you are basically saying you are someone who doesn’t care about bettering
myself. Listening to someone complain is annoying so why should you complain as well? You wouldn’t
like who you are when you are complaining so don’t go there.
5. Challenge yourself. This might seem odd to you but let me explain. If you let yourself
stay at the same level forever that isn’t loving yourself. In fact, you are doing yourself
a disservice. You grow the most when you are faced with a challenge and overcome it. If
you don’t challenge yourself then you can’t really grow as a person. Try to take the leap
and go to the next level in the things you are doing so you can grow and love yourself.
When you challenge yourself, you also get to know yourself better and learn what you
are capable of. Challenging yourself will lead to you understanding yourself better
which will lead to you loving yourself. 6. Give yourself credit where credit is due.
You should reward yourself when you get some wins. It’s good to celebrate when you accomplish
something. When your friend accomplishes something big you probably congratulate them so you
should do the same for yourself. Go reward yourself and do something you enjoy outside
of work. Give yourself the credit you deserve to love yourself.
7. Do the Improvement Pill method. Improvement Pill has a video on self love and this step
is based on that. The 1st step is to find someone you really like or admire. It could
be a celebrity or friend or even a fictional character. The 2nd step is to find out the
personality trait they have that makes you admire them. The final step is to take that
trait and add it to your character or personality. If you take the traits of people you admire
and add them to yourself then you will love yourself more. The reason this works is because
we all have traits in ourselves we don’t like. If you have more traits you dislike
versus like then you won’t love yourself but if you have more traits you like instead
of dislike then you can love yourself. 8. Forgive yourself for past mistakes and
screw ups. We all messed up in the past but some of us let those mistakes haunt us. Some
of us might have issues loving ourselves due to those mistakes. You need to forgive yourself
for those mistakes to start loving yourself again. If you can look back at some poor choices
you made in the past and forgive yourself, you can then start moving on from the past
and forget about it. Loving yourself requires you to be able to accept what happened in
the past, even if it was a mistake. This step is really helpful to help you improve your
self worth and I believe everyone should do this.
9. Work on self trust. A great way to know if you love yourself or not is to see if you
trust yourself and your own instincts. If you can’t even trust yourself then you obviously
don’t love yourself. You are supposed to know yourself the best and know what you want,
not someone else. Self trust is one of the first steps towards self love and you need
to work on it if you can’t even trust yourself. Start listening to your gut more and trust
how you feel to start trusting yourself. You will be surprised to know that you will be
correct more than you will be wrong when you trust your gut.
10. Try new things. You should try something you always wanted to do but didn’t have
time for it or you were too scared to start. You never know if it is something you might
enjoy a lot. If you do end up enjoying it, you will love yourself a lot more for trying
out that new thing. Going out of your comfort zone helps you grow as a person and as stated
before, if you are not challenging yourself then you are not practicing self love. Going
out of your comfort zone is a good thing and it helps you love yourself.
To love yourself, treat yourself like someone you would actually love. All the methods mentioned
in this video help you do exactly that. Which method was your favorite? Leave a comment
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