All too often we explore people scrunching up their nose at the mention of self-love, as if it’s a bit cheesy and self-indulgent. But learning to love yourself is one of the most powerful and significant things you can do in life journey for fearless motivation. Your heart is your power and when you become the source of love in your own life cycle it changes everything. Your relationships, your career, your health – they all thrive when you begin to love yourself.
But while we all understand deep down that it’s significant to love yourself, we explore the area that people get most stuck on is actually understanding how to do it.
At Project Love, we love to look at self-love as an art that can be mastered and practiced over time. When we practice self-love, we cultivate a healthy and loving relationship with ourselves and something magical occurs – we become our own best buddy.
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1. Nourish yourself
If you’re totally new to the practice of self-love then begin with concentrate on nourishing yourself. Nourish your body is the most basic format of loving yourself, so this week become mindful of what you put in your body – offer it what it loves. Start your day with a green smoothie, treat yourself to a raw chocolate snack and making time to cook yourself a nutritious dinner full of superfoods. The manner we feed ourselves reflects how we like ourselves. So get good at nourishing yourself and you’ll lay awesome foundations to self-love.
2. Take yourself out on a date
If you’ve never taken yourself out on a date before then make this month that you do it. Solo-dating is all about to spend out quality time with yourself and doing something special, just for you. It is one of the most powerful (and fun) stuff you can do when it comes to practice self-love. By doing something special for yourself – something you’d normally do with someone else – you give yourself the love and attention you’d normally only offer out to others. You’re finally turn your love in on yourself. We’ve had clients do anything to treat themselves to coffee and a cake at their favourite cafe to take themselves away on a spa weekend. Whatever individuals do, they always come away buzzing from it.
3. Start a gratitude journal
It has been proven that just by writing down few things that you’re thankful for each day, you can train your brain to be much more positive, treat yourself to an overall feel of happiness. It is a key tool when it comes to practice self-love as it has us step into an attitude of gratitude, abundance and love. So buy yourself a notebook and at the end of each day, for the next week, pen up 5 things you’re thankful for and see how good it feels to end your day this manner.
And as well as giving thanks for stuff that have occured to you that day and the humans in your life cycle that you’re grateful for, also involve yourself in your gratitude practice. Find at least one stuff you can thank yourself for every day and you’ll check out your relationship with yourself shift into an especially loving place.
4. Make your body happy
It is necessary when learn to love ourselves that we concentrate plenty of time and attention on our bodies. How we feel in our bodies straight way affects how we feel in ourselves. Often lack of love and emotions of loneliness actually stem from our own disconnect with our bodies. You need to keep that gorgeous body of yours emotions energised and fullest of liveliness. So it’s significant that as chunk of your self-love routine you do stuff that make you feel great in your body; whether that’s yoga, running, 80’s Aerobics or dancing such as Beyonce (a particular favourite of ours)!
5. Express yourself
It’s so significant to explore manner to really express yourself and feel free to be totally you. Whether it’s dancing, singing, writing, acting, painting, cooking, sculpting, making music, DJ’ing, sketching, poetry or pottery– everyone has something that does it for them. It’s often something we did naturally as kid. It’s always something that makes us feel completely alive.
So what is it for you? When do you feel you can really let go and be who you faithfully are? If it’s not something you do at the moment, then think back to early years. What makes you come alive and really connect with the deep chunk of yourself? Now go and make time for it in your life cycle for everyday power. Whether it’s unleash your inner Rihanna on the dance floor, sing such as no-one’s listening or painting in big bold brush strokes, just for the fun of it, it’s necessary that you make time to do the stuff that permit you to really express yourself from the heart.
6. Pen up a loving letter to yourself
Pick up a pen and with the same fondness and love you’d pen up to a dearest friend, pen up a letter to yourself. Pen up about the stuff in your lifecycle right now that make you happy and the humans in your life journey that bring you kindness, joy, and inspiration. Reflect on how you’re feeling, offer yourself a pep talk if you feel you want one and document your wishes and dreams for the future. If there’s something in your life cycle that you’re struggling with at the moment, see what encouragement and advice you can offer to yourself, celebrate your achievements and sign your letter off with love life. Then pop that letter in the post and enjoy receiving it a certain days later!
7. Shower yourself in feeling-good vibes
We have far more power than we often realised to generate the emotions we need to experience in life cycle, no matter where we are or what’s going on around us. We just have to grasp how to tap into those emotions. An easier manner to do it is to think back to a time in your life journey where you felt full of joy, peace, happiness or fulfilment – whatever it is you need to feel – and then discover a photo of you from that time that really reminds you of what it was like to feel that manner, so much so that you begin to feel that way again just by look up at the photo.
8. Make peace with your insecurities
You are only human and it is alright to question to feel insecure about certain matters. By eliminating the judgement you have towards yourself for not loving every single chunk of you, you actually permit yourself to merely acknowledge the insecurity and move on from it. An insecurity will only become an real obsession if you continue to feed it.
9. Accept that perfection dont exist and accept your “flaws”
We are living in an increasingly image obsessed culture and the concept of perfection do feel unavoidable. Perfection however is a totally abstract concept…it doesn’t truly exist. If you asked so many people to define the ideal woman, you would probably get different definitions of perfection. Additionally, even those “perfect” models you see in magazines don’t look love they do in magazines. They are heavily airbrushed, even after having a team of make spray tanners, artists, personal chefs and personal trainers working together to get them to look the manner they do. So, if humans who have all the help in the nation and are paid to look perfect requirement to be airbrushed, why do we think that “perfection” is achievable or realistic? Once you accept that perfection do not exist you actually offer yourself permission to accept your “flaws” and perhaps you will even grasp to love them, and to appreciate them for the manner they make you beautiful and unique.
10. Discover what is significant to you
Once you grasp to stop attaching your self-worth to the manner that you look, you offer your mind the opportunity to explore the matters that are truly significant to you. So, explore the world, whether virtually or in person, and explore the matters that make your soul sing. These are the matters your mind deserves the opportunity to concentrate on.
11. Progress in ways that support what’s important to you
Once you’ve explored what is truly significant to you, explore it and progress through it. Enroll in a course, connect with a community, or just schedule some “you time” to spend in your own brain exploring your thoughts. These activities will feed your soul, make you truly beautiful and will permit you to fall in love with the humans you are. A person with passion, soul, and the desire to be your best self. A human who is perfectly imperfect, but who is progressing more beautiful each day in the manner that pretty much matter to them.
Self-love isn’t a destination, but rather a pretty ongoing aware choice. Continually check-in with yourself to make certain those old insecurities, or new ones, aren’t morphing into obsessions, remind yourself to accept your flaws, review what is significant to you and explore new manners to support those matters for peace of mind.
