Consider the ways you care for yourself when things are going well (such as exercising, being with friends, listening to music). Do your best to incorporate some of these ways into your life during difficult times.
How to be kind to yourself, or not, is something you probably learned during childhood. It may include self-care, mindfulness, challenging negative self-talk, and surrounding yourself with positive people.
Be Good To Yourself
Self-confidence is about trusting yourself and your abilities. For example, you can be confident in one area, such as cooking, dancing, or communicating, but then insecure in another, such as dancing or public speaking.
Instead of loving yourself, focus on being someone who loves. That is, allow love to flow through you as often as possible. Focus on what you love about the people you meet. Focus on what you appreciate while going to the store, sitting in a meeting, or while speaking to someone. Simply, adjust your body to positive emotions by finding as many things to love and appreciate as possible.
You understand that you have to be honest with yourself before you can be honest with anyone else. This means you make space in your life to connect with yourself, perhaps through meditation, journaling, or time in nature.
Even if you meet that unattainable standard, you will always be unsatisfied because you need more since it is in our human nature always to be insatiably curious. Avoid comparing yourself to that unattainable ideal; doing so will make you feel bad about yourself and depressed. Remember, the more we compare, the more we lose ourselves.
Make a list of your best traits and accomplishments the next time you feel joyous and in control of the universe. While it might sound a little cheesy, it can be a great reminder when you are having a less-than-stellar day. Although it may be challenging initially, developing this habit can help you learn to accept yourself.
No matter how big or small, acknowledge your victories. Be happy with your accomplishments and pat yourself on the back. This is a wonderful method to love and be pleased with oneself. Celebrating achievements in your life might help you stay motivated.
What is the one area where you feel completely at ease, at peace, happy, optimistic, and full of life? When going through a difficult period, visit that location or visualize yourself there. Consider the way something looks, feels, and smells. Make it a habit to regularly envision your happy location.
Grab a cup of your preferred tea, coffee, wine, or other beverage, and sit by yourself for a while. Just you, no TV or other distractions. Consider the amazing things now taking place in your life, your greatest aspirations, and the best ways to achieve them.
You can improve your relationship by learning to love yourself and practicing self-love. This is essential if you want to develop a strong connection with other people. Although it takes time to develop self-love, you will undoubtedly get better at it.
We, as humans, often find ourselves making the effort to take care of others, like our children, spouse, friends, parents, grandparents, and so on. Yet we rarely take the time to be good to ourselves. Taking care of ourselves is essential to living a long, happy, and healthy life. There are many things, big and small, that we can do for ourselves on a regular basis to relax, recharge, reflect, and reevaluate.
We're often so much harder on ourselves than we are on anyone else. We judge ourselves harshly, dwell on our failures and perceived shortcomings, compare ourselves unfavorably to others, and sometimes even tell ourselves that we aren't worthy of love or happiness. This meditation teaches you to counter those negative voices in your head with self-compassion and to remind yourself that you deserve kindness.
Imagine for a moment the amount of energy you expend brooding over the future, ruminating about the past, comparing yourself to others, judging yourself, worrying about what might happen next. That is a huge amount of energy. Now imagine all of that energy gathered in and returned to you. Underlying our usual patterns of self-preoccupation, stinging self-judgment, and fear is the universal, innate potential for love and awareness.
(gentle music)- Talk to yourself like you wouldsomebody you really care about.Similarly, turn that to look into yourselfand speak to yourselfin the way you would speak to others.The practice of gratitude.We often find that people who are thankfulfor things around them are much happierand have a greater sense of wellbeing overall.Simply on waking up,think about two or three thingsthat you are really grateful that day.And by practicing gratitude regularly,you'll often find that in the long termyour wellbeing and sense of hopefulness increases too.Performing acts of kindness during the day to help others.It may be as simple as opening a door for somebody,letting somebody go in front of you in a supermarket queue,maybe even giving you some of your loose change.It can be a very small gesture, but quite often performing an act of kindnesscan make you feel really good and boost your own wellbeing.The daily reflection.Every day, try and make some time for yourself. By taking some time to reflect,we often find that people are able to processwhat is going on around them much betterand the longterm.This can lead to a greater sense of wellbeing and calm.To consider your self-care routines and rituals.These will include simple thingslike having breakfast every morning,carving out time in your day to have lunch.But also more global thingssuch as making sure you eat a healthy and balanced diet,making sure you make regular time for physical activityand also making time for things you enjoy.Kindness to yourselfalso comes with a sense of responsibility too.Some people will often thinkit's been a really busy and hard day at workand so I'm gonna have an extra drink of alcoholor an extra few squaresof the chocolate bar to treat myself.And while the occasional treatsand rewards can be uplifting,remember overall regularly overindulgentcan actually sabotage all the efforts you have madeto look after yourself.And so remember with self-compassionalso comes self-respect and also self-control.Consider making time for activitiesthat are in line with what really interests you.If you have a creative streak,make time for your creative outlet.If you have a need to be outdoorsand take part in physical activities such as sports,make time for these too.Consider investing some timein mindfulness as a practiceto bring about overall calm and wellbeing.Mindfulness is a way of thinkingand rooting your thinking in the current or in the present.You can mindfully eat a meal.You can mindfully brush your teeth.You may even mindfully choose to go for a walk.And what mindfulness encourages you to dois focus on the here and now.I would encourage you to consider some time with nature.This may be as simple as walking through a park,walking by the river.We know that being with natureand particularly being free of an urban environmentcan really help people focus on their wellbeing.We are currently in the throes of a global pandemic.This is understandably a timeincurring much anxiety and stress for many people.And so what I would encourage you to do,is think of this also as a timewhere there are opportunities to pause, reflect,and possibly even reset as well.(soft music) 2ff7e9595c
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