Self-Love is the Way to Go: Here’s How you can Cultivate Self-Love

Do you often feel insulted and become hard on yourself when you notice a flaw or make a mistake? The problem is self-love! Self-love is more than just how good you are about yourself or being assured in what you wear and eat. It involves a deep connection with yourself and how truly you accept yourself as you are! People usually forget to listen to the inner voice and does not pay much heed to how exactly they are treating themselves in the moments of physical and emotional distress. And that’s where the problem started! 

If you belong to the population of ‘bad treatments towards yourself’ then we bring you the importance of self-love and how you can welcome it to enrich yourself with happiness. 

Significance of cultivating self-love

The tendency to desire more and excel in this competitive world entails people to become too hard on themselves all the time. Various studies show that almost 90% of people are rude to themselves and compare their lives with others which impact their inner happiness and self-care. This type of behaviour makes a person not only sick from both inside and outside but also affect its mental health. This can further create a shorter life span, depression, suicidal tendencies, and fibromyalgia (a disorder in which a person has musculoskeletal pain that results in fatigue ness, lack of sleep or mood issues). So, it is important to cultivate self-love that makes you feel your self-worth and make you happy and healthy. 

How to cultivate self-love

Self-love is achieving a state of love and appreciation that supports your physical, psychological and spiritual growth. So, start nurturing yourself with these effective strategies to get you back in touch with your inner self. 

• Treat yourself as you wanted to be treated: Stand in front of the mirror and try to compliment yourself while reciting positive statements and assertions. Repeat this number of times until you achieve a state of positivity. The more you practice this each day, your mindset will get clear and with the time you will start feeling affection towards yourself while trusting your abilities.
• Say hello to healthy boundaries: To cultivate positive attitude and self-love in your life- initiate with setting boundaries that involve saying “no” to such activities that screw you and generate stress or unhappiness and can harm your life. Sometimes taking a break from certain people or commitment gives you time to cut down the things that harm you.
• Forgive yourself: Learn from your past mistakes instead of punishing yourself and view it as a lesson and opportunity for growth and change. Practice self-talk and let go of your past and release all your emotions and negativities and forgive yourself.
• Practice self-care: Stay committed to healthy activities such as having a diet full of nutrients, do regular exercise, get an adequate amount of sleep and do involve in healthy social interactions.

Footnote 

Practising above written self-love tips will definitely help you in building up love towards yourself and it also helps you in coping up with failure and embarrassments in difficult situations. So, stop criticizing yourself and take a resolution to recognize yourself in order to achieve happiness.