Why Is Loving Yourself So Important? by Brandon Yang Invisible Illness

Carrying a lot of negative emotions like jealousy, disgust, and rage can have a negative impact. We need to learn how to accept not only the emotions that create love, joy, and happiness but also the ones that cause fear, insecurity, and anger in our lives. Looking in the mirror, most of us see a lot of different flaws and remember too many past experiences and failings to love ourselves. The less you love yourself, listen to yourself, and understand yourself, the more confused, upset, and frustrated you will be in life. When you begin to love yourself and continue to love yourself more and more each day, things slowly will be a little bit better in every way possible. Loving yourself provides you with self-confidence, self-worth, and in general, you feel more positive.

Trying taking a moment each day to notice these. Or, start a gratitude journal to keep track of them. Loving kindness meditation is a good way to get more comfortable with feeling love for yourself and others.

Be honest with yourself.This one can be harder than it seems. Some of us as so good at self-deception that we don’t even know we’re doing it. Honesty is key in all relationships and your relationship with yourself is no different. Below, is my list of 22 ways to love yourself.

Firstly, paying attention to how you internally talk to yourself is crucial for learning to cultivate an intimate feeling of self-love. Self-compassion and self-love are largely used interchangeably in specialized literature. Research shows that having more self-compassion builds resilience in the face of adversity, helping people to recover more quickly from trauma or romantic separation. It also helps us to better cope with failure or embarrassment.

So now we know that self-love motivates you to make healthy choices in life. When you hold yourself in high esteem, you're more likely to choose things that nurture your well-being and serve you well. These things may be in the form of eating healthy, exercising or having healthy relationships. We all have tremendous gifts, but many of them go unnoticed. When you’re busy and distracted it’s hard to access these great qualities.

Only YOU can take care of yourself in the ways that you need the most, because you GET yourself! You know yourself better than anyone else can. We don’t Why it’s important to love YOUR SELF always have people giving us the words of affirmation we may crave. After this quick exchange, she turned to leave and then stopped, facing me one more time.

Notice whether you have more energy, or if you are able to be more present with others. You might start to feel like you are more in charge of the choices you make, and that you have more control of your life. A boundary is a protection of sorts; when we establish and enforce a boundary, we protect ourselves. Think of the people in your life about whom you feel protective. You know that part of the reason you work to protect them is that you love them. Protecting ourselves in healthy ways, through selected boundaries, is showing ourselves, love.

Self-love cannot be practiced in a bubble, without the influence of outside comments and potential negativity. Reflect on the effects of practicing self-love. When you spend time loving and rewarding yourself, you will likely see benefits in other areas of your life.

I didn't understood the meaning of self worth not until I was a little older in my teens. I figured that I shouldn’t let other people determine whether I was good enough but instead love myself enough to determine my own worth to others. There are ways in which we can prioritize our happiness and one of which is practicing gratitude. True happiness comes when we actively choose to be optimistic even though the situation we’re in may not be in our favor.