What is self love and why its important. If you want to be truly happy in life, you must take care of your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Also, focusing on self-love is key to finding happiness and its essential to love yourself before you can truly love others.
I chose this article to talk about self love and how it can affect all areas of your life. And, I also tried to relate it to my blogging journey and how dedicating my life solely to one project made me step back and take a look at what I was missing. Also, what was most important in my life and also how unhappy I had become.
Although, I had gotten to the point where I would do nothing outside of blogging but go to work. I was not exercising enough. Not spending time with my family. Nor was I eating the way I should have been. I was just unhappy with my life for a point and needed to do more to start generating that happiness I was missing. With being unhappy, comes negative experiences in your life and or not getting enough of the positives we need to thrive.
What is self love and why its important
Self-love is defined as “love of self” or “regard for one’s own happiness and has been conceptualized both as a basic human necessity. Practicing self-love can be challenging for many of us. It’s not about being self-absorbed or narcissistic, it’s about getting in touch with ourselves, our well-being and our happiness.
Here are some self love practices I believe in and utilized that helped get me back on track.
Reach out to family, friends, healers, whomever you need to help you through the tough times. You are not expected to go through them alone.
Find something to be grateful for every day. It’s inevitable that you are going to have your down days. This is fine and very human of you. Furthermore, it’s especially important on these days to find at least one thing you are grateful for as it helps to shift your mind and energy around what’s going on. This one was not that difficult for me, I pray to my creator on a daily basis thanking Him for just about everything.
What is self love
Be mindful of what you think, feel and want. Live your life in ways that truly reflect this. Starting and maintaining a blog has its own set of challenges. For example, making money from a blog is definitely not the easiest thing in the world to achieve and I found myself doubting and speaking negative. Also, when those negative thoughts crept into my thoughts, I would talk to someone about it which helped tremendously and marched on!
Follow your passion. You know that thing that gets you so excited but scares you at the same time. The thing you really want to do but have convinced yourself it won’t work. You should go do that!
Also, step outside of your comfort zone and try something new. It’s incredible the feeling we get when we realize we have achieved something we didn’t know or think we could do before. I started a blog! That was my achievement. It was not easy for me to step out of my comfort zone and do something I knew nothing about but I did and it was the best decision of my life.
Self Love Goals
Celebrate your wins no matter how big or small. Pat yourself on the back and be proud of what you have achieved. Starting my blogging journey was a win for me and I knew I had a long road ahead of me but I was ready for it!
Stop the comparisons. There is no one on this planet like you, so you cannot fairly compare yourself to someone else. The only person you should compare yourself to is you. Again, I had to stop comparing my blog and its success or lack of with other bloggers. It was hard for me to do that, I sometimes felt my blog should be further along than it was. I had to keep telling myself this is a labor of love!
Surround yourself with people who love and encourage you. Let them remind you just how amazing you are. When I would get down on myself, I have a very dear friend who would listen to me complain but then pick me up where he felt I should be and I am grateful to have him in my life!
Self Love Essentials
Step back and do a reality check! At some point, I had to step back and tell myself something is off. I needed to take some time off and get my life back in order and I did just that! I assessed where my life was headed and made changes.
Final Thoughts
I am relating self love to my blogging journey. This journey began over a year ago and it had gotten to the point where I was not really taking care of my personal needs because of focusing so much on growing my online presence. I lost myself and within that loss, my family suffered also. I suffered as well, I was not taking the time to love on myself and it had started taking a toll on me. Again, I had become really negative with the progress of the blog and within that, the negativity spread to other parts of my life making me not such a good person to be around.
Practice self-love to live a life that truly shines.
Be Blessed…Stay Safe