How to Start Loving Yourself Today

If you can learn to love yourself, you will see such a difference in your world.

Start loving yourself today and you will see a better and brighter tomorrow...

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. 
    
   Find the Lion inside yourself

   Take a moment to just reflect on your qualities. Stand in front of a mirror and take a long hard look. Remember, it is easy to see the flaws, so look beyond them and embrace the you that is hiding from the world.

2. 
    
   Write down things you like about yourself

   Take a timeout whenever you start thinking negative thoughts about yourself...This is the perfect time to write down things you like about yourself or if someone has given you a compliment during the day, write that down. It doesn't matter how big or how small, just make it positive.
   
   Before you go to sleep that night, pull out your list and say these positive things out loud while you are looking at yourself in a mirror...say them and most of all...believe them!

3. Don't believe what you see in a magazine or on t.v. When someone has to be taped into an outfit or airbrushed into perfection, then they are not perfect.
   
   If we weren't suppose to wrinkle, then we wouldn't wrinkle. If you are the only person that ever got acne, then why are the shelves filled with acne creams.
   
   Start loving every little wrinkle or pimple you have...All those little things will add up and you will soon see what the big picture is...all those little things, rolled up together equals...you...Love them...Love yourself.

4. 
    
   Make a date...with yourself

   Why not make a date...with yourself? And don't stand yourself up! Go out and do what you want to do...
   
   Go to the library, go to a greenhouse, go get ice cream, go buy yourself flowers or whatever it is that you want to do on your date with yourself. Once you find what you enjoy, you will be able to love yourself much easier.

Tips & Warnings

• Whatever Higher Being you believe in, know that they would not have created you if they did not love you, so why wouldn't you love yourself out of respect to him/her/them.

[tammiemozelle]

on 9/20/2009 great article

[godfather25]

on 7/3/2009 We all should love ourselves. It starts there. Thank you for this article. It's good one to read when we're all feeling down.

[FrazzledNanny]

on 5/19/2009 Another great article. Loving yourself sets the whole tone of your life. Well written article. 5*

[athome]

on 5/15/2009 Refection and loving ourselves is a great thing, thanks 5*

[lijandra]

on 5/13/2009 Nice article on loving yourself. I like the lion inside yourself part. :-)