Self-Love

On my previous article entitled "5 ways on How to Live a Meaningful Life", the first thing I wrote in that list is loving yourself or self-love. On that article, I define self-love as one of the most important aspects of valuing your life. If you haven't read my previous article, consider reading it, it will make you reflect in your life and will help you on how you should live your life in a meaningful way.

Today, I want to talk about self-love and the things that shows different ways on how we should love ourselves.

Let's get started!

Have you heard about self-love? If not, let me define what it is. Self-love in general definition is a high regard to one's own well-being and happiness. This means that self-love, to put simply is loving yourself. This refers to taking care of yourself and not letting yourself in a negative vibes. You might think that self-love is easy to do, well I'll say it to you that it is not as easy as you think. There are factors that make it hard to love yourself. These factors are your insecurities, low self-esteem, personal problems and etc. With these factors, it makes self-love harder to do but I'm not saying that it is impossible to achieve. There are also ways on how to make you love yourself and ways on dealing with those factors mentioned. To give you some of the ways how to love yourself, here's five ways on how to do it.

Five Ways on How to Love Yourself

1. Eat healthy foods

Yes, you are right. Eating healthy food is one way of showing on how to love yourself. If you love yourself, of course you should understand that you need to maintain your well-being in a healthy state. Don't forget that self-love also means taking care of yourself. Loving yourself starts on how you take good care of your body.

2. Have Confidence

Being confident to everything you do means you have trust in yourself. Love and trust are interconnected with each other. Being confident is accepting your body and mind, and believing to your capability to do something. Confidence can help you build better relationships with other people and can help you live in this world without doubts and regrets.

3. Never Compare yourself to others

Never compare yourself with anyone in this world. Don't see anyone as your competition. Every person is different in their own way. You don't have the same dreams, ambitions, perspective and mindset. If you need a reference for you to be a better person, it should be your old self. Make yourself better today by comparing yourself what you were yesterday. When you begin to compare yourself to others, you are starting to not love yourself because you see the personality of the person you're comparing to as better than you and you start to not accept who you really are.

4. Always Forgive Yourself

Forgiving yourself is important in your own well-being and mental state. Forgiveness is letting go of the feelings of anger, resentment and guilt that has built in your mind after you made a mistake or someone made a mistake to you. If you made a mistake, don't let yourself be covered in guilt instead accept those mistakes you've made and learn from it. If you learned how to forgive yourself, it will reduce your vulnerability to anxiety, stress and depression.

5. Have fun

Don't forget to always have fun. Have fun and enjoy your life with your family and friends. This will help you to socialize to people and interact with them. By having fun with other people, you are letting yourself be surrounded by positive people. Don't let yourself be stressed out of work, have fun if you have the time for it helps reduce stress and help build your motivation in life.

These are only five ways on how to love yourself. There are more ways on how to love yourself. If you know more ways, feel free to share to the comment section below. Thank you!

How's my article, do you learn something. I hope you like it.