Day 2 of #31shadesofprettyme
Let’s talk about the second W. “Why is self love important?”
Tell me something – does it feel great when someone admires you for something or your coworker praises you for your work? How does it feel when a friend tells you that you’re the best friend she/he ever had or when someone close to you unexpectedly says “I love you”? Butterflies in the stomach, right?
This blog is written as a part of my Instagram campaign “31 Shades of Pretty Me”
Read about the First W of Self-Love
The sense of ‘feeling significant in someone’s life’ or ‘I matter to someone’ is such a fantastic feeling. It feels great to be important in someone’s life. To matter in someone’s life is a big deal.
Next, tell me how do you feel when the other person doesn’t reciprocate your feelings in a similar way? You love someone unconditionally but you don’t experience the same unconditional love, how would you feel?
Dejected, right? It’ll upset you to great lengths.
You feel dejected and unconfident because your happiness lies in being accepted by others. You are emotionally vulnerable to hurt and deceit by looking for acceptance and validation by the people around you and society at large.
Why should you love yourself?
In today’s’ world when people are constantly judgemental, it’s so important to love one’s self. Self-love is not narcissism or shelling yourself from the world or having a huge ego that won’t let others accommodate with you.
Self-love means becoming comfortable with who you are and accepting your imperfections. Self-love also doesn’t mean that you cut yourself from the world and be on your own.
Self-love helps you in understanding that waiting and wanting the attention of people around you is not going to make you whole. Self-love is important because it also makes you recognise that you have the ability to accept yourself, love yourself and feel complete from within.
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Accept and admire yourself wholeheartedly. You have the power to change how you feel from within without getting influenced by the external factors.
Self-love Exercise: Sit at a silent place. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. After a few seconds say – I accept myself the way I am. I am complete. I am happy. I am whole. I am important.
Say these lines a couple of times or until your mind relaxes.
If you do this, let me know how you felt? I would love to know. Love yourself. Because you do.
This blog is the second in the series of 6 blogs based on the topic of self-love.
“31 Shades Of Pretty Me” is a 31-day transformation program founded by myself to make women fall in love with themselves (all over again). What I started as a hashtag campaign on my Instagram has turned into my passion. It’s a step-by-step program that helps women realise the importance of loving themselves. Through self-love exercises, affirmations and tasks, this program aims to take women on a journey of self-acceptance, self-love and self-admiration.
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