LOVE YOURSELF: Getting started
Before we start this journey i want you to answer some important questions this week.
These questions have to do with how you typically react to yourself and your life when difficulties tend to show themselves. As well as questions that will help you let go of your self-definitions by identifying your interconnectedness. It will give you a chance to see where you are with regards to the concept of self-love and self-criticism or judgement, thus giving us a great starting point from which we can start working from.
Attached:
- -The questionnaire (from the book "Self-Compassion stop beating yourself up and leave your insecurities behind" by Author Kristin Neff).
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When I first answered these questions I realized my lack of self-love and even though I knew it was time to be kind to myself if I were to realize my own self-worth, I even judged myself for realizing how low of a self-esteem I have. However, a long and uncomfortable process I can now finally say I am starting to love myself. Loving myself implies that who I am today is enough. I am who I am. Nothing more and nothing less, and so are you. In saying this I ask you, actually dare you to join me on this journey to a destination of self-love and high self-esteem. If it takes you a couple of weeks, that’s absolutely amazing. However if it takes you months or even years; please don’t judge yourself or give up. This is a process and all I ask is for you to be patient with yourself and most importantly kind. In Miranda Kerr’s book ‘Treasure yourself’ she says
“One of the key ingredients to having self-confidence is accepting and loving yourself; being comfortable In your own skin. Beauty can never simply be restricted to one particular physical type, although it sometimes seems it is. Beauty Is not something tangible that we can grasp and hold onto, it can be one of a million tiny things that push us into the ‘beauty box’. Woman who radiate inner beauty are attractive to every one around them. They are rather someone who embraces what they have been given and they accept and appreciate every part of themselves. I believe that being beautiful is a decision we make, a state of mind and a way of being, as opposed to a particular look or style. Its about knowing that you are worth loving.”
Thus I ask you. Join me. Do the work the next couple of weeks. Make that conscious decision. Take that step. I can promise you, its worth it.
“One of the key ingredients to having self-confidence is accepting and loving yourself; being comfortable In your own skin. Beauty can never simply be restricted to one particular physical type, although it sometimes seems it is. Beauty Is not something tangible that we can grasp and hold onto, it can be one of a million tiny things that push us into the ‘beauty box’. Woman who radiate inner beauty are attractive to every one around them. They are rather someone who embraces what they have been given and they accept and appreciate every part of themselves. I believe that being beautiful is a decision we make, a state of mind and a way of being, as opposed to a particular look or style. Its about knowing that you are worth loving.”
Thus I ask you. Join me. Do the work the next couple of weeks. Make that conscious decision. Take that step. I can promise you, its worth it.