3 WAYS TO PRACTICE SELF-ACCEPTANCE

It is easier to say to your friend that they did a fantastic job, that you love them, and that they are more than good enough than it is to say it to yourself.

Why is this something that we struggle with? Being as nice to ourselves and love ourselves as much as we love our best friend can be difficult. What can you do to be better at it? In this article, you will read all about that.

We struggle with accepting ourselves because we think everything has to be perfect like you see on social media. Maybe people wanted you to do something, and you chose a different path. Perhaps you did something you are not proud of.

You are putting so much pressure on yourself. You don’t have to be perfect all the time. Nobody is perfect. People you look up to have been through things as well. They struggled and had to learn how to accept themselves. Even to this day, they are busy with it. You only see a part of other people, their lives. You don’t know what they feel when they are alone.

Accepting yourself is being okay with who you are now. Accepting yourself is something you do before you can love yourself fully. It is about accepting all the negative and positive aspects of yourself.

We all have sides we do not like about ourselves. The most important thing is that you are honest with yourself about them. When you are striving to be perfect, you will never accept yourself fully. There will always be something that you can change or improve. Working on yourself is one of the best things you can do. It all starts with accepting yourself the way you are now.

3 tips to start your journey to self-acceptance right now.

1 :: Get your thoughts on paper.

Writing is an excellent way to get to know your true thoughts. We have so many thoughts per day, we only remember some of them. If you write things down it becomes more clear why you think a certain way about yourself.

Here are some powerful questions to write about:

Am I accepting myself?
How do I feel about myself?
What can I do to accept myself?
What are the things about myself that I don’t accept?
What are the things about myself that I accept?

Choose one question to begin with and get your pen and paper out. Write one question at the top of the page. After that, start writing for about 5 minutes. Just write, let all your thoughts come out. Do not go back to correct yourself. Everything that you wrote down is perfect.

Once you wrote your thoughts on paper, read what you just wrote down. Knowledge is key! If you are aware of the things you don’t accept about yourself and why you don’t accept them, you are more than halfway there.

2 :: Talk to yourself in the mirror.

Look in the mirror; look yourself straight in your eyes.

Say to yourself:
I accept myself for all the things I am
I am good enough
I am beautiful
I love myself

What is powerful as well, is to say something you don’t accept about yourself yet. You can use tip 1 for that. Change it in a positive way. For example, you don’t like that you cry sometimes. Say to yourself in the mirror I accept that I cry sometimes. I am good enough!

If you say this every day out loud to yourself in the mirror, you are going to reprogram your brain. You will start to accept yourself more for who you are at this moment. Do this for at least seven days in a row in the morning and evening. Repeat the same statements 5 times in a row.

3 :: Make a positivity list.

Ask friends and family members who you trust what they like about you. It helps so much if we hear positive things from other people We are so caught up in the negative that it is hard to look at the positive. If you make a list of all the positive things people say, you will have something to read when you don’t accept yourself.

Remember that it is a journey, take your time. You are so worthy of accepting yourself. You got this!