Love Yourself First
We all need to show ourselves love every day in order to maintain a balance of our mind, body, and spirit. Once these connections are understood and nurtured, you’ll find a peaceful mindset.
One thing that’s important to remember first and foremost is that you are a valuable person. You have to truly believe that you can love yourself and that you deserve to receive love. Some women will find this to be a difficult hurdle to jump over, but it has to be done in order to make positive steps forward.
Let’s explore your mind, body, and soul:
Your Mind
In order to show love to yourself you need to master your mind. This can prove to be one of the most difficult tasks. Negative thinking tends to creep up in some fashion every day and it’s your job to combat this thinking pattern.
Addictions. These can range from seemingly harmless problems, to severe life disruptions. To start treating yourself right, you need to master your addictions. This might mean controlling what goes into your body or guarding your time spent on television, shopping, or the computer.
Personal Development. You’ll want to discover the power of positive thinking. There are many books and resources that can help you discover the “glass half full” mentality.
Relationships. Your relationships play a large role in how you judge your self-worth. You need to surround yourself with positive people and make the best of all situations.
Your Body
Maintaining a healthy body is just as important as maintaining a healthy mind. When you concentrate on your health, you gain energy, focus, and happiness.
Exercise. If you make a moderate exercise routine a part of your day, it could be enough to maintain a great body image. If you have weight to lose, you may wish to go through a more rigorous routine after talking with a healthcare professional.
Nutrition. Eating a healthy diet will energize you and make you feel great throughout the day. Strive to eat a balanced diet, but don’t feel bad if you slip up every once in a while.
Your Spirit
Your spirit is your life force and where you find your peace and deeper purpose.
Spirituality. Chances are your personal spirituality will address the questions and answers when it comes your soul. Practicing meditation will help strengthen your soul. If you don’t meditate to connect source and your higher self, you can still engage in activities that you find peaceful and meaningful.
Enlightenment. This is often described as a moment of revelation where you discover something about your inner self or about the world and how it works. You could read and write about it endlessly, but you can only continue living your life in order to experience it.
Here is a strategy you can put into practice right now that will help you transition in less than 30 minutes a day.
Every morning when you get up sit somewhere comfy, close your eyes and just breathe. Take some shallow and deep breaths and just give yourself the gift time to just be. Its super important and a great way to start the day. In addition learn to practice this at the end of day as well, just before bed.
So take 15 minutes each morning and evening. You’re worth it!
Anita Fiander is a women’s empowerment expert, speaker and author who helps women gain their freedom to be real…right now! Want to step into your greatness now? Need a speaker for your next women’s leadership event? Looking for a higher level of conscious sobriety?
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Such a great detailed article by Anita! Love it! So many valuable tips, especially about breathing. This is such an important reminder ~ first we have to remember that we are valuable…so important! Thank you so much for sharing this Susan! x
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You are so welcome, Solvita. Yes, I love how Anita included so many valuable tips, especially about breathing. It’s so important! Thank you
From a Bible-centric POV the second greatest commandment is: Love Your Neighbor, AS YOURSELF.
Can’t love anyone, until you learn to love yourself.
Absolutely, Matthew. If we are not filling ourselves up with love, joy, happiness, trust, honor and forgiveness…we can’t expect to be able to give those to others consistently without feeling empty at times. Thank you
Lot’s of misconceptions on the idea of loving self. It isn’t ego or humanism. It’s just good wisdom and health!
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Absolutely, Matthew! I feel the same way about that, thanks!
Very well noted! People forget way too often that we can only give what we have inside, and if we don’t learn to love ourselves and respect ourselves – it is unlikely we can be truly capable of loving and respecting others!
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So true, Leah! It is so vital to be able to give ourselves 1st what we want to give and share in our relationships. Thanks
By far one of the most important and valuable articles I have read! Everything in our lives begins within our self…if we don’t take care of the source (ourselves) we stop the flow of the wonderful things we have to offer those we love and the world around us! Great job, thank-you.
Absolutely, Denny! So very true, it is so vital that we take care of ourselves, we can’t give consistently what we haven’t given ourselves. Thank you.
This article is bang on. Self care is crucial to balancing our lives. It’s amazing how smooth things run when each part of our life has an equal balance, like 4 pumped up tires. If you had just one flat, things would be uncomfortable and bumpy.
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Thank you, Suzanne. I so agree, self love and care is crucial to having a balance in our lives. I love your illustration of that
This is great as always! I need to work on taking care of me again. I tend to get caught up in other people’s lives and my work and not take care of me. I would work 16 hours a day if my husband didn’t come in and fuss at me lol. I do get a great deal of personal joy from my work.. but I will not be healthy keeping those kind of hours.
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Absolutely, Liz. I think most of us entrepreneurs have that challenge at times. It’s all about having balance in all of the 5 areas of our lives. Thank you, sweetie
Great article. i think all these points are very important. I think sometimes the hard part for us is taking the next step in doing.
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Thank you, Tony! Yes, I would agree that sometimes taking the next step to do so can be challenging.
For many it might sound like having to “find” another 15 minutes in the morning and another 15 at night. But if we look at how we spend our time, we undoubtedly have little rituals around getting up and going to bed that could easily be adjusted to fit in the pieces that REALLY feed our souls …
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So true, Sharon. Well said, it is so important to feed our souls. Thank you, I appreciate you
This is an excellent article by Anita! Love the strategy of breathing and just being in the now…great advice!
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Thank you, Sherie. I agree, Anita wrote an excellent article. I am so grateful that she agreed to write a guest post for me.
Easy reading article that highlights all of the main points about getting in touch with yourself. I would only add that before going to sleep, visualize all of your successes and accomplishments you will perform tomorrow.
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I agree Claude about the visualization before going to sleep. I do that and it is Amazing the results that I get by doing so. Thank you
We can only give what we have inside. How true… Excellent article, Anita! Fabulous.. x0x
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I so agree with you, Norma. We have to fill ourselves up with all the goodies, so that we will have even more to give of ourselves with others. Thank you {hugs}
The is a great article from Anita, with spot-on points. It’s not egotism to realize we are valuable and work to maintain ourselves.
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Thank you. I agree, it is not egotism to realize we are valuable and to work on continually ourselves up with love and other wonderful things.
Wonderful article. I struggle in this! I’m an always put others first kind of girl. Learning to take more time for myself to do the things I should be doing for me, and then take care of the troop!
Thank you, Stacy. I think all of us have challenges, at times with taking more time to do those wonderful things for ourselves.
Thank you for sharing this article. I gave the reminder of just being still for a little while in the morning will be a huge benefit.
You’re welcome, Linda. Yes, taking the time to just ‘Be’ in the morning is so powerful! Thanks
Great information. I think people underestimate the power of addiction and the impact it has on relationships. I also think the “types” of addictions are very ignored as well.
Thank you, Sharon. Yes, I think you are absolutely right. I appreciate you stopping by
So true Susan. Gotta love yourself first and if people don’t know where to start there is no test other than begin. I love how it is not just about the body too. Once we learn to love ourselves easier to love others. Or maybe start with love others and then we learn how to do it back to ourselves?
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Thanks, Carol. I believe it is necessary to fill ourselves up continually with love, joy, happiness, honor, trust, and forgiveness then we can go to our relationships and give and share even more
Great post!
These are great tips to us improve us.
By following your advice, it can help put us in a better position to become more valuable to others.
Thanks for sharing
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Mastering your mind so that you can love yourself first is such good advice. We are all valuable and these are great points to help us realize that.
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Excellent article
-Thanks for sharing. I totally agree about the idea of loving oneself first. In fact I tell people that they can only love another to the degree that they love themselves first!
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A great post Anita! Taking care of yourself and your spirit is so important. I love what you say here “give yourself the gift time to just be”. Wonderful!
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Loved this post, Anita-thank you as well, Susan! I love the strategy of just spending time doing deep breathing. It not only helps reduce stress but it makes space to connect with yourself at a much deeper level. Thanks again, ladies!
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