Love help: How does one go about loving themselves? - Help.com

It’s about making decisions that nuture your soul. It’s about accepting yourself for who you are. It’s about knowing it is ok to make mistakes, as long as you try to learn from them. Most importantly it is about being your own best friend!

Around the time I first came to the Help.com website I posted this. You might like it:

http://help.com/post/82755-this-is-ha…

To love yourself? Hmm… well for me it means to discover just what you are capable of. To prove to yourself you can do things you didn’t think you could and then to take your positive experiences and hopefully help someone else achieve or prove those things to themself.

I agree with ames!

I agree with Maximina :)! :)

Feel good about yourself but not so that you become arrogant or insensitive
Be able to accept criticism from other people that is constructive and true and to ignore criticism that is harmful and destructive
Have self respect–not going round doing all sorts of terrible things to yourself like taking drugs or overdrinking
Being able to get up after making mistakes and learning from them

that’s how far i got… just make sure you know that you are a wonderful person and that you will always have us on help.com to help you when you need any

i agree with both maximina and ames!!

I feel left out! *pout* LOL

I agree with Cutes and Stars too!:)

Oooo and stars!!! I had to go read your link to be sure… but of course!

oh… i’m so sorry!!

i agree with you too!
how r you doing? stars?

Yay! and I agree with you all! hehe

I loved that poem Stars!

And I like what cutes says about “self respect”! Yay! So important!

I have to admit though lovig yourself is easier said than done!

That is something that each person has to deal with on a day to day basis.

I used to dispise almost everything about myself. One day I realized that I was only causing myself pain. Others didn’t even see what I saw in myself.

Begin with the things you DO like about yourself. If it is image, what is one part of your body that you like? Mine was my ears. They were normal sized I liked that. I also liked the musculature of my legs. Many people have to work out like crazy to get the cuts that I naturaly have. That built into my ideals. What did I like about the person I am? I liked that I have a moral standard. I like being a good person and being kind. I got compliments for that. I then liked that other people thought I was very compassionate and smart, even though I didn’t think so.

Then what lacked was my goals. I listened less to what people thought I should do and more to what I though was right to do. That helped in what I chose to do with my life.

I heard someone say to give positive affirmation to yourself in the mirror. No matter how dorky you feel, say things that you are proud of yourself for. Dance, sing, make funny faces.. anything that makes you happy. Then say I am a good person and I love me. Over time you will start believing it. Stranged cuz this worked for me.

Just vow to yourself that no matter what you will ALWAYS keep trying. AND that you are worth more than anyone will ever know.

Give it a try, and I pray that you will learn to love yourself no matter how you go about it.

Very nice Rcky!

RckyMtnCoastie wrote:
I heard someone say to give positive affirmation to yourself in the mirror. No matter how dorky you feel, say things that you are proud of yourself for. Dance, sing, make funny faces.. anything that makes you happy. Then say I am a good person and I love me. Over time you will start believing it. Stranged cuz this worked for me.

I also have done this and yes, it worked for me too. I felt totally stupid and kept thinking of the Stewart Smally character on Saturday Night Live, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it people like me!” but it is true that if you tell yourself positive things then you will being to believe them. It is about quieting the negative voice and giving a louder voice to the positive.

The key is to love dorkiness. I used to think that dorks never were liked. Then I realized that when you are a dork, you don’t care anyway.

To love yourself is the highway to happiness, “Divine Arogance” is the solution.

to love yourself would also mean making use of your strengths,control your thoughts and do what you are capable of to follow your dreams.

It means to forgive

Every morning when you get up you tell yourself that you are happy that you opened your eyes and that today is a new day. It doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside it’s what is inside of every person that counts. To love yourself just means that you feel that you have the right to be here and that you respect yourself. When that comes across to other people they will be drawn to you. Self-esteem is a issue that everyone faces at some point in their life. Hold your head up and tell yourself in a mirror that your hair looks great today or your make-up looks good and every day that you do that the love for yourself will be automatic.

to love yourself is accepting u for who u are to set goals that you want to achive and strive to do so not to let any one cloud your mind on what you want and to be happy with the choices you made only you can make yourself happy

Loving yourself. Get yourself over-confident with yourself. Tell your-self you are “beautiful/handsome” everyday when you look in the mirror. Or write yourself a sticky note and put it on the mirror. “YOU RULE!” or “YOU ARE HOT AND YOU KNOW IT!” lol. Stop looking at your imperfections and look at all the things you love about yourself. Surely God has given you a gift, some sort of talent that you can be proud of.

:)

Hope you started loving yourself by now. :)