Self Love 💞

What actually is called self love?

Ritu Negi
Be Open
2 min readOct 8, 2023

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Self love is not just doing something for yourself like treating yourself better, patting your own shoulder for appreciation, embracing yourself, being kind towards your own self all the time and it's not just limited to taking care of your physical and emotional well being.

I think…

Self love can be much more than that, it’s not confined in certain terms or definitions.

So coming to the point, If I am able to put this in one word.

1. Self love is acceptance....

Accepting each and every minute thing about yourself.

For example:
Suppose, there is a situation in terms of any kind of relationship. You messed up something. You did something wrong to another person, and this thing could be anything which cannot be accepted morally....

So you can’t go back and change things, you are not able to fix those broken pieces...

So what you can do??? In that situation...

I think...

It’s better to first accept your wrong doing in your own mind…..

Accepting means strongly accepting the fact that you did wrong and it can’t be fixed.

Then what else you can do???

Most importantly, accept your deed, in front of that person, ask for forgiveness.

Then only you can work on yourself in terms of accepting your faults and then starting your journey for your own mental well being. Also taking notes from your own mistakes....

Because, not accepting your faults can also lead to an unhealthy mindset. In the back of the mind, this incident may have a chance to get stuck and definitely it will deflect your future choices and thoughts.

2. Self love is also advocating yourself...

How????

So let me tell you.....

In each and every point of your life...you'll be getting different types of situations created by God.

Right!!!!

And these situations will definitely demand your stand.

It could be anything from deciding your career to making your choices for a particular thing.

You have to just listen clearly to your own inner thoughts screaming loudly into your head....

Segregating what actually is needed for your growth.... without feeling conflicted after knowing another person’s perspective.

Advocate yourself. Presenting your choice strongly is also self love.

So there is a lesson that somebody has taught me throughout these years, that you can't make sure to keep everybody happy by your actions. So first focus on yourself, analyse if you are doing right with yourself or not...

And I think by doing this...eventually the law of attraction will work. If you are able to love yourself truly but not blindly then automatically everybody will love you back.....

So accepting your negatives and turning them into your brownie points is actual self love.
So keep working on yourself......

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Ritu Negi
Be Open

Presenting my perspective about mentalism and Biomedical Sciences.