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Why is it important to love yourself ?

“When things change inside you, things change around you.”

By Talat YusufPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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What’s inspire you?

The thoughts you think, the words you use, the feelings you feel, and the core values and beliefs you live. The more information we have on diet, exercise, and weight loss, the higher the rates of body dissatisfaction and life dissatisfaction we have than ever before in history.

One of the first and most basic fundamental needs that we have as humans is a connection through love, a bond.

  1. When will it be that we stop justifying, people-pleasing, looking outside ourselves for validation about our worth that we know comes from within?

Maybe if we felt that true depth of worth and love for ourselves, we wouldn’t constantly be compared to everyone else, looking at others and feeling that if they succeed, that means I must fail. If they’re good, I must be bad. This natural scarcity and this feeling of competition with all those around us. I know it’s possible for us to look in the mirror and see true beauty, see love, with kindness, compassion, empathy, and true magnanimous love. Magnanimous is deeper than unconditional love. It goes to the depths that include compassion and kindness-true depth. Diets don’t work. Love does. Negative emotions cause nervous system chaos, while positive emotions bring the nervous system into alignment. We make better choices for our lives and for our health when we come from a positive emotional space. And we feel it right here.

Did you know we have on average 70,000 thoughts in a single day and 98% of those thoughts are repeats from yesterday and about 80% of them are negative towards ourselves or somebody else?

Positive emotions actually strengthen the integrity of our hearts, and our arteries. We can literally harden our own arteries of our hearts through negative emotions.

I want to tell you about a study done with chocolate cake. They had two groups, and they asked them how they felt about eating chocolate cake. They divided them into two groups after that. One group was the unhappy group. The 2nd group that ate the chocolate cake did so in celebration and fun. That was their mindset. What they found when they later tested was that the guilty group was significantly higher in the stress hormone cortisol, which we all know is a sign that you are way stressed out, if your cortisol is shooting through the roof. Now not only is the guilty group feeling negative emotions and feeling more stressed, but in fact, in the longer term, those guilty folks had a harder time losing weight. Guilt is also not a positively adaptive emotion. There is no cheating, just choosing.

Choose the foods you eat. Don’t use them, but choose them consciously. But not from your mind, where you are thinking, is this part of my diet? The positive emotions of the heart, remembering a time when you felt true deep love. This is where the magic is. It starts from the heart. It moves into the core, where you trust that the beliefs and the values that you live by are worthy. All we want is a connection. We want love. We want to feel loved and connected to people, not because of how we look, but of who we are on the inside. We want to connect with amazing people, high-vibe people.

Here are 3 tips for self-love

First tip: Positive self-talk only. Under no circumstances do you deserve to be berated for the fact that you ate a piece of cake or you did anything. You don’t deserve it, most especially not from yourself. Make a pact.

Number two: Remember that 98% of your thoughts that you repeated from yesterday. Let’s ditch them. You could find 68,000 things in a day that are for sure going to positively impact your life and inspire you much more than those negative thoughts.

And third: Take time every single day to breathe. Breathe into that heart space and feel the love. Positive emotions will keep your heart strong. Breathe into your core. Understand how it works. Get deeper than the superficial. There’s always more than meets the eye.

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