Content
How to learn to love yourself: why it is important and the first signs of self-destruction
19.08.2024 13:35
For a long time, the idea reigned in society that a person should first think about others and only then about himself.
But psychologists say that the ability to love yourself is not about selfishness and not caring about others. Rather, it is about caring for your own health.
Experts have named the first signs of self-loathing that worsen the quality of life and affect the most precious thing – health.
What does it mean to "love yourself"
Experts characterize self-love as an attentive attitude to the needs of your body and personal well-being.
This has nothing to do with selfishness and dominance over others.
It is rather the right to personal opinion, one's own interests and dignity, as well as the right to equal treatment.
Warning signs
1. Don't ignore your body's needs. This often happens with workaholics who refuse to eat, getting carried away with an important task and not paying attention to hunger, illness or other trials.
2. Do not ignore your opinion, experience, knowledge, intuition. Those who try to justify someone else's cruelty and unfair treatment of others are also mistaken.
3. Don't be afraid to be yourself. By adapting to the opinions of others, a person will one day begin to feel anxious and nervous. He will begin to think that, having learned his true face, people will judge him.
4. Don't slander yourself. Self-criticism should be reasonable, and not turn a person into worthlessness and mediocrity.
5. Don't be afraid to spend money on yourself. When a person needs something essential but constantly puts off buying it, he or she proves to himself or herself that he or she has no right to something that can bring pleasure to him or her first and foremost.
6. Don't allow your personal boundaries to be violated. Otherwise, your life will turn into a period of time for realizing someone else's goals and desires.
7. Don't compare your achievements with others. Success has not only a material value and does not depend on taste and lifestyle.
