How to love yourself – 30 ways to love yourself

To love this world, you first need to love yourself first. And When you adopt the concept of self-love, your life changes eventually. But do you know how to love yourself? if not here we discuss 30 ways that help you to love yourself.

Self-love is like having the key to happiness in your hand. Self-love may be hard but it is one of the most important things that you need in life right now. We practice self-love so we can push through our limiting beliefs and live a life that truly shines.

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Without wasting our time let’s start our journey to love ourselves.

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1. Start your day with a positive note

Love yourself: Love your morning( the first 30 minutes of the day is most important)

The first thing that you need to do to love yourself that to start your day with positive vibes. Start your day with positive affirmation, say something special to yourself when you start your day. Thank God for this precious morning and say to yourself that it will be going a special day for me.

Drink plenty of water in the morning, Meditate for 10-15 minutes and give at least 10 minutes to the thing that you enjoy the most (it may be singing, dancing, walking on grass, or your favorite music)

The first 30 minutes of your day is the most important time of the day, do not do unproductive things during that time. And if you have a good start to your day then there are plenty of chances of your day will go well.

2. Skip the usage of mobile in the bed

Love yourself: Love your productivity( it is bad to use the phone in bed)

I love this magical device but truly it is bad to use the mobile phone in bed.

If you really want to love yourself, then definitely you love your sleep and your daily performance but if you use the mobile phone in bed then it may hurt your sleep as well as your day productivity.

If you use your mobile at night just before sleeping then it affects your sleep and if you take your mobile in your hand as you wake up then it will going tough for you to start your day on positive notes because the first 30 minutes of the day is most important.

The time before sleeping is the second most important time of the day after the first 30 minutes of the day, try to do the thing that gives you inner peace during that time.

3. Take care of your sleep

Love yourself: Love your sleep(satisfy with your sleep)

For better performance at work, you need to sleep well at night. Your day performance directly depends on the quality and quantity of your life.

Manage your sleeping schedule between 6-8 hours daily and don’t compromise it just for Netflix. Your sleep is much more precious than the subscription value of a Netflix account.

It will be pretty satisfying when you wake up in the morning after a good sleep. Don’t forget that proper sleep is the need for a good day.

Read how to sleep well

4. Take care of your health

Love yourself: Love your health( self-care is essential to self-love)

You couldn’t enjoy anything(love, success, or achievement) if you don’t have good health. Good health is key to happiness.

Take care of your physical, mental, and emotional health. Give a proper time to do a workout because it is the way to show how much you love your body, muscles, and body shape by working out daily.

Give some time to take care of your mental health, you could do it by reading good books and meditating daily. Attain a level of the mental piece which is pretty essential to love yourself.

Fill your body with good food and nutrition and your mind with positive thoughts.

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5. Know yourself

Love yourself: Love your passion( spend some time with you)

How you could love yourself if you don’t know what you are and what you like about yourself. Know everything about yourself.

Know your passion, hobby, good or bad things about yourself. Try to spend time with yourself and get to know yourself better.

Write a daily journal about your journey, the more you know about yourself, the more you can do for yourself.

Don’t forget to spend some quality time with yourself because the best investment of your life is to invest in yourself. Invest your time to find true yourself.

6. Accept yourself

Love yourself: Love your past( Accept yourself as the way you are)

You can’t run away from yourself. To win any battle in life you first need to win yourself.

The secret of self-love is that first, you need to accept your imperfection as you accept your perfection. Good or bad that happens in your life accept that shit and move on for a better life.

Your flaws are important as well as your qualities because your flaws are something that highlights your qualities. Accept that you are perfect the way you are.

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7. Live in a positive environment

Love yourself: Love your surrounding( surround yourself with the people who lift you)

Be with the people who support you in your bad time and bring you the best from you. Surround yourself with people that have positive vibes.

If you think that someone is trying to put you down or take your mental peace away, make a distance from them. Give permission to yourself to move on from the person that didn’t give you positive vibes.. You just don’t need to live in an environment that is bad for you.

Surround yourself with the people who believe in you, and show them how special you are.

8. Remove toxic relations

Love yourself: Love your peace( Say goodbye to bad relations)

Why do you need the people who take your mental peace away, why do you live in a relationship that didn’t help you in your bad time?

Be selfish, when you think that a relationship is not worthy for you and your life, and bring negativity to you then give up on those toxic relationships.

It will be better to end a relationship if you find more reason to fight instead of smile. You just do not need to hold it. Any toxic person didn’t deserve a place in your beautiful life.

Read Know about toxic relationships

9. Break your bad habit

Love yourself: Leave bad habits (your bad habits will going to break you)

Bad habits will have a bad effect on you. In order to love yourself, you couldn’t engage in an activity that has a bad effect on you. Peoples think that bad habits(like smoking and drinking) give you pleasure in life and they are a mode of fun. But in the long run, they have a bad effect on your life.

If you truly want to love yourself then you need to give up the bad habits that you have, you don’t need the things in life that degrade your level of thinking.

and making a distance from the bad habits is one of the best ways to love yourself, the distance from the bad habit is proof that how you love yourself.

Read how to give up a bad habit

10. Stop comparing

Love yourself: Love your competitors (comparing let you feel down)

Comparison is the root of many problems and if you compare yourself to others, then it will be disrespectful to your efforts, yourself, and the person with whom you compare yourself.

Comparison is the thief of joy and we recommend to stop comparing yourself to others. if you are happy and enjoying your day then the easiest way to be sad is to compare yourself to others.

You compare yourself to others when you feel a lack of something in you but believe me everyone does not have everything.

It is hard to stop comparing yourself to others but you need to remember that everyone is unique and has unique ability and talent.

Read how to stop comparing

11. Live without limits

Love yourself: Love your growth zone(Leave your comfort zone)

Self-love doesn’t mean that you need to pamper yourself, it is all about living a more happy and satisfying life.

You need to jump out of the comfort zone and enter into growth, and when you run after breaking your boundaries then it will be the most beautiful experience. You start to treat every challenge like an opportunity.

The growth zone phase is one of the most beautiful places to live in. It is genuine that you want the growth of the person that you love and this time that person is you.

Read how to step out of your comfort zone

12. Work with care

Love yourself: Love your breaks(take a proper break)

Don’t put an extra load on yourself, if you need to work for a long time then you need to take care of yourself. You need to take a time break just to calm your mind and body.

A small break will help you to think from a more clear perspective. Research shows that taking a proper break helps you to find the solution to the problem more efficiently.

Taking a break at regular intervals will help you to stay more focused and make you more productive. A small break is the needed part of your hustle.

13. Be kind to everyone

Love yourself: Love everyone(Treat everyone with love + yourself)

Being kind doesn’t only benefit other people, It helps us, too. Studies show that helping others boosts serotonin, a neurotransmitter that makes us feel satisfied.

How you treat others helps you to gain respect for yourself and result you will treat yourself in a better way. Treat others with love and respect. it makes you feel great about yourself and also be kinder to yourself, stop criticizing yourself and be with yourself.

Pay a favor to a needy one without any reason.

14. Learn to say no

Love yourself: Love to say no(you don’t need to say yes to everything)

I found a lot of people who are not comfortable saying no to anyone and result they engage in an activity that didn’t matter to them.

Not every time you need to say yes to every task. You don’t need to pay attention to the thing that didn’t matter to you.

Saying no to certain things means that you value your time, energy, and body more than a certain task. it helps you to create healthy boundaries with yourself. Saying no to a non-worthy task doesn’t make you selfish, it will be better to save your time and energy by avoiding the things that are not for you.

15. Make yourself a priority

Love yourself: Love your needs(you are the most precious to yourself)

Taking care of your health, personal needs, or diet before anyone else didn’t make you selfish. The reality is that it is the need of your body.

Take care of yourself first and then you could take care of others. Remind your worth to yourself, remind what you achieve or what you can do if you use your resources.

We believe that we all have limitless power, just we need to use that enormous power for ourselves and that can be possible to make ourselves a priority.

Making a priority to yourself helps you strengthen in each aspect of life.

16. Make time for fun

Love yourself: Love your smile(create happiness)

You need to be happy because nothing in your life is worth it if you don’t happy.

Happiness is not a ready-made thing, you have to create it yourself. Maybe you have the busiest daily routine but you have to make time to be happy.

Add some time to your daily schedule when you laugh without caring for others. Do your favorite activity, talk with your favorite person, see your favorite tv show, or whatever makes you happy.

You need to make sure to do something that brings a smile to your face.

Read how to make yourself happy

17. Let Nature love you

love yourself: Love nature( Let nature heals you )

Nature is the biggest lover and doesn’t ever underestimate the power of healing nature. Sun heals with sunshine(New hopes), the moon heals and soothes the body(relieves anxiety and stress), clouds and water heal you(refresh your mood), and even every tiny thing of nature helps you.

Being in nature, help you to get rid of anger, and stress and make your mood pleasant. Sit in nature help you not just emotionally but physically and mentally.

Take the fresh air, view sunrise or sunset, dance if you can while raining, go riverside, and just try to explore the beauty of nature. This experience will fill you with pleasure inside.

18. You don’t need a better past for a great life

Love yourself: Love your present( Be in the present)

Thinking about the past didn’t change your life and regretting it doesn’t change the result. it just puts an extra burden on you.

It is not necessary that every successful or happy person have a good past. You could start anywhere and anytime with whatever you have.

Don’t let your past take control of your present. Forget what good or bad happen in your past and start enjoying the moment. Be truly present in present.

19. Be honest to yourself

Love yourself: Love your honesty( Don’t cheat yourself)

No one engages in bad habits overnight, they first cheat themselves occasionally and then become habitual to it.

Honesty is the key to all relationships and your relationship with yourself has no different. You can’t love yourself if you don’t like yourself or your habits. (No one likes a cheater)

Acknowledge all good and bad feelings of your, be sincere in your reactions, avoid overthinking, and stop playing the blame game. Be honest to yourself to the level that you can trust intrinsic.

20. Quit the things that you hate

Love yourself: Love your time and energy( Why engage in the activity that you hate)

Why do you invest time and energy in the things that you don’t love?

You should only invest your precious time in things that you love. Give up the things, relationships, jobs, or habits that are not working for you.

You don’t need to finish every book that you read, if you don’t love the process, then it will be better to give up and find a new alternative to it.

Ask yourself some questions before quitting: why do you engage in this, why do you want to quit, and is it worth quitting. I ask these questions myself when I quit the last job that I don’t love.

21. Explore your freedom

Love yourself: Love your freedom (Don’t wait for anyone’s approval)

You don’t need the approval of anyone to live your life and, love your life. The only approval you need to live your best life is of only you.

If you waiting for someone’s approval to do something then you may be going to miss your best opportunity. Don’t let the views of others affect your happy life.

If they are not happy even with God, then who the hell you are in front of the superpower.

“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”

 — Dita Von Teese

22. Visit your happy place

Love yourself: Love your happy place(Get connected to your best person)

We all have a place where we feel most comfortable, at ease, calm, happy, positive, free, and high in life it may be in your room, beach, garden, or your friend’s house.

Try to spend your time in your happy place, especially in your hard time. or if you can’t go there then try to imagine yourself there. Recall the places that appreciate you and give you positive vibes.

Call your best friend, lover, sibling, parent, or close ones when you needed. They may be your happy person.

23. Compliment you

Love yourself: Love yourself in front of the mirror(say positive affirmations to yourself)

Why wait for anyone to notice your worth, just look at you how precious you are.

Compliment you every time when you are in front of the mirror, compliment you every time when you needed.

Let the positive vibes running through your body. Say yourself by name, say that you are beautiful, you are special, you are confident and you deserve happiness in life. You are strong and you have the potential to achieve your life goal

Positive affirmations help you to improve self-esteem, cope with depression and anxiety, and they have a great positive impact on your mental health. Start your day by saying ‘thank you god for this beautiful morning’.

24. Treat yourself to your favorite food

Love yourself: Love your favorite food (Feed with your favorite food)

Food is directly related to satisfaction, and if a certain food makes you happy or satisfied then it will be a bad idea to turn it from your plate every time.

Be kind to yourself, give a break to your calorie tracker sometime and eat your favorite food just to satisfy yourself and give a treat to your taste buds.

Enjoy your favorite food one bite at a time, and feel every ingredient and flavor of your food.

25. Forgive yourself

Love yourself: Love to forgive yourself (Forgive and restart)

Forgiveness is the need for your mental peace, wellbeing, and healthier relationship with yourself. Forgiveness is the first step to moving on.

If you ever feel that you struct in a bad phase then stop regretting and forgive yourself for all mistakes that you have done till now. Regret doesn’t take you anywhere or make any change in your result, forgiving yourself and moving on is the only option that you have.

Don’t feel shy to start again, every day is a new beginning and you could start over again by forgiving yourself.

Read how to restart life

26. Give time to your favorite hobby

Love yourself: Love your hobbies(Recall what you love to do)

There are no right ways to get creative. Get creative and express yourself in whatever way you like. Hobbies are not just a mode of fun they have a huge impact on your day-to-day productivity and especially on your mental health.

Painting, writing, taking photos, sculpting, dancing, music, or driving whatever takes your fancy, make sure to make time for it. Make sure to live a life without filters where you don’t need to act according to society. Leave your inner critic outside the door and engage in the activity that you love the most.

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27. Declutter all negative thought

Love yourself: Love your optimism (be more positive and optimistic)

Why live this beautiful life with negative things. We all have limitless power and why make boundaries for ourselves. and if you want to fill your mind with positivity then first you need to remove the toxicity that you have.

Skip the thought that you can’t do it or you are not worthy enough or you are not beautiful or you are not talented enough to be a winner.

Eliminate all these shitty thoughts from today and replace them with positivity. We could achieve anything that we truly want.

Read how to avoid negativity

28. Take a long bath

Love yourself: Love water parks (Let the water wash out your stress and anxiety)

A shower can wash out your daily stress, anxiety, and fatigue, take a long shower at night, especially after a heavy day.

Feel your senses that how water clears your dirt. Research shows that taking a warm shower can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. The body’s reaction to being warm naturally relaxes your muscles and thoughts.

Try to visit a natural and quiet water body at least once a month if possible.

29. Take a break from social media

Love yourself: Love your privacy( pause social media)

If you find yourself frustrated every time when you use social media or scroll too much on Instagram, then it will be better to take a break from social media.

You don’t need to be social if you find yourself disturbed, first take care of yourself then show what you are on social media.

and by the way, valuing your precious time and saving your energy for a good purpose is a beautiful way to love yourself.

Social media is anti-social instead you should connect with the people in real life if possible.

30. Expect more from you

Love yourself: Love the truth(Replace expect with accept)

Expectation can give you a feeling of loss while acceptance makes you satisfied.

Expect less from others, otherwise, it may hurt your feelings. Especially stop expecting from the wrong person and when you know the truth.

Accept the truth and expect only from yourself.

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