Loving yourself

byStevanovic1

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2 years ago

How to love yourself? Erich Fromm was one of the first to point out that
self-love is not the same as arrogance, conceit and self-centeredness.
According to him, loving yourself means: taking care of yourself taking
responsibility for yourself respecting yourself knowing yourself One of
the answers to the question "how to love yourself" is to take care of
yourself. 3 steps to self-love What does it mean to take care of
yourself? This means taking care of your physical health, getting enough
sleep, eating right, drinking enough fluids, being physically active.
Go to the doctor for regular check-ups, pay attention to body signals
and contact the doctor in time if you have any complaints. We often
neglect these aspects, and look for the causes of dissatisfaction in
some other areas, in life circumstances, other people or some of our
shortcomings. And maybe we are just sleepless, dehydrated, without
enough fresh air and sunlight. This means taking care of your mental
health. Set aside time for yourself, be in touch with your feelings, set
aside time and undertake activities aimed at satisfying your
psychological needs. Regularly ask yourself "How am I doing?", "What do I
need?", "What can I do to satisfy my need?". This means asking for the
support of others when we need it, because no one can do everything and
always alone. It means allowing ourselves to be weak, sad, upset
sometimes and accepting it as a sign of humanity and not some
deficiency. We often care more about others than about ourselves. We are
often available to our friends, children, partner for their needs, and
we neglect ourselves. We believe we are being selfish when we tell
someone, “No, I can't be there for you right now.” This means thinking
about how we allocate our time and energy, and when we plan activities,
we also plan the time we need for ourselves. Another answer to the
question "how to love yourself" is to take responsibility for yourself.
What does it mean to take responsibility for yourself? Taking
responsibility for yourself means seeing yourself as an adult who can
take care of yourself, who knows what you can and can't do, who knows
how to ask for help from others when needed, but doesn't expect them to
take care of you. like a small child. This means making it clear to
others what we need and want from them, without expecting them to read
our minds. This means that we do not blame the past for the fact that we
are not doing well now, but to look for ways to get from the position
we are in to where we want to be. This means that we don't say to
anyone, "It's your fault that I didn't succeed.", "I got angry because
of you," "I gave up everything because of you." This means that when we
do something, we do it of our own free will and stand behind our
actions. How to respect yourself? Respecting yourself means accepting
the fact that we are human beings like everyone else, and that we have
the same rights as everyone else. It means being aware of the limits of
your personality, what bothers us, what we don't like, what hurts us and
what we don't want to do. A list of assertive rights can serve as
inspiration: the right to self-responsibility the right not to like
someone the right not to make excuses the right to say NO the right to
change my mind the right to be wrong the right to know and the right not
to know the right not to understand the right to my own logic the right
to judge myself and the right to be autonomous What does it mean to
know yourself? "Great love comes from knowing a loved one well, if you
know him little, you will love him little, or you will not love him at
all." Leonardo da Vinci It is surprising how many people do not really
know themselves. During growing up, through the process of
socialization, i.e. adapting to society and learning how to function
with other people, we forget who we really are. How to get to know
yourself? It is a never-ending process, we can never say that we fully
know ourselves. But, to begin with, it is important to set aside time
for yourself, to listen to yourself. Knowing yourself means knowing what
you like and what you don't like. What we like and what we don't like