Ctrl Shift Self Love
9 Ways to Shift into Self-Love
Loving yourself might sound a little odd, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t critical. The more you love yourself, the better you will take care of yourself. That impacts your health, longevity, self esteem, self-confidence and success.
When you love yourself, you make yourself a priority. The truth of the matter, you deserve nothing less.
As you embark on this journey of self love, here are key things to remember:
Remember your Victories. View yourself in a positive light more often, One of the easiest way to do this to remember your triumphs. Maybe you won the oratorical contest in the 2nd grade or perhaps your won a track meet in 10th grade. Remember your high school graduation. Think about the day you received that promotion. Easy to fall in the trap of remembering our failures. Try practicing the opposite and see what happens.
Volunteer. Volunteering is a great way to boost your self-esteem. It is easier to love yourself when you see yourself as a good person. Put your attention on someone else. You will enjoy the mental break and your opinion of yourself will get a boost. You are a good person, so remind yourself of that from time to time.
Be a good friend. You know how to be a good friend, but there are times that you are not. Being a good friend make you feel good about yourself. It will also improve the way your friend view and treat you, too Everyone win when you decide to be a good friend.
Forgive yourself. You made a few mistakes. Who hasn’t? However, it is time to forgive yourself. GIve yourself a break. You would do the same for someone else you care about, so do it yourself.
Pursue what you need rather that what you want. What you want is rarely what your need. Once you have take care of your needs, you will be a better position to acquire what you want. Satisfying your needs is a prime example of self love.
Take care of your body. When you are eating poorly and not receiving enough exercise, you are harming yourself. And this is not an example of self-love. Show yourself some love and take your health seriously. You are loving yourself every time that you eat a healthy meal or exercise your body.
Appreciate that your are unique and wonderfully made. Often times as women, we get embarrassed about our qualities, skills and abilities that unique. Remember, that the most valuable part of you are the ones that different from others.
Practice an attitude of gratitude. Be grateful for your body, mind and uniqueness. Practice being grateful for everything in your life. You life is better than you think. You are better than you think. As you practice being grateful daily, you will start to believe that you deserve more love from yourself.
Be kind to yourself as you would be to anyone else. To be kinder to others than you are to yourself is just showing everyone, including yourself that you don’t respect yourself. At the end of the day, there may be no one looking out for you. You will have to take on this responsibility yourself.
Self Love is an important part of yourself development. WIthout self-love your success and happiness will continue to face huge obstacles. Self love is a skill that can be develop. It is also a result of an effective set of habits. Set aside some time each day to build your self-esteem and self-love. You life will be balanced and better because of it.
Be Balance & Well,
Shayla
Ctrl Shift Anxiety
There are many ways to approach anxiety. The simplest medos are also the known to be the best methods. I will explore those with in this blog in hope that you start to experience relief you need with minimal efforts.
Check out these strategies to worry less:
1. Ask yourself what you can do about it. There are many worries that are beyond your ability to influences. If you can do something about your concerns, by all means, do it. However, we know that many of the situations of worry can not be solved. Such as health issues of family member, weather for next Saturday, weather or not you get that promotion or even Politics.
2. Get more rest. A lack of sleep leads to increased anxiety. An extra hour of sleep each night can make a big difference.
3. Find somethings else to do. If worrying and anxiety are getting the best of you, try distracting yourself. You might think, “that’s not going to solve anything.” True, but neither will worrying. You might as well enjoy yourself as much as possible in the meantime.
4. Adopt Powerful Body Language. Strong Powerful Body Language can change your mood and attitude Try standing like a powerful that has control over her life. Lift your head up, sit up straight, chest out, smile, take up space, give a strong handshake, relax yourself and make good eye contact. For a bonus, watch movies with powerful, confidence characters and notice how they move and stand.
5. Laugh. You have a couple of memories or stories that always make you laugh when you think about them and share them Have these memories ready to go a moment’s notice.
Try out these tips to shift your perspective on managing your worries and anxiety. Next week, I will shared tip 6 through 10. Let me know how the first 5 have worked for you by emailing at shayla@ctrlshiftbalance.com.
Be Balanced & Well,
Shayla