How Loving Yourself Can Help to Build the Relationships Around You
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, this week’s blog is all about love - more specifically, self-love. Throughout our lives, we have all experienced this feeling in many ways, whether it be through romantic partners, family relationships or friendships. In general, romantic love is considered to be the greatest type of love a person can experience, however, the practice of loving yourself can be just as valuable and important as any of the other ways of love – if not, even more important!
Self-love can help you feel more worthy and valuable as a person and can significantly improve your overall mental and emotional wellbeing. By loving yourself, you are accepting of the person you are and what you have to offer, which can greatly impact the relationships around you for the better.
3 Reasons Why Loving Yourself is Important in Building Relationships
- Higher self-esteem
When you implement loving yourself into your daily life, you begin to improve your own self-esteem. This can be shown through higher levels of confidence, a more positive mindset and becoming more open to the life around you. This means you show up as a better, more happier version of yourself to the people in your within your life.
- Setting Boundaries
Self-love can help you to focus on yourself and your own needs, therefore allowing you to set healthy boundaries for not just yourself but also for the people around you. Having the power to turn down things that are too much to take on or don’t bring you joy can prevent you from burning out or falling into a cycle of unhappiness. This allows you to create more time for yourself and your own happiness which can impact your overall wellbeing and how you interact with the people around you.
- Creates Fulfilling Relationships
With loving yourself, comes knowing your worth which can really impact the relationships around you. By knowing your worth and appreciating all what you have to offer, it becomes easier to decipher if the people around you are just as aware of this information as you are. It may be difficult to break off from people who don’t appreciate or respect you for the person you are, but it is much more rewarding finding the people who do. This makes the relationships you do have more meaningful and can help you to build more trusting and happier connections with the people around you.
3 Ways You Can Practice Self-love
- Become Mindful in the Way You Talk to Yourself
Many of us are prone to letting negative thoughts get the better of us which can have a knock-on effect on our mood throughout each day. However, if we can become aware of how we speak to ourselves and replace the negative thoughts with positive ones, we can slowly begin to shift our mindsets into thinking in a more joyful and happy tone, therefore making us feel better about ourselves and others around us.
- Do Things That Bring You Enjoy
In between the busyness of everyday life make sure to fit in time to do things you love and that make you happy. Whether that be playing your favourite music in the car, reading a chapter of a book you enjoy before bed or catching up with one of your best friends over the phone, anything the brings you joy can be considered self-love as you are choosing to do something for yourself.
- Invest Time in Yourself
Investing time in yourself can be done in many ways. You could pursue a new hobby you’ve always wanted to try; revamp your wardrobe and give yourself a new style or even just stick to a regimented skincare routine every day. Taking the time to do things for yourself means that you acknowledge your worthiness to be better and are committed to improving yourself and your wellbeing.
So, for this Valentine’s Day, remember to take the time out of your day to practice some self-love and what better way to do that then to book in a treatment with us at ABWR!