Self-Love And Respect

Written By Colēgia

Being kind to yourself is necessary as there are many positive benefits to this. Two ways to do this are to practice both self-love and respect. Each of these elements has its own ways to help you out. Today we want to talk about the importance of them.

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Self-Love

One way to define self-love is that it is “a regard for one's own well-being and happiness.” It is incredibly important to be able to have your own form of self-love. This can help various areas of our life such as confidence. Confidence is needed to be able to try new things and succeed in different settings. Confidence can let us thrive in different environments, meet new people and give us the courage to push ourselves. Self-love recognizes that we need to practice patience for the things we want. Patience can help in many ways such as giving us a larger sense of gratification at a later date. This can be boiled down to what sort of goals we want to achieve or the person we want to be. While we can't reach our ideal self in a day, we can certainly take active steps toward getting ourselves there.

“Self-love recognizes that we need to practice patience for the things we want.”

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Respect

Respect is something that goes hand in hand with self-love. Respect can be defined as “a sense of pride and confidence.” Self-respect is good as we need to believe in our strengths and capabilities. This can contribute to our overall sense of happiness which translates well with how we express ourselves to the world. Self-respect can be the difference between feeling nervous during a presentation or ready to show our talents. It can also affect how we feel in other areas such as learning a new task. Respect can give us the motivation to do better in spite of the odds. This can apply to our creative endeavors as well as it is very tangible how comfortable we feel with this. Feeling like we provide value is important as we want to make a difference in the world. Whether this is a personal goal by doing well in school, or trying to improve on something, respect can build us up when we need the boost.

“Self-respect is good as we need to believe in our strengths and capabilities.”

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They Promote Happiness

The biggest reason why we want to be mindful of both self-love and respect is that they promote happiness. Happiness is something that we deserve and need in our lives as it can lead to a lot of other positive benefits. One such way is that it can help with gratitude. Gratitude reminds us that there are many things to appreciate in our lives such as the people within it, or hobbies that provide us joy. Other great benefits of self-love and respect are that the good aspects of those can radiate in multiple ways. Simple acts of kindness can help others find their own form of respect for themselves. Giving someone a smile or holding open the door can be subtle, yet transformational. It may take time to work on these but the more we work on them the happier we will be.

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