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Notes on Self-Appreciation, Self-Love & The Beauty of Womanhood.

There are times when one goes through a rough patch of self-doubt, self-hatred and just a lack of self-love and appreciation. But all these thoughts are negative and corrosive, and you must do everything you can to eliminate them.

Here are some inspirations to brim yourself with self-love:

Inner Peace

Self-love always begins with inner peace, because if you are struggle with inner demons, memories of the past, stress, anxieties, or depression, you will never been able to love yourself. Therefore, it is essential to silence and eliminate all these demons, anxieties and stress that is eroding away your happiness, and causing you to lack confidence and self-appreciation. The best trick is to start meditating, add stress-busting foods to your diet, and of course, communicate with yourself, which can be through keeping a journal, artistic endeavours, and of course, literally talking to yourself.

A Fabulous Figure

Most women tend to start hating their body after gaining weight, and since they are caught up in the vicious cycle of unhealthy eating and lack of exercise, it makes them less appreciative of their outer beauty and inner determination. But hitting the gym or a fitness studio can really help, from the very day, for research validates the fact that exercising releases happy endorphins that make you feel content and satisfied. If you hit the gym, regardless of whether you’re obese or not, it will help you sculpt the figure of your dreams, and that in itself will make you fall in love with yourself, and of course, your ability to make such a change possible.

Hair Experiments

Changing one’s look is always a remarkable idea when one feels short on self-love and needs a reason to appreciate one’s beauty. And nothing can change your look as tremendous as a strikingly different hair cut from the one you already have, along a dramatic hair colour. Make yourself feel different by looking like a completely new person. You know what they say, a woman who cuts her hair has plans to change her life. Well, if you’re looking to start out in the direction of change, start with a lovely haircut that makes you fall in love with how you look.

Minimizing Flaws

We all have flaws for we are human beings, a specie that is prone to mistakes, flaws and shortcomings. While physical flaws and outer beauty can always be rectified, improved and shrouded, it is really the inner beauty that defines our personality and requires change if we wish to change our self-perceptions. So, start out by outlining the flaws that make you feel bad about yourself, is it lack of motivation, laziness, a non-serious attitude, an inability to succeed-whatever it is, you need to believe in your power to improve and better yourself with every new day.

Self-Reflection

The importance of reflecting upon our choices, actions, desires and believes is essential for it promotes our ability to learn, change, adapt, experience and most importantly, grow. You must reflect on all matters of your life, from your career goals, prospects, mistakes, and achievements, to your wardrobe, fitness, beauty goals and whatever else it is that you are passionate about. When you take out time to reflect upon your life, it will help you improve a great many things to regain the love that you felt for yourself.

Pampering Sessions

It may come across as tad bit silly, but a luxurious and soothing session or manicure and pedicure can really fill you up with positivity. Keep giving yourself reasons to relax, to pamper yourself and provide your beauty parts the care they need to look voguishly on-point. So, start treating yourself at the salon, enjoy long and luxurious massages, spa sessions, meni-pedi, facials, and all that makes you feel wonderful about yourself, except of course drastic cosmetic surgeries. Because you see, there’s no happiness in altering what your mamma gave ya’.

Follow Your Dreams

Most women enter a self-loathing cycle when they are unable to follow their dreams and passions, and end up at a desk job that is downright boring, and the exact opposite of the person they wanted to be their entire life.

Listen up girl and listen clear, if you have a dream that drives you to the highest levels of passion, you are under an obligation to yourself to pursue that dream and become the person you always wanted to be. It will be tough, there will be risks, and you will have to work hard, but at the end, it will be your journey, you will have lived it your way, and you will be proud over your achievements for it will the fruit of your struggle and hard work.