The Self-Love Journal: Banish Self-Doubt and Learn to Love Yourself

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Force" is the key word there. It's hard to generate any emotion on demand, and that's the same for self-love. We also have a specific guide that walks you through how to generate more self-compassion for yourself and general compassion for others. Whether you're writing for yourself or for a loved one, our Autobiography Journal will help you record the story you don't want to forget.

Self-Love Journal Prompts to Improve Your Self-Esteem 155+ Self-Love Journal Prompts to Improve Your Self-Esteem

As we’ve just explored, you’ll inevitably be faced with people who disagree, disapprove of, or outright challenge your desire to make self-love a way of life.Without self-acceptance, both psychological and physical wellbeing can suffer. Research from Harvard University suggests that poor self-acceptance can upset emotional control by directly disrupting brain regions that control it and by indirectly increasing stress signals. Individuals that feel negatively about themselves have less gray matter in brain regions that control emotions than individuals with a higher level of self-acceptance (Pillay, 2016). Why is it so damn hard for us to love ourselves?” The short answer to this questions is that most of us were raised in a society (and likely a family) that failed to teach us about self-love.

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Since low self-acceptance is linked with an increase in right-hemisphere brain activity, meditation, mindfulness, and particularly self-compassion can be practical tools for increasing it. Research has also found that people were more capable of accepting praise and displayed more brain connectivity after practicing loving-kindness meditation (Pillay, 2016). Here is an example of a loving-kindness meditation practice. But, here’s the thing. Self-judgment becomes toxic when it’s used to negatively minimize, bad-mouth, shame or otherwise harm ourselves. This seemingly ‘simple’ acceptance practice actually takes a lot of effort and can be strengthened through daily practices such as contemplation, mindfulness, and meditation. You can apply this philosophy to anything in life – even the inabilityto love all that arises is an opportunity to forgive and accept yourself!Most people not only fail to possess self-love, but they’re also caught up in an Underworld of fear and pain.Fear and pain are sourced from the illusion that we’re separate from Life – that we’re humans having a life experience, rather than Life itself having a human experience.