3 Life Changing Steps to Self Love & How to prioritize yourself

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How many times have you heard about self love? But can you really define it? What are the steps to self love?Do you know how to prioritize yourself?

I have heard about self love many times, but nothing seemed to resonate for some reason. Everything I read or heard seemed so superficial, as if self love was an instant process, as if just by saying ” I love myself” should make me love myself.
Today I will share with you a more profound way to define self love and the three steps to self love that changed my understanding of this ongoing process. I will also share how to prioritize yourself in order to make these steps easier to achieve.

What is Self Love?

Self-love is the practice of understanding and accepting yourself and intentionally working to become your better self, prioritizing your overall well-being and happiness. It’s an internal process that takes place in your mind and allows you to be aware of your strengths and flows without judging yourself. Therefore, opening yourself to self-improvement and change, which can lead you to live a more balanced life.

Breaking down this definition is what provides the steps to self love.

3 Life-Changing Steps to Self Love

1. Understanding yourself:

is the first step to self-love. Real love is not superficial; that also applies to self-love. If you don’t know and understand yourself, your strengths, and your flaws, what are you loving?

This means going deeper, analyzing, and figuring out the reasons for your strengths and flaws. What causes them, what triggers them? 

This article on How to Know Yourself Better provides very helpful tips to help you in the process of knowing yourself and how it can improve the way you make decisions throughout your day.

Analyzing situations or instances when you feel strong can be crucial to working on how you approach your flaws. Once you learn that, it’s easy to accept yourself, love yourself, and care for yourself. 

2. Accepting yourself:

is the second step to self-love. Embracing your strengths and flaws allows you to be conscious and open to changing things you want to improve. Accepting yourself is a process that should be seen with an open and flexible mind to motivate yourself rather than feeling that you are settling for less.

Now, you are not judging yourself but taking control of yourself. And that is self-love.

This article shares 8 Ways To Accept Yourself, which I find very helpful because it provides a better understanding as to why it can be hard to understand yourself. Also, they share tips that can easily be incorporated into your day.

3. Becoming your better self:

is the purest act of self-love because it shows that you care about yourself. You want to improve yourself because you want to feel good. Once you have started understanding yourself and are able to accept yourself, you can start with the next step, the process of Becoming your better self.

You want to be happy.

You want to enjoy this life; yes, in this chaotic world, it’s possible. 

You know what self-love is and the three main steps to start your process; now what?

This post addresses 4 ways to Become Your Best Self and how your personality traits can be helpful when you put the right intention.

However, none of these steps and tips can be achieved if you don’t learn to put yourself first.
Please allow me to share the ultimate action that allowed me to start my process of self-love.

Prioritize yourself

To practice self-love, the first thing you can do is learn to prioritize yourself. I’m not talking about being selfish or that you stop caring about others. I’m talking about starting to see for yourself in a way you haven’t done before. 

How To Prioritize Yourself?

You can start with small actions:

These small steps helped me get used to looking at myself. For many years, I felt that I had taken care of everyone else and finished my to-do’s, and that’s when I could take care of myself. However, it’s more beneficial to do it the other way around.

Getting used to focusing on yourself will facilitate the process of self-love. You can also read my post on the Main Benefits of Self-Connection to get motivated to start your own process.

Now that you know what self-love is, the three main steps, and that you need to start prioritizing yourself, are you ready to start?

I would love to read you in the comments, 

Do you think I’m missing something that will get you started?

How do you practice self-love every day?

Let’s Bloom Together,

Jennifer M