Remember I said that you need to learn to love yourself exactly as you are? I’m referring to your “flaws” and “imperfections” too! This activity will be difficult for just about everyone, so don’t worry if you feel resistant to it also.
One terrible result of low self-esteem is that it makes you see everything about yourself as bad or unacceptable in some way. You create this image of perfection in your mind, knowing that you’ll never measure up to it no matter how hard you try. What you probably fail to realize is that NO ONE could measure up to such ridiculous standards!
Over the years, I’ve discovered a foolproof way to make your perceived flaws and imperfections vanish, and I’m going to share it with you now. Love them. Accept them. Embrace them as a small part of a gorgeous, beautiful you. Most likely you are cringing at that suggestion! Most people do. However, you need to learn how to stop judging those parts of you – all parts of you, really.
Those parts of yourself are “bad” only because you are comparing them to some impossible standard. Stop doing that. Learn to love all parts of yourself and see them for what they are; not good or bad, just part of you.
Now, this doesn’t mean you can’t work on improving yourself, inside or out. You definitely can. But not from the perspective that there is something wrong with you as you are; rather from the perspective that you are great as you are and you want to be even better.
So, from now on when you judge a part of your body or character or capabilities and find it lacking, stop yourself and focus on loving and accepting that little piece of you instead. It will take practice, but eventually you begin to see yourself in a new light and realize that those parts of you are not so bad – they may even be unique and special. Just remember, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE those flaws and they will transform before your eyes.
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