This is the first article in a series of materials on the topic of how to accept yourself and love yourself as you are.
- Part 1 - [you are here] - How to accept yourself and love yourself. What prevents acceptance
- Part 2 - Traps of complexes, or How to stop self-criticism
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If a person does not accept himself, or some part of himself, then he cannot love himself. How can we love what we reject?
For a long time, the topic of self-acceptance has been asking to be translated into an article, and now I finally decided to write it.
Working with people, I came to the conclusion that the root of any issue or problem is almost always the topic of self-acceptance. Those. it turns out that all problems, misunderstandings, confusing situations happen only because a person rejects himself .
Sounds paradoxical, right? Now I will try to explain clearly and with examples how this happens.
How to accept yourself and love yourself
It all usually starts in childhood, when you wanted to please your parents and please your friends. When you are a little older, you want to establish yourself in school, prove something to someone, become better than..., be more beautiful than..., stronger... and the like.
This is how the first inferiority complexes appear, tension and tightness, stooped posture, and for some, vision deteriorates. Self-esteem drops. You stop liking something about yourself: body, figure, face, level of knowledge. Everyone has their own, but there is always something you don’t like and don’t like. In adulthood, if you continue to not accept yourself, everything listed above grows to exorbitant proportions and turns... What it can turn into, I’d better write at the end :)
How to accept yourself and love yourself. What hinders acceptance? To begin with, I propose to consider the reasons in detail.
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