How to learn to love yourself?
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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According to the polls, many women are very unhappy with their appearance. The list of the most annoying women parts of the body hit the waist, hips and chest. But researches of experts show that if even everywhere and with everything you have a full order, then this is not a guarantee that you again will not find yourself another drawback. It turns out that the family and the information that all family members invest in your ears while you are growing up play a significant role in relation to your own appearance, and subsequently it can lead to dissatisfaction with your own appearance, which will poison your life.
Even if your dislike for your own body is a long-standing business, do not despair, all this can be rectified in the shortest possible time.
- Expand the concept of beauty
Remember that the concept of the beautiful and ugly changed over time and still does not stop. Once popular were juicy pyshechki, then hudyshechki, but this does not mean that the tastes of people can be swept under one comb. Every time and person has his own concept of beauty.
- Say no to your own criticism
Instead of lamenting about their shortcomings and caustically commenting on them, try to treat them more positively or at least neutrally. Moreover, everything can be corrected with the help of properly selected clothing.
- Take action
The results of research scientists show that women who focus not on the problems of appearance, and on the elimination of shortcomings, feel more happy and satisfied with their appearance. Training is a powerful tool for changing one's attitude to one's own body. The effect is observed after six weeks.
- Match the reality and fictions
Often, women overestimate their shortcomings, especially if it concerns the waist and the thigh. Try the next experiment: take a rope and measure as much as you think is necessary to grab your waistline. Then wrap the rope around the waist and mark the difference between the actual state of affairs and your imagination. It would also be nice to get rid of clothes that are too small for you, so that it does not tease you even more. Work with what is and determine what advantages can be distinguished, and what you need to hide.
- Make friends with the reflection in the mirror
Especially if the season of summer holidays is ahead. Be in front of the mirror first fully clothed and properly consider those parts of the body that you seem beautiful. Then take off your clothes and praise in yourself everything you like, looking at your reflection. Over time, you will cease to treat yourself with skepticism.