Be Kind To Yourself

''Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself. ''

Kindness is my favorite word in the dictionary of life, and it is also the one word which motivates me each and every day.
If there is one rule in the book of kindness, it is to be kind to yourself first.
It is sincerely the most important gift you can give yourself in this adventure called life.

2018 so far has been a year of healing for me.
Healing my broken inner child.
Softening my heart and learning to love every part of myself.
Every day, I remind myself that if anything goes wrong, at least I will have myself at the end of the day.
It has been the main focus of most of my days, so much that I can not recall the last time I’ve engaged in a self-criticism behavior or inflicted toxic emotions against myself.
It is not that I don’t have insecurities, I think we all do, but I chose to change my perspective and to look beyond them.
I chose to fall in love with myself every single day.
I chose to give myself a tap on the shoulder when I need it.
To feed my mind with healthy and loving thoughts.
And on the most difficult days, to support myself, to be gentle with myself.
When you look deep into your heart and you find the good, the world around you changes, and you start to see the good in others too.
A powerful lesson life has taught me is that you can’t expand your love toward others, if you don’t cultivate it inside of yourself first.
Each day, I pick things that made me proud of the person I am, and I remind myself that I will always love the person I am, unconditionally.

It is unfortunate because as human beings, our brains have been wired to give a lot more credit to negative experiences than positive ones.
Let’s say you got yourself a new haircut.
You got 10 kind comments on how beautiful it looks on you!
But there is one person who decided to say the opposite…
Where will you focus rest upon?
It’s not easy!
On a scale of zero to ten, a positive experience may be a one or a two.
But for a negative experience, it jumps right to an eight or a nine.
Our brains love to scan for things that are not right.
But once we are aware of this shortcoming, we know what to do to counter it!
And that’s the beauty of the whole thing!!! ✩💖

We each have been gifted with this one life.
We are the creators of our own reality.
We can choose to create a reality filled with magic or filled with poison.
Who would not want to live a lifetime spent in kindness and peace toward their own person?
To wake up each and every day feeling content with the person we are.
Is there any use in spending our life journey at war with ourselves?
To not forgive ourselves for our past mistakes?
To be mean against us, and against our inner child?
It’s crucial to remember that while we live in a society which conditioned us to work, and work and work more, we ought to remember that we remain only human.
We can not and should not aim to have it all together, every minute of every day.
Sometimes, we can choose to not participate in this extreme way of living.
We can decide to be kind to our own person, rather than being ''kind'' to a society which does not have our own best interest at heart.
If we don’t look out after ourselves, who else will?

It does not matter where we come from or what we have done.
We can all learn to nourish our heart with more self-love, self-acceptance and self-respect.
Some of us have not had the luxury of having constantly received these crucial needs as children, and hence why, it is even more so important that we start doing it for ourselves today.

Be your biggest fan💖
If there is one thing I hope you remember from this post, is to value being kind to yourself.
I love you all!!!
Thank you so much for taking your time to read me, and support me through it all. 💙💫