2 Ways to Loving Your Inner Self

Are you so stressed and being a busy mom that you don’t take time to slow down and love yourself?  And do you want to make your life a happier and more peaceful one?

These two ways will help you achieve the highest level of love with your inner self and become a more confident you by using some simple techniques.

Meditation is vital for loving yourself (self-love) because it gives you quiet, alone time. Here are five meditation techniques to help you meditate and the Power of Eating Food with a high (positive) vibrational frequency.

1. Why Meditation is Vital for loving your inner self

Meditation has a positive effect on our attitude towards life because it makes us take some time to quiet our mind. This helps to soothe our nerves and make us feel stress-free. Removing the negativity of stress helps you better perceive positive vibes from others and feel happy about your life and relationships. Yoga is also effective in clearing your mind and reducing the tension of stress.

Meditation gives your immune system a boost and your mind a chance to reflect on the positive things in your life. There is a variety of meditating techniques, such as concentration meditation, which is used to focus on a single point, and mindful meditation, which is used to control wandering thoughts. Meditation can help lower your blood pressure, improve blood circulation, lower your heart rate, reduce perspiration, slow your respiratory rate, reduce anxiety and relieve stress. Meditation can also help you develop self-love in the following ways:

Meditation addresses the stress

In today’s world, stress has become our biggest enemy; it promotes negative feelings and vibes about ourselves and contributes to long-term exhaustion and mental fatigue. Meditation helps to ward off such negative thoughts by promoting a good sleep cycle, better nervous system health, and improved digestion. Meditation is great for relieving stress from your life and helping you discover and love yourself.

Mindful awareness helps us to steer clear of self-destructive habits

A meditation practice not only helps guide you into better eating habits and exercise, but it also helps you steer clear of other self-destructive habits. These can be anything from avoiding junk food to sleeping better and fending off negative thoughts. Meditation provides the mindful awareness that is required to avoid negative behaviors and maintain positive ones.

Meditation improves our self-awareness

Meditation increases your self-awareness; as a result, be become more in tune with what you should eat and how you should exercise to keep your body healthy and promote positive vibes. Practicing good self-care ultimately helps you love yourself.

Here are a few simple ways to help you start meditating:

  • Sit back or lie as comfortably as possible.
  • Close your eyes.
  • Breathe naturally; don’t try to control it.
  • Now breathe by focusing your attention on it and notice how your body moves with each inhalation and exhalation. Observe how your throat, chest, and abdomen move during breathing.
  • Just notice the movement without controlling the breathing process. Start doing this for 2 to 3 minutes and then increase the duration.

Including meditation in a regular routine will also help boost your energy levels.

 

How to start meditating with 5 simple techniques including moving meditation

Here are five basic meditating techniques. Try them all, and decide which one best fits you and your lifestyle.

1.   Moving Meditation

If you don’t like sitting for long periods of time, walking meditation might be for you.  You focus on your body while moving.  While your arms and legs swing, feel them lifting and extending. Feel your feet as they rise and touch the ground. Keep your mind focused on the movements of your body instead of on other things.

2.   Breathing Meditation

Get in a comfortable position. Close your eyes and inhale slowly through your nose. Hold the breath for a few seconds, then exhale it slowly through your mouth.

3.   Mindfulness Meditation

To practice this one, your mind needs to be present in the right moment. Start by focusing on your breath and continue by feeling other sensations throughout your body.

4.   Mantra Meditation

This technique is conducted by repeating a sacred word or phrase, such as “aum.”  To bring your mind to a state of focused tranquility. You can repeat the mantra aloud or repeat it silently.

5.   Empty Mind Meditation

This meditation technique allows you to be fully aware without a specific focus. Simply sit in a peaceful place in a good posture and let your thoughts float without passing any judgment on them or lingering on any of them.

These meditation techniques are simple and effective enough to start your meditation practice or enhance your existing one.

2. The Power of Eating Food with High Vibrational Frequency

They say we are what we eat, and rightly so: food is a basic necessity and may even be one of the reasons behind making our lives great and helping us feel good about ourselves. Because we are made up of and use energy, our bodies require us to consume energy in the form of food, air, and water for sustenance and good health. To promote self-love, our inner selves require thoughts made up of positive vibrational energy. We can raise our energy vibrations by eating highly nutritious, energetic foods and eliminating unhealthy thoughts, foods, and relationships. Eating high-energy foods helps us reach a higher consciousness and better connect with our higher source. Fresh and organic foods are high in nutritional value and offer great vibrational energy benefits. Fast food and junk food, on the other hand, are of low vibrational quality and don’t add any valuable nutrients to the body. Eating high amounts of these foods can result in poor health.

To lift the energetic vibration of your food, practice gratitude and avoid negative thoughts while preparing your food. Here is a short list of high-energy foods to increase, and low-energy foods to avoid:

High-energy foods

• Fresh, certified organic fruits and vegetables
• Natural supplements, like spirulina
• Pure or filtered water — reverse osmosis or freshly collected spring water are the best choices
• Healthy oils, like olive oil and coconut oil
• Nuts and seeds
• Fermented foods
• Herbal teas
• Herbs and spices
• Raw chocolate
• Raw honey and maple syrup
• Legumes
• Grains such as buckwheat, brown rice, amaranth, and spelt

Low-Energy foods

• Genetically modified (GMO) foods, and conventional foods that have been treated with chemicals and pesticides
• White rice and flours
• Sugars and artificial sweeteners
• Coffee
• Sodas
• Alcohol
• Meat, fish, and poultry
• Processed, packaged, canned and fast foods
• Unhealthy oils, like canola, cottonseed, margarine, and vegetable oils
• Frozen foods
• Pasteurized cow’s milk, yogurt, and cheese
• Cooked foods, deep-fried foods, and microwave foods

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Affirmations that will change your life

Here is a passage of affirmations by Marianne Williamson that really touched me. Take a moment to read and reflect on it and bring it into your heart.

“There can be no darkness where I provide the light.

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the absence of one, the other disappears. All the darkness in my life – the fears, neuroses, dysfunctions, and diseases – are not so much a thing as the absence of a thing. They represent not the presence of a problem but rather the absence of the Answer. And the Answer is love.

All fearful manifestations disappear in the presence of love.

Today I make a stand against darkness, knowing that love will save me from the painful delusions that occupy my mind.

As I myself surrender my mind to love, and dedicate myself to the Light of True Being, then love will cast out my fears and light will cast out all darkness.”

7 Strategies To Practice Self-Care

Self-care is all the rage these days. And why shouldn’t it be? Taking care of ourselves is one of the most important things we can do in our lives. It doesn’t matter whether you are a philanthropist or good samaritans at heart, we all need a little extra love every now and then.

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Self-care doesn’t have to be a huge, grand, expensive gesture for yourself, although, take it from us: it can be! It can be something simple, small, and meaningful for yourself. There isn’t a scale of how you practice self-care, and it isn’t comparable from one person to another. This should be encouraging for you! This means that you don’t have to go out and completely rearrange your lifestyle or spend your retirement savings on a new program. What it does mean, is that you have the freedom and the opportunity to learn how to love yourself in new ways. Curious? Take some deep breaths, and read on for our favorite self-care strategies!

1.  Count your blessings.

Okay, cheesy, we know, we know. But seriously, keeping track of good things that happen in your life will do wonders for your mental health and emotional self-care. It can be so easy to start that negative self-talk after a rough day at work or when things are just generally hard. Those days–those weeks–happen to the best of us, and can be big triggers for anxiety. But taking a few moments right before you go to bed, or throughout your day, can be really helpful to reset your mind and build some gratitude into your daily routine. Plus, on the extra hard days, you will have a record of goodness to look back on and be thankful for.

2.  Try something new.

When we say, “Try something new,” what comes to mind? Maybe there’s a pottery course you’ve been interested in taking or a new yoga class at the gym. Maybe there is a new recipe on your Pinterest board or a woodworking project you just haven’t gotten around to yet. Taking time to integrate new things into your daily routine can be a form of self-care–you are a person, and your thoughts and desires matter! Create space in the day to day to be a little adventurous, even if trying something new just means ordering something new on the menu.

3.  Find a way to move every day.

No, we don’t just mean moving from your bed to your couch every day, although that’s a start. It is generally recommended to get at least 30 minutes of exercise every day. You know this doesn’t just refer to time in the gym–it could be taking your dogs for a walk, playing with your kids on the playground, working in the garden, swimming laps in the pool… you get it. Getting your body moving is essential to taking care of yourself. It doesn’t have to be your most intense workout for it to be helpful and cultivating for your physical health.

4.  Give yourself a break from technology.

Kids these days, adults these days, everybody these days are constantly attached to technology in one form or another. We don’t care how old fashioned you are, because that’s the truth–we live in a digital world. And while it has its benefits, it also has its consequences for you, too. Scrolling through your Instagram for hours can be just as draining for you as it can be for your phone battery, so put your phone down and detox if you can. Whether you set a limit on your device itself (psst–you can set a timer on your phone to lock apps after a certain period of time), or just keep it out of specific rooms (i.e., no phones at the dinner table or in bedrooms), this can do wonders for your mental health and your energy levels.

5.  Eat Breakfast.

This is a big one–who eats breakfast anymore? You know, breakfast, the most important meal of the day? Yeah, that one. There’s a reason it is so important. Eating breakfast can set you up for success in more ways than one, including helping extend your energy and keep you from bingeing on that bag of chips after you get home from work. If you have a hard time getting up in the morning, mix up some overnight oats or chia seed pudding, or slice and package some fruit for an easy grab-and-go option when you are running out the door in the morning to grab your Uber.

6.  Take a hard look at your sleep schedule.

Whether you absolutely adore sleeping or think it is a total waste of time, we all need sleep. Most of us need between 6-8 hours of sleep per night; some people naturally need more, and others naturally won’t need as much. How well you sleep can be a huge indicator of how well you are taking care of yourself, and if you are dealing with huge amounts of stress or are walking through a season of transition, sleep actually becomes more important, even if it is one of the first things to go in our routines. To get better sleep, steer away from caffeine and sugar, cut down on the blue light technology before you hit the hay, and consider adding some yoga or meditation into your routine before you turn out the lights. Each of those things can be super helpful to make sure you get as many REM cycles as possible per night.

7.  Supplement your daily routine.

Whether you add some Full Spectrum CBD Tincture Oil into your morning routine or keep some CBD Gummies at your desk for the 2pm slump, supplementing your life with nutrients, vitamins, and other products can be a really easy way to practice self care. Whether you use as needed or take a few gummies every day, you may be able to notice a whole new level of confidence, calmness, and collectedness in the way you function day by day. Sounds like a win to us!

 No matter what strategies you try, we hope these self-care ideas are helpful as you seek to integrate more personal well-being work into your daily routine. Happy self-caring!

This article is originally published at SundayScaries.

It’s here! My New eBook: 5 Habits to a Healthy Life including recipes!

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My eBook shows you how to incorporate all aspects of your life (nutrition, exercise, relationships, career, spirituality, and self-care) to create a healthier, happier you!

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5 Tips to Help Your Love Yourself

In today’s busy world, we do not get any time for ourselves and ignore our well-being. And this ignorance leads to mental and physical health issues. So, it is very important to take some time out for yourself from your busy routine, we neglect ourselves and never take a break for any sort of self-care. This has led us into the never-ending work routines with no recreation. Hence very often we start feeling down or frustrated or hysteric even. The easy solution to this problem is to take care of you. Take out some “me-time” from your around-the-clock schedule and treat yourself with something nice to relieve the stress. And do not feel selfish about it. Because when you feel good, you’re able to take better care of your relationships and work. There is no specific thumb of rule to take care of yourself; you can plan whatever you like to do to feel refreshed. However, here is a list of things that makes most people feel happy. Follow the below steps to take care of yourself and get healthy.

  1. Spend some time alone with you, away from the running world, in some calm and quiet place. You can go for a morning walk or anything you love to do while alone. But don’t put on TV or laptop. Just be with yourself.
  2. Analyze what you have been doing and appreciate yourself for your achievements and encourage attaining more.
  3. Read your favorite book or poetry.
  4. Focus your energy on being a beautiful person on the inside rather than the outward beauty.
  5. Get up early in the morning, eat healthy through the day, indulge in some exercise and meditation and go to bed early. This healthy routine will keep your mind and body on the right track and your soul will automatically feel refreshed.

With these simplest steps, you can learn to love yourself and bring positive changes to your life.

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