Crafting a healthy image of self will help you to be self-confident. Learn to be body confident despite imperfections, and embrace the beauty of yourself inside and out.
Some people just seem loaded with confidence and faith in themselves. Other people can't see any positives about themselves and seem to always feel bad about everything they do. Wouldn’t it be nice if all of us could be one of those confident individuals who thrive through body positivity? We can. Join Mysticsense to find out all about body positivity. Find out what it is and if we can have it, despite imperfections. Find out what contributes to poor body image and how to be body confident no matter what. Maybe you're not body confident- yet, but you can be. Your body confidence can help to build your overall confidence. Read on to find out how.
What is Body Confidence?
Body confidence is loving and accepting yourself. Embracing your unique attributes and not comparing yourselves to others for a sense of self-worth contributes to body confidence. Some people think body confidence simply means liking the way that you look, but it is so much more than that. It means liking the sound of your own voice, respecting your body's unique needs, and taking care of yourself. Conscious awareness of the way that you are and embracing those things instead of cutting yourself down because of them is body confidence. Body confidence means making the most of your positive qualities and improving or accepting flaws.
Body confidence is radical self-acceptance, even in the face of great criticism. It means that you are happy to be who you are, you are happy with the way that you are, and would not trade those things in for anything else. It means walking among your critics, not caring what they think, and liking yourself enough that if nobody else likes you, it doesn't matter. Body confidence is a form of self-care. That contributes to your emotional well-being which translates into better physical health. Body confidence means that you will nurture your body with the food, medicine, rest, and activities that you need. It will give you the strength to walk away from toxic situations and toxic people and do the things that you know are good for yourself. It also gives you the courage to reject unsolicited advice. Find out how here: What to Do with Unsolicited and Unwelcome Advice
But What About Imperfections?
Imperfections are inevitable. Imperfections exist everywhere in nature, not just in human beings. Imperfections are thought of as flaws, but who decides what is perfect and what is imperfect? Who sets that standard? Instead of seeing imperfections as something broken, malformed, or somehow wrong, why not see imperfections as randomness in the infinite variety of creation? Stretch marks thus go from being ugly marks on the skin to being testaments of your fourth pregnancy. Age spots transform from being ugly skin discolorations brought on by age to being physical remembrances of the beautiful years that you have lived. A voice that is higher than most people’s voices goes from being screechy to being unique and filled with character. It is all a matter of mindset.
How we perceive imperfections can also be the starting point for improvement although an imperfection does not necessarily mean something needs improved. It just means that sometimes we need to accept that flaws are inevitable and it's ok to have imperfections. Everybody has a spot on their body or in their personality that could be viewed as imperfect. When Mahalia Jackson was a child, her dramatic vocal expressions and sweeping movements while she was singing were seen as unacceptable by some of the adults around her. She was even accused of blasphemy. That so-called imperfection would be one of the things that made her famous. So, who says imperfections are bad? Loving yourself helps you take control of your own life. Find out more ways to do that here: Overcome Powerlessness and Take Command of Life
What Contributes to Poor Body Image?
A poor body image can sneak in when we least expect it. Chances are you've been trained to be humble since childhood, and praising yourself may be considered arrogant. In many forms, society teaches us to dislike ourselves and instills a low self-image on us. Comparing the worst in ourselves to the best and other people will also give us a low self-image. Sometimes, nobody else is responsible, but we have personal insecurities that give us a low body image.
Society
Everywhere we turn, it seems that there are advertisements for self-improvement. There is a product or a pharmaceutical that is said to treat every flaw inside and outside of our bodies. Stretch marks? Try this serum. Unwanted weight gain? Try this diet. Is your hair turning gray? Try this hair dye. Are your nails considered too thin and short? Glue these fake nails on. There is a product for everything, and the target audience is you.
There comes a time when we have to turn aside from societal expectations, not caring what other people say, and not caring what advertisers want us to buy from them. If some professionals are to be believed, happiness is just one purchase or cosmetic treatment away, and of course everybody needs to spend their money on that. Clothing, plastic surgery, artificial things installed on our bodies, modern clothing and jewelry, and cosmetics don't enhance who we are. They disguise us. If you want to wear makeup, get plastic surgery, dye your hair, or do anything to alter your appearance that's ok. Just don't feel bad about yourself if you don't, because you are beautiful even without them.
Peer Pressure
We are a competitive species, always comparing ourselves to others. Some people believe that they are not good enough unless they prove themselves superior to everybody else. These people believe that they have to earn more money, own more property, have the most admirable appearance, the most friends, and outperform everyone in every aspect of life. This hyper competitiveness sets us up for emotional failure. This is because even if we are considered the best within our group, there are billions of other people in the world. There will always be someone somewhere who is richer, prettier, has more friends, or owns more property, but that does not mean that what you have is not enough.
Instead of striving to outperform other people, why not strive to be a better version of yourself? What do you focus on when you seek self-improvement? Do you want other people to say that you are the best dressed? Or do you want to focus on breaking bad habits and replacing them with better habits? Do you seek to impress other people, or do you think about setting goals that are important to you in achieving those? Giving in to peer pressure is a response to fear. Fear of being disapproved of or unliked pushes us to try to imitate what we believe other people expect. Focus on making yourself happy instead of impressing other people to embrace body confidence. You may be envious of other people- but that is not necessarily bad. Find out why envy can be a good thing here: Why Being Envious Can Be Good for You
Personal Insecurities
We all have personal and securities. We're all nervous about making mistakes and embarrassing ourselves. We're all concerned that we might fail in an area of life where we want to succeed. We all worry that perhaps we don't have what it takes to make it. Everybody, even the most successful people, have moments when they doubt themselves. Even though this is normal, allowing these self doubts and personal insecurities to rule us will hold us back from moving forward to success. When you hear that nagging voice inside your mind reminding you of something that makes you feel insecure, flip the inner dialog from negative to positive.
If you are worried that your business presentation won't impress your colleagues, don't tell yourself that you don't have what it takes to succeed. Use it as a reminder to give yourself plenty of time to prepare by researching and practicing before the day of the presentation. You will feel much more well prepared and feel a lot less insecure. If you're single and getting back into dating, instead of telling yourself that there must be something wrong with you if you are single, flip the inner dialogue. Remind yourself that a lot of people are single and that's because they haven't found the love of their life yet. That will help you shift the focus from worrying to being open to new love.
How Body Confidence Builds Self-Esteem
Body confidence builds self-esteem in countless ways. When you have confidence in yourself, you tell yourself over and over again that you are worthy. You tell yourself that you are worthy of the company of other people, and you are worthy of admiration and love. You tell yourself that you are worthy of accomplishing the goals that you set for yourself, and you tell yourself that you can do it. You tell yourself that you are attractive intellectually and physically, and you tell yourself that you deserve to live a good happy life. You tell yourself that you look good enough, that you behave well enough, and there is enough good in you that other people will see it.
The way that we view ourselves dictates how we present ourselves. This decides how we interact with the world around us. This in turn decides how people will react to us. If people perceive that you are unconfident, they will think that there is something wrong. They will think it's because you don't know what you're talking about, you don't know what you are doing, or you don't have anything positive to offer. Confidence communicates success, reliability, and capabilities. After all, if you don't believe in yourself, how can anybody else? When you carry yourself with self-love, people can see it and will want to find out what is so wonderful about you. Read about love at first sight here: Is Love at First Sight Real?
How to Be Body Confident
Body confidence can be achieved by anyone. Even if you've spent your whole life having no confidence at all, following four simple steps will help you to gain body confidence. Focus on your strengths instead of cutting yourself down for weaknesses, and focus on what your body does instead of just the way that it looks. Next nurture yourself, taking care of yourself lovingly. While you're doing all of this, ignore the critics.
Focus on Your Strengths
So what if you're not the best singer? If you can bake great pies let somebody else do the singing. So what if you're not the fastest runner? If you're great at doing watercolor portraits let somebody else win races. So what if you're not good with animals? If you're great with kids, somebody else can take care of animals. Each of us are born with special strengths and talents we excel at. Not everybody has the same talents, and that's okay. Don't feel bad because you don't have certain talents. Enjoy the ones you do have.
Focus on What You Do
You might think you're not the prettiest, but your body was given to you to do more than look pretty for other people's viewing enjoyment. It doesn't matter what you look like when you are kind to people, and it doesn't matter what you look like when you're feeding the hungry. It doesn't matter what you look like when you're healing the sick, and it doesn't matter what you look like when you are making someone who is sad smile. Focus on the beautiful things that you do instead of just what you look like. You are more than just what you look like. Use magic too, focusing on abundance for your life. Learn how here: Powerful Magic and Spells for an Abundant Life
Nurture Yourself
If you don't take care of yourself, who will? Nurture yourself inside and out, supporting your mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical health. Eat good healthy food. Get plenty of rest and sleep. Nurture your mind by learning what enriches you. Nurture your emotional self by spending time with the people you love and doing the things that you love, and splurge a little bit too. Nobody ever got anywhere denying themselves a healthy, happy life. So take care of your beautiful life and your beautiful body.
Ignore Critics
Everybody has flaws and imperfections, but there are some people who go around over focusing on what they perceive to be other people's imperfections. Some of them are very vocal about these criticisms and they never seem to want to shut up. Eventually they're going to get around to criticizing you. You have a choice. You can either let them make you feel bad or you can simply ignore them. Some critics are just perpetually dissatisfied people. Learn how to handle them here: Learning to be Satisfied When You’re Never Happy
Being body confident doesn't mean you're perfect. It just means that you love yourself enough and wouldn't rather be anyone than who you are. Body confidence is confidence not only in your physical appearance, but what your body is capable of, who you are as a person, and the contributions that you bring to society. Personal insecurities and negativity from other people contribute to lack of body confidence, but that can be fought. Focus on your strengths and what your body does and instead of just the way it looks. Nurture and indulge yourself and stop caring about what the critics have to say about you. You are perfect inside and out just the way you are!
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