I’d like to apologize for this article not coming out yesterday, July 12 as promised. I lost my entire hard drive yesterday and I found out that there might be a small chance to have it recovered but it would cost $800.00 to $2000.00 dollars. I am not sure yet how I’ll proceed so just know I lost everything. The worst part was it was my backup drive that failed. I had two drives and the hard drive that was newest failed, I still can’t believe what happened.

Here is the orginal Post that you should have recieved yesterday.

Hopefully you read my post from yesterday about loving yourself. If not, please jump over to this thread and read that first then come back here.

You know I was thinking, It just doesn’t make since that I tell talk to you about loving yourself but I don’t talk about how, right?

Well here are some tips on how to start loving yourself

1. When you reach out an item, that you plan to consume or even put on your body, ask yourself, is this good for me? Does this promote a healthy body, does this bring value to my health?
2. When you are having thoughts about something, or constantly going over and over in your mind about something you got upset about last week, stop and ask yourself, is this benefiting me, am I getting anywhere with this thought, how is this thought bringing joy or happiness in my life, is this thought providing value or stress?
3. When you are in a heated conversation with a friend or family member or whoever, if at all possible, try to start thinking if this argument or disagreement will solve anything or if it will negatively contribute to your health. Ask yourself is this building your relationship or if this is harming your relationship with that person.

See when we care about ourselves we put more thoughts into are actions, we think before we act and we think about the outcome of an action. We when start to care we will take out the time to do this.

Don’t beat yourself up if you do something that is not showing love to yourself, but try to make a goal to love yourself more and more each day. Sometimes throughout life we make good deposits into ourselves and sometimes we make withdrawals.

Try to make more loving deposits and less withdrawals on a daily basis and over time I believe you will learn to make more loving deposits and less withdrawals.

Make a goal today to do one loving thing to yourself. For example, you may be out eating with a friend and you see a super delicious food item on the menu and oh you want it so so bad, try to take some time to think first how will this delicious looking food benefit you, take some time to think about you. Maybe you decide I want to have this, but maybe instead of eating the entire dish you decide to eat half. Some might say you don’t love yourself but if you take the step to eat only half and get rid of the rest I believe you are working towards loving yourself, you are taking actions to cause less harm to your body.

Just take baby steps, don’t make this out to be more then what it is. I think everyday we have to constantly keep depositing into the love bank and the more we do it the easier it get and the more we start to love ourselves.

Please please don’t get mad at yourself if you take more withdrawals then deposits. Try again, there is always another opportunity. The lesson here is to start thinking about your actions and the affects of your actions before you take them, but there is no reason to get mad if you act out of turn. This will take time.

Tanisha Marshall
http://www.tanishamarshall.com