- So how do you practice self-love? And what is it? And it's kinda a buzzword you hear people talk about it.
And oftentimes when we hear about it We think about unicorns and rainbows and crystals and things like that. But it's a very very real and beneficial thing. That's gonna help you go further, faster in life.
And without it, by the way, you'll go backwards. And so what is it? Self-love is just that, loving yourself unconditionally.
And I'm gonna share with you something that ya might not already realize. You already love yourself. You put food in your body.
You get sleep. You do all those things. Because you love yourself on some level.
You care deeply enough so deeply about yourself that you take care of yourself. But you might be asking yourself but Joseph I don't have that in other areas? I got low self-esteem and low confidence.
And I don't believe in myself and all that. The antidote is self-love. But lemme share with you how you do it, is really, really simple.
Remember, your brain, your body can't tell a difference between what's real and what's not, when you vividly imagine it and when you repeat it. By the way, I don't teach theory. I hated myself at one point, and I wasn't even conscious that I hated myself.
I wouldn't do things. I would procrastinate. I would hesitate.
I sabotaged myself. I didn't go after the things that I know I could, I dreamt about things and I felt terrible because I wasn't happening. I was constantly beating myself up and that beating is the antithesis.
It's the opposite of self-love. And somebody taught me something once, and they taught me that listen, self-love is about these two things. What you say and what you see, visual and auditory.
And so I started this practice that I wanna share with you. It's called the mirror exercise. Go to the mirror every single day, and look yourself in the eyes, and don't just look around your face and go you got this blemish here, you got this wrinkle you got this here.
Look yourself in the eyes, deep in your eyes you get that beautiful feeling where you know you're looking at your own beautiful precious soul, and it might shake you for a moment. That's your soul speaking up. And as you look yourself in the eyes now you've got the visual and it's you, nobody else, you and then you say the magic words.
There's four of 'em. You think there's only three, there's four of 'em. Number one is your name.
Say your name out loud with a smile on your face. And there's a reason for the smile and say, I love you. That's it.
Smile, look yourself in the eyes because by the way, when you smile it makes your body release something called dopamine. It is the most powerful substance drug if you will chemical that your body releases that that is the reward. It's the love drug.
It's a thing that makes you feel good and your brain goes, well that felt good. Lemme do it again. And guess what?
You will automatically start doing this. Do this for 10 days every morning when you get up, look yourself in the eyes, no matter, no matter how you feel. Look yourself in the eyes put a smile on your face, and say your name and say, I love you.
And when you're done, pat yourself on the back and roll up outta there. 10 days, and you'll start to feel that self-love it'll feel, you'll feel yourself, walking taller, stronger. You'll feel better about yourself, real simple exercise.
Do it. And remember, life's exactly what you dare to make it and fortune favors the bold. So boldly step up.
Dare to make your life magnificent. And I'll see you at the top.
