Benefits of Positive Self-Talk for Building Self-Love

Self-Talk

Self-talk is a dialogue one has with oneself. It is often the subconscious mind that prompts, influences, and guides this dialogue, which can make one realize one's own thoughts, beliefs, and ideas.

While self-talk can be a powerful medium, it can, however, be both constructive and destructive. When it is constructive, it can remain positive, encouraging and help build a sense of self-worth and self-confidence in you. On the other hand, if it turns out to be otherwise, it can become cynical and discouraging, lower your self-esteem and land you in hopelessness and pessimism.   

Positive self-talk can help us reframe our thoughts purposefully and turn our life around toward a constructive and rewarding future.  

Why Positive Self-Talk?

Simply because it can enhance your well-being, both physical and psychological. Research also shows that people capable of regular positive self-talk could develop mental skills, which can help them think out of the box solutions for problems and be more effective in enduring hardships and overcoming challenges. Undoubtedly, these should reduce the harmful impact of anxiety and stress on health and well-being.  

    

How to Work on It?

Overcoming Negativity

Positive self-talk can begin only with the ending of all negative aspects in the thought process. This negativity generally reflects in forms like blaming oneself for all omissions and commissions; focusing only on one's shortcomings and overlooking all the positives; fearing in advance that one may end up only as a disaster in any activity undertaken and thus mentally losing out even before commencing any task and seeing everything only through the prism of black and white as if there is nothing like grey and no middle ground.  

One has to start by recognizing the pattern of such negative thinking, feelings, and emotions, reduce their influence by painstaking practice over time and replace them slowly with optimism. It should be encouraging to note that a study has revealed that even children can practice and learn to shed their defeatist tendencies and develop confidence in themselves and in whatever they do.  

Infusing Positivity

Here are some simple means whose regular practice can help positive dialogue happen with oneself.

People can start with constructive affirmations through regular mental auto-suggestions, which they can also speak aloud to themselves. 'I remain loveable for whatever I am,' 'I am good enough for the work I am doing and the life I am leading' can be examples of some good affirmations. You can also write them down on small pieces of paper and keep them in places where you will see them regularly.

You can also surround yourselves with optimists who can stand by you, especially in trying times, encourage and inspire you and kindle a favorable outlook on life. That can help you absorb their emotions at the subconscious level and boost your self-confidence.    

Practice gratitude. Take some time daily for yourself, count your blessings, and reflect carefully on all things you should be grateful for in life, which can help you focus on your 'assets' and enhance a sense of self-worth.

Seek 'refuge' in humor. Look for ways, means, and possibilities to laugh and let go, like reading, watching dramas, television shows, or movies which tickle the funny bone in you. These can lighten you up significantly, ease your stress and tension and give you a positive turn.  

Benefits

Positive self-talk can give you an optimistic outlook, help you look at the brighter side of life, and bestow you with many health benefits. It can work as a potent stress management tool, improve your overall fitness, increase vitality, enhance immunity, mitigate pain, reduce tension and stress, regulate blood pressure and ensure good cardiovascular health, bring down the risk of untimely death, help perform better in whatever you do and bestow greater satisfaction in life.

It can also help turn your focus towards your strengths than on shortcomings, fight out negative emotions inducing stress and anxiety, challenge your own fears and beliefs about your limitations, replace them slowly with motivation and confidence, and help achieve excellence in your field of activity, which you would have otherwise thought well-nigh impossible!

Thus it can bless you with a much better quality of life.

So what are you waiting for? Start practicing positive self-talk right away, and experience its immense benefits for yourself