Self-Care With Shaki

Self-acceptance is the first step of moving forward in life. It is the path towards peace and tranquility. Self-acceptance is not something that is inborn, it is a trait that you need to develop. Knowing your flaws and accepting them will reduce the amount of depression and anxiety. Self-acceptance can give a sense of freedom and increased optimism. 1. You are not your behavior / emotions Often, people equate themselves with their behavior or emotions. When faced with a challenging or hard situation you may say something like "I am depressed", "I am a failure", "I am worthless". When you are saying "I am depressed", you are equating yourself to the depression. But the reality is you are just feeling depressed. You are not the depression itself! In the same way, if we fail in something, automatically most of our minds think that "I am a failure". We over-generalize our flaws and mistakes and equate ourselve...

I would say that acceptance is something that you need to develop if you want to lead a life full of colors. Without acceptance, it is quite hard to move forward in our life. When you don’t try to accept yourselves, you will always tend to over-analyze your mistakes and get depressed over what happened to you. You will get stuck in the place you are because rather than accepting the situation and moving forward, you will always ruminate over what could have happened. Acceptance is the first step to move forward in every way. You should accept your flaws and mistakes. Most of us hate ourselves and our life only because we do not accept our mistakes. We want us to be perfect. Learn to accept your mistakes and imperfections. No one in this world is capable of being perfectly perfect t with zero flaws. You have to surrender to yourself. Surrendering is the first step to learn acceptance. Resistance is going to bring nothing to you. You will only fight against your imperfecti...

It is extremely important to love the most important person in your life. Who did come into your mind when I said the most important person? Mom, Spouse, Kids? Then you are like most of the people in the world who always put them and their choices behind family and relationships. Yes, it is necessary to shower your close ones with care and love. But it is tremendously important that you should top your own priority list. Before starting to love myself I used to put people's opinions and necessities before mine. I noticed that when I started pleasing others needs my confidence level dropped down, I went into depression and was always anxious. I was no longer the happy go lucky person I used to be. That’s when I started practicing self-love daily. There are a lot of ways in which you can boost self-love.  Below are the five major practices that helped me to get back.   1. Stand up for yourself            ...