When you have a positive image of yourself, you feel secure and full of confidence. To feel self-assured means that we accept ourselves just as we are, with are perfections and imperfections. Self-esteem is what keeps us confident, reason why it is important to feel good and accepted ourselves without the need of comparisons and criticisms.
Self-acceptance is important for our physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing. What do you do when you look at yourself in the mirror? Do you like or hate what you see? Something very important women forget is that before you change anything, you must first accept you as you are. All changes we want to do to our bodies relate to our self-esteem, and there for self-acceptance.
As humans, we are never satisfied with what nature gave us. Rejection, criticism and advertises makes us question ourselves and search for a false eternal beauty. This makes most resort to practical solutions such as surgery, to achieve the look they long for. But, these decisions must not be made quickly; you might be changing something that in reality might not need to change at all.
We all have body parts we like more than others. Maybe you don’t like your eyes, but love your nose, don’t like your butt or abdominal area, but love your mouth. This kind of behavior has a negative domino effect, because to all those you will add the fact that you are not getting any younger and are getting more wrinkles soon, could lose your hair and gain more weight. And we have society to blame for constantly reminding us this will inevitably happen.
We all need to learn to accept ourselves just as we are; which can be quite hard to do as with time we start disliking more and more our bodies, making us think that our last resort is a visit to the cosmetic or plastic surgeon. Just remember that before you make any decision is important to seek advice from a certified specialist.
Modern woman are most likely to resort to plastic and aesthetic surgery and they are not alone. Nowadays many men visit to the scalpel just as frequent as women to improve themselves.
We are all unique and wonderful, learn to value yourself. Remember, acceptance does not mean you must like yourself completely, you are allowed to change, just discover with the proper guidance what is best for your body. Accept yourself as you are, take a good look at yourself in the mirror, breathe deep and say: “This is me, and I wouldn’t want it any other way”.
ALFA