50 Ways to Love Yourself

Loving yourself is hard work. Takes commitment. It’s uncomfortable. Requires swallowing the bitter medicine.

Especially for men, the concept of self love does not come naturally to us. 
Even if it doesn’t come naturally, we can still learn it. We can work on, and get better at, loving ourselves. 

To help you on your journey, I created a list of ways to love yourself. 

Whenever you’re in need of some self love, here’s what you can do. 

Here’s 50 ways to love yourself:

1. Take yourself on a romantic date
2. Eat a healthy meal 
3. Cook a healthy meal
4. Eat something indulgent and delicious
5. Drink more water
6. Give yourself a spa day
7. Get a massage
8. Bubble bath or Epsom Salt Bath
9. Light some scented candles/Aromatherapy
10. Sauna
11. Shower and massage yourself like you’re on ecstacy
12. Manicure/Pedicure (Men – Pedicures are AMAZING!!!)
13. Take yourself to the movies
14. Buy yourself a gift
15. Listen to music
16. Read a book
17. Draw a picture
18. Make some art/get creative!
19. Build something with your hands
20. Color/paint something in
21. Dance
22. Sing
23. Play music
24. Laugh
25. Smile
26. Learn a new hobby
27. Meditate
28. Take 10 deep breaths (or more)! 
29. Meditate on gratitude for your five senses
30. Meditate on gratitude for your organs
31. Meditate on love for your family
32. Meditate on love for your friends
33. Meditate on love for the whole planet
34. Visualize your dreams and imagine you’ve already accomplished them
35. Do yoga/Stretch
36. Exercise/Do something physical
37. Hug and kiss yourself when you wake up in the morning/before you go to bed at night
38. Thank yourself 
39. Tell yourself that you love yourself
40. Tell yourself you love and accept all of your flaws
41. Practice forgiveness for a difficult past experience
42. Voice yourself to someone who you have a bad relationship with
43. Act like a child
44. Do the weirdest thing you can do
45. Scream at the top of your lungs/Roar/Yawp
46. Grunt and make weird noises
47. Punch something (safely) – it’s good to let the aggression out!
48. Break something (safely) – it’s good to let the aggression out!
49. Stomp up and down and bang on your chest
50. Masturbate 

That’s it 🙂 No go out there and love yourself as thoroughly as you can!!!!

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Also published on Medium.