Three Overlooked Areas of Self-Love
Self-love is an essential part of any healing journey. The most common practice to work toward self-love is self-care. At the beginning of my healing overhaul, I understood self-care as taking time for yourself, getting a massage, eating healthy, and engaging in your favorite hobbies. These are the external self-care practices, but what about the internal ones? While this list is part of self-care, there is another part that gets overlooked. As I have incorporated these three things into my own life, I feel happier and more self-aware than ever. Here are the three areas of internal self-care that can boost your self-love, along with the crystals that can help.
1. Trust yourself
When you find yourself second-guessing your decisions or needing the approval from others, it may be time to build trust in yourself. Trusting yourself means you have your own back. That despite what is going on around you, you know you can rely on yourself. If you don't trust yourself, you can accidentally give away your power and let others make the decisions for you. Your higher self wants you to believe in yourself. Connect to knowing you have what it takes to make decisions, move forward, and trust your intuition. It is all too easy to stop listening and trusting your initial inner knowing.
Bumblebee Jasper Chakra Stone brings more confidence in your decisions, increased ability to move forward in your power, and encourages trusting your instincts.
Kunzite Chakra Stone keeps you from dwelling on your fears of what the future holds and increases your ability to restore trust in yourself.
Sunstone Chakra Stone uncovers self-doubt and helps you listen to and trust your gut feeling.
2. Embracing Weakness
Unrealistic expectations from ourselves take a toll on our well-being. Embracing your weaknesses is the first step. This doesn't mean that you can't work on your weaknesses, but rather that you should accept them and work on improving them. Leaving no room for weakness by placing expectations on ourselves of needing everything perfect undermines our self-love. It leads to an internal battle of shame and self-criticism that leaves you empty. Perfection in everything is unattainable and leads to disappointment in yourself and feeling like you are not enough. There is a healthy balance to be found when it comes to expectations. Practice finding the right balance for you.
Iolite Chakra Stone encourages you to break free of others' expectations and embrace your strengths and weaknesses.
Pink Aragonite Chakra Stone brings the energy of compassion to begin to gain more understanding, patience, and tolerance for your weaknesses.
Tiger Calcite Chakra Stone helps you feel safe being vulnerable and having weaknesses. It releases the fear of embarrassment, being wrong, messing up, or not being perfect.
3. Balancing control
Control is fear disguised as safety. Without realizing it, the need to be in control is controlling you and keeping you from enjoying living in the moment. On the other hand, not having self-control can lead you to regrets and negative self-talk. Balancing when to be in control and when to let go of control sends the message of self-love that you deserve to be happy. When the need to be in control becomes too much or too little, it can halt your growth.
Red Spotted Jasper Chakra Stone helps you see and focus on what is in your control so you can bravely decide to make changes.
Infinite Serpentine Chakra Stone eases the need to be in control and connects you to living an abundant life.
Petrified Wood Chakra Stone has the energy of well-being and security, helping ease fears. It enables you to see what is important to you and shrug off the things you can't control.
Practicing these three areas of self-love can take you to a new level in accepting yourself, making it easier to accept and love others. This is just a practice; please remember to offer yourself grace along the way.
Here is one last stone for offering yourself grace.
Grape Agate Chakra Stone increases your capacity to offer and feel grace.
Disclaimer:
The information provided in this guide is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition or illness. Crystal healing is a complementary practice and should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult with a licensed healthcare provider regarding any physical or mental health concerns.