Practice:Self Acceptance

Self Acceptance.

Self acceptance means that you accept yourself for who you really are, you accept how you look and you are happy with yourself, you are confident and you could be highly assertive. Self acceptance includes a lot of principles like: Growth and self confidence, it’s all about self respect, self assurance, self knowledge and self interest. All of the above that is mentioned builds to self acceptance which builds self foundation for one. However self acceptance goes beyond the physical looks. It’s about accepting your flaws and once you know what your flaws are, you can look beyond them and find a way to correct them. People find it intricate to allow them to be who they are. Living in a new-fangled diverse society we tend to evaluate ourselves to our friends, our family members or the people around us and the people that we meet in life. We start to ask ourselves and wonder 'why couldn't I look like that person? Why does she dress nicer than me? Why can't I be like her? Why can’t I have what she has' you become self conscience because you feel that you are not good enough, then you start to feel like you don't fit in. We forget the simplest principles of life and how to live life and take pleasure in it without being hesitant towards ourselves. We become people that we are not just so sometimes we can fit in, so we can build our own 'confidence’ that best suits us, and we portray an image that we want other people to see and that they will love. “Self acceptance is about correcting your flaws, it is imperative to correct them no matter how long it takes and without acceptance of judgment from any external factor. Once the good has been spotted, it is very important to be humble about it and find another direction to develop” Thula Nkumane. Self acceptance is not the simplest thing, we lose self esteem because of how we are treated by the people around us, BUT you always have a choice of who you let in your life and only you allow the people around you to treat you the way that you want them to. Self acceptance doesn't mean you don't accept yourself physically, but how you are personally.

These are some of the points that build to self acceptance:

1.	 Learn to love yourself, which is the most important principle of life. 2.	Respect yourself. 3.	Be yourself. 4.	Once you learn that, you will learn to accept yourself, how you look and how you are as a person. 5.	 Be around people that make you feel good about yourself. 6.	Be with people that add value to your life. 7.	 Know that you are unique and that you are special in every way. 8.	Be proud of who you are. 9.	Know that you are Gods image. 10.	Have self direction. 11.	Commit yourself to whatever path you take in life. 12.	Soon as you accept reality, then you can face any challenges which you may come across.