6 reasons why self-care isnt selfish

If you are someone who keeps up to date with my blog posts, you’ll notice this is another blog post related to self-care I didn’t want to write one massive blog post which goes on forever so I’ve split it into two separate posts. The last blog post which was about self- care was about what actually is self-care and self-love.

I think we live in a society where we get the difference between actually classing self – care as being selfish and self-care being looking after yourself. I think there is a line between self-care being classed as selfish and not.

I generally think one of the reasons why we think self-care is classed as selfish is because you look back a few decades back there wasn’t really anything classed as self-care then because they would of classed it as selfish because then there were more important things in life and everyone in the family had there specific roles.

The 6 reasons why self-care isnt selfish

1. The way you act has an impact on everyone around us.

Remember how we feel and act has an impact on everyone around us, if we arnt very happy and energetic then we will be putting our feelings onto the people around us which will portray as negative. If your feeling happy and positive you will portray them feelings onto the people around you meaning the people around you will be happier.

2. You are allow yourself to become more authentic.

By allowing yourself to become more authentic you are giving yourself that bit of time of each day as soon as you start to do this, this means you are becoming more authentic. There is so much about ourselves that we don’t already know you might think you know everything but you don’t we discover more and more about ourselves everyday and this is how we get to know ourselves better.

3. It helps you to move from past to present.

What do I mean by it helps you to move from past to present ? If you always live in the past you will not be able to move forward which means as a result your just existing. So by moving forward to the present day you can have a clearer picture of everything and actually be living and being present in the day.

4. Finding your purpose in life

I think with everything in life you need to find the purpose of it and that’s just the same with life. So how do you find your purpose ? Ask yourself these few questions and you will start to discover your purpose.

• Why was you put on this earth ?
• What are your strengths and weaknesses ?
• What let me this very moment ?
• What are you going to do with your life ?
• Who do you need in your life ?

By finding out what your purpose is in life it will help you discover more things about yourself that you didn’t already know which is actually a way of practicing self-love and self-care.

5. Reminding yourself of your worth

Reminding yourself of your worth is an important factor in taking care of yourself. It’s important to look after yourself without always having them feelings of guilt hanging over you. You need to do what is best for you this is not selfish if we was never to take care of ourselves we would be depriving ourselves of that love for ourselves.

6. Accepting the bad days

One of the most important things when you try and practice self-care is that first of all you need to ask that some days you will have bad days where you are in a complete slump and you don’t know how to get out of it.

This is where self-care comes into it because you need to take a step back and be kind to yourself, give yourself time to just be in the moment and take a step back from reality.

We need to acknowledge that we have bad days it’s how we come back from them with is important and the key to that is self-care look after yourself !!

There are several more different reasons why self-care isn’t selfish and I could go on forever about it. The most important message I want you to take away from this blog post is that remember to take time for yourself and look after yourself because you are as important as everyone else around you !!

Do you practice self-care ? Do you think self-care is selfish?

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