With love - Love yourself, you are amazing!

Way too many people look into their mirrors and see someone they are not happy with.
They don't even question it though. For many not liking yourself is something  natural.
They say things like 'Noone is actually happy with themselves' and they totally believe it.
But why is that? When did we start to become so critical with the way we look or even are?
 I want to tell you that I do not really believe in things like people who were born with a
bad character or born with an ugly face. Especially optical matters are things our society
 has created. The media keeps telling us we are not good enough on a daily basis.
Our relatives and other people we know see this and instantly believe it, because
 if the media says it, it obviously has to be true *sarcasm* and then they tell us why
we aren’t good enough. And on and on goes a huge vicious circle of in my opinion
really mean and bad psychological tricks only to make big money by selling products
or services.

Also no one was born with a bad character. Every child loves appreciation and love,
if it doesn't get it the child is basically lost. Often the child only gets its appreciation
when doing criminal things because they are surrounded by a certain group of people.
 I believe that there are way too little means to create happy and healthy people
compared to the billions of cash invested in companies that are simply there to
make more cash. I think it's totally sad. Even though we have so much we feel unhappy.
I can promise you that many poor people are probably happier without all the stuff
we are surrounded by (Media, technical progress, daily comforts). They are far closer
to life than we are.

We constantly get told that we have to be better, prettier and more intelligent. Only
very little parts of the media tell us for once that we are actually good enough the way
we are. That we don't need the newest car, a new nose or the newest lipstick in order
to be good enough. I really hope that one day the media will tell us that we actually
are good enough the way we are. That we don't have to change anything about ourselves
and just live our lives in acceptance rather than in the endless search for happiness
and perfection.

The good thing is that you can start by yourself to tell yourself you are good enough.
You can actually yourself look into the mirror and instead of pointing out your
blemishes just tell yourself that you are okay the way you are. You can then tell
 yourself what you like about yourself. See. This is so important because you will
never get rid of you. You will always have yourself by your side so you really want to
befriend that person. You wouldn't tell your friend that she is ugly or if she tells you
how she looks you wouldn't tell her "Oh my god! Did you see your bum? Do you really
want to leave the house with that? And your hair is awful today" I think your friend
will probably no longer stay your friend.

The same thing counts for you. If you keep telling yourself how great you are you
will start to feel great because treating yourself well leads to feeling better.
 I you keep telling yourself how awful you are you will probably not end up very happy.
Just stop telling yourself your blemishes. Talk to yourself like you would talk to a friend.
Instead of telling yourself "Ew that spot ruins my whole face" tell yourself "Well it's there
now and I'm just putting some make up on. I'm great anyways" Just talk positively to
yourself and you will notice how better you feel about yourself.

So start pointing out what’s good about you instead of what's bad -
because you are amazing! :)
Never forget that.

xo Cory