It is challenging to practice self-love when you’re in a hot and heavy relationship with negativity. If that’s all you’re used to, it can feel hard being positive. But it would be best if you attempted or negativity will be nothing but a brick wall that blocks self-love. The self-love negativity relationship seldom works.

It’s quite difficult to practice loving yourself if you have a crummy attitude about life, yourself, or both. If you are ready and willing to love yourself more, you must try your hardest to replace negative thoughts with positive ones. Are you cringing reading this? Because I cringed slightly writing this, but it’s the truth. 

I love myself more than I ever have, and I’m also more positive than ever before. Coincidence? I think not. Did little grey men erase my memory one fateful night and whisk me away to Planet Self Love? It’s a possibility. If so, I’m super thankful to the greys for assisting me on this journey of self-love. 

I wholeheartedly believe that tackling a negative mindset head-on is a crucial part of the journey of self-love.

Negativity could easily pose similar to that charming and stealthy bad boy or man-eater in your life. We all know about the kind of lovers that are so easy to give into but always leave you feeling like garbage. Self-love can appear as that lovely person with a warm smile whom you typically ignore because they’re too nice. 

Yet if you gave that lovely person with the warm smile a chance, it could be a rewarding decision. You could find someone who treats you right and genuinely cares about your feelings. What the hell is that sh*t? Mindblowing, I know. 

When you give self-love a try, your negative bad boy or girl won’t stand a chance. They’ll no longer fit in your life. That’s because you’ve changed by making an effort to focus more on self-love, and less on things that don’t support it.

Self-love and negativity are like space travel and lousy technology 

Self-love and negativity don’t mesh well together in a similar fashion to how Cher in Clueless didn’t think that Tai and Josh meshed well. That reference might’ve dated me. I don’t have much to say about that other than, “it’s a classic movie that everyone should watch.” As if! 

Read my article, Steps To Fight Negativity, which goes further into depth on how to combat negativity like a sword-wielding samurai or some bada** chick kickboxing in the sunset.

View my other article, Steps To Breed Negativity, if you enjoy being miserable and don’t want to start putting forth the effort to change. Hostile, rabid raccoons who lurk the mean neighboorhood streets during the day support you. I think I saw one wearing a bandana the other day.

Do you think it’s necessary to focus on reducing a negative state of mind to practice better self-love?