SLE #2

With all the toxicity in the world, it’s easy to get consumed by negativity, making it important that we catch those moments before they take over. Thus bringing today’s Self Love Entry where I will be speaking on positivity and self empowerment.

Positivity: The practice of being or tendency to be positive or optimistic in attitude.

Self empowerment: Taking control of his or her life, in addition to viewing trials they face in life in a positive way; furthermore building self-esteem and confidence, in hope to build success and a sense of true empowerment in one's mental, physical, and spirit. 

Why are these terms important?

Being or practicing positivity helps us cope more easily with our daily affairs, bringing us optimism; which makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking. Adopting this in your life will bring constructive changes, making you a happier, brighter, and more successful person; along with building motivation, self esteem, better health, and improved relations. Train yourself to not only have a positive attitude, but also express it completely.

Practicing self-empowerment fosters beliefs that promote positive mental behavior, by creating affirmations which will help you achieve success in anything you work to achieve. Thus, becoming one of many tools to promote strong mental health. Practicing empowerment and change within ourselves can ultimately lead to the increased sense of personal values and self worth. There are different narratives of empowerment: Social, educational, economic, political, and psychological; which collectively influence our thoughts, fundamentals, and existence. We must take action to narrate and groom our mind and spirit to advocate the positivity we seek, which again comes with practice.

Now how would you practice these?

Freeing two birds with one key, ill list specific ways that i found online and in books:

• Love yourself (Hella Obvious lol yet we working on it)
• Exercise 
• Healthy Eating (again i'm not a zoologist, so i can’t give you nutrition advice)
• Don't be afraid of failure.
• Surround yourself with positivity 
  • This one is hella important and I feel this spiritually. Now i'm not saying every single thing you set up for yourself has to be 1000% positivity, and totally avoiding every ounce of negativity on the planet,  that's outlandish and can eventually cause a false narrative of reality which will set you up to failure.
  • You will encounter negativity in your life, and its something you can’t always avoid; but it's how you handle the negativity which is where positivity comes in play. Seek positivity as far as avoiding the true toxins of reality: Toxic friends, habits, lifestyle, relationships, behavior, your media,etc. If you have nothing but negativity on your media, in your friendships, your partners, how you think about yourself and treat yourself, all that trash shit, of course you’re going to build a negative spirit which will consume you. You gotta change that up man. Build supportive relationships with you, your friends, your partners. Stop investing in all the negative media, reading the comments, arguing with random twitter people; get it together, you're better than that. And beautiful. Create internal and external love for yourself that you deserve. All that negative shit can get kicked in the nuts, because you’ll be able to adjust to it way better and have a positive outlook on life. 
• Practice Gratitude
• Keep a gratitude journal 
• Open yourself up to humor
• Practice positive self-talk
• Identify your areas of negativity 
• Start everyday on a positivity note.

Now there are obviously hella ways you can go about being positive, yet i wanted to drop the ones i’ve come across and actually practice myself.

All I want is for you to grow and become the best person you can be, because you owe yourself that; and I 100% believe in yo cool ass.

Stay beautiful, stay safe, stay blessed.

Links to information I've discovered is below if you want a deeper read.