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If you don’t feel good about yourself, others will. They perceive above all the image that one gives of oneself. When we don’t love ourselves, others don’t love us either. Here are 3 sophrology exercises to (re) learn to love yourself.
Exercise # 1: The mirror
We start with a self-visualization exercise that intensifies and refines the perception of our body diagram.
- Upright, you relax your muscles from head to toe by closing your eyes. Then, while inhaling, you raise your hands while extending your arms above your head.
- When exhaling, we lower our hands very gently, palms turned towards their body, imagining that our hands are a mirror.
- Always with my eyes closed, we try to see what our mirror reflects by passing our hands in front of his face, his neck, his chest, his belly. The arms are completely released along the body.
- We end with a positive statement: we say to ourselves that we love ourselves as we are, for example.
Exercise # 2: Recognition
Self-denigration is poison. Recognition of his qualities is the antidote.
- We make the list everything we love about home. We recognize its qualities, it is important for self-esteem. For example his patience, his altruism, his kindness.
- We also make the list of all our past successes. Whether they are personal, professional, or even the improvement of his state of health.
- We keep preciously this list and we mentally repeat, or better aloud, his qualities and his victories by imbibing this list.
Exercise # 3: The heartwarming memory
You come into contact with yourself by placing a hand on your heart. We let come to ourselves the image of a pleasant memory, during which we felt loved, protected, supported. It may be the memory of a friend who cheered us up on a depressed evening, a parent who consoled us, hugged us, a lover who particularly pampered us.
- We find all the sensations linked to this evocation in every detail.
- We feel the confidence, the well-being that emanate from this memory and we appropriate this feeling of esteem and affection. We transmit it to ourselves, we let it flow in us, warm us up.
