Learn to Love Yourself with 50 Inspiring Self Love Affirmations

Last Updated on June 2, 2022

Love of any kind needs to be nurtured— especially self love. As a practice, self love means to create a positive, loving relationship with yourself. One of the best ways to do so is through self love affirmations.

To do so, it’s important to overcome negative self talk & limiting beliefs. From a young age, women especially are subject to pressure to be perfect and unrealistic standards perpetuated by social media & television. This causes us to focus on our flaws and over time create negative beliefs about ourselves.

It’s so important to overcome these negative beliefs and create a more positive and loving relationship with ourselves. Affirmations for self love are one effective tool you can use, wherever you are in your self-love journey.

The 50 self love affirmations in this post are meant to counteract the negative beliefs that many women hold about themselves. Wherever you are on your self love journey, these affirmations can help you replace your negative beliefs with positive beliefs towards yourself and your life.

What Are Affirmations for Self Love?

Affirmations are short but meaningful statements that help us overcome negative beliefs about ourselves, our lives, and others.

You can use specific affirmations to help with different aspects of your life. Specifically, they can be great for practicing self-love.

Affirmations are meant to be written down or said out loud on a regular basis. At first, saying a statement like “I deserve happiness,” might feel odd, or even uncomfortable.

If you stick with it, though, and continue to practice writing or saying your affirmation, you can actually shift your mindset toward the affirmation. Eventually, you’ll start to accept your affirmation as truth, and it will become a part of your belief system.

By using these affirmations for self love, over time, you shift your entire mindset towards self-love and acceptance.

How Do I Use these Affirmations?

If you like to follow a step by step procedure, here’s how I recommend using these affirmations:

1. Pick 1-3 affirmations from this list (or create your own). As you browse the list, I encourage you to be in touch with the feelings that each affirmation evokes. Some of these might hit harder than others, which might be a sign that one would be a helpful affirmation for you personally.
2. Commit to saying the affirmations out loud in front of a mirror 10 times a day. You can do this all at once, or split it up for different times of the day.
3. It’s often a helpful reminder to write your affirmation on a sticky note and place it on your mirror.
4. Notice what emotions come about when you say your affirmation. Is there anything surprising about how you feel? Has this shifted over the time you’ve practiced your affirmations?
5. Be patient and continue to practice this. Over time, you’ll start to see your beliefs shift.
6. Once you feel like you’ve benefitted from your chosen affirmations, you can continue to practice them or shift to new affirmations with a different focus.

50 Affirmations for Self Love

1. I am true to myself
2. I am worthy of love
3. I deserve happiness
4. I am patient
5. I am kind
6. I am important
7. I love myself
8. I am unique
9. My feelings are valid
10. I am intelligent
11. I am at peace with my past
12. I am a beautiful person
13. I forgive myself
14. I take care of my body and mind
15. My opinions are valid
16. My emotions are valid
17. I take up space
18. I accept myself
19. I respect myself
20. I make a difference in the world
21. I am doing my best
22. I give myself permission to say no
23. I say kind things about myself
24. I am a good friend
25. I am a good partner
26. I know myself
27. I honor my boundaries
28. I enjoy spending time with myself
29. I radiate confidence
30. I am capable of love and affection
31. I am creative
32. I find freedom in vulnerability
33. I make the right choices for myself
34. My best is enough
35. I choose to not apologize for who I am
36. I love my body
37. My body does not define me
38. I nourish myself
39. I deserve the blessings in my life
40. I am grateful to be who I am
41. I trust myself
42. I am creating a life I love
43. I let go of negative self talk
44. I celebrate my own success
45. I am a positive light
46. I bring joy to others
47. I give myself permission to do what is right for me.
48. I have a voice
49. I am proud of my growth
50. I am strong

How Do These Self Love Affirmations Work?

Affirmations are a manifestation technique that allow us to shift our belief systems toward the life we want to live. Many people view manifestation as a tool for material gain & success, but one of the most powerful uses of manifestation is to create powerful change from within.

Using these affirmations can help you manifest change toward a more loving relationship with yourself. In doing so, you’ll not only see a change in your beliefs, but also in your thoughts and actions. You’ll start to act more from a place of self love.

Maybe that means setting healthy boundaries with friends, taking time for self care, or a more in depth understanding of yourself. The beauty of practicing affirmations is that they are so personalized. This allows you to really narrow in on a specific area of improvement and create change.

I hope you’ve found this list of 50 affirmations for self love helpful. Affirmations can help you in so many aspects of life, but self love is a great place to start.

If you’re looking to continue your affirmation practice, be sure to also check out my affirmations for entrepreneurs and affirmations for a good night sleep.

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