An Exercise in Self-Acceptance

If you’re feeling down about yourself and unappreciated try the following NLP exercise. It’s a simple but effective way to help you regain a sense of self-acceptance, self-love and self-respect.

Close your eyes and imagine a place where you can feel pleasure and enjoyment. Having found that place in your mind, identify a person who at some point in your life has cared about you intensely, even if only for a few moments.

Think about that person, how they would be feeling, what their reasons are for loving you and what this love is like.

Now imagine yourself floating out of your own body and into the body of that person who loves and deeply appreciates you and see yourself through their eyes, from their point of view.

What does this person see that makes them love and care for you? What is it they value and appreciate about you? How do they feel about you inside?

Now, keeping that feeling of love, step back inside your own body. Fully experience and appreciate that love, but now feeling it inside yourself. Let this feeling of complete love and self-acceptance radiate through your body.