Today’s technology invites us more and more to show ourselves in photos, videos and videos. And it’s not always easy when you don’t feel at ease with your appearance, with your body. So here are 8 tips to help you dare to show off and feel more comfortable with your image.

1 – Daring to show yourself means learning to find yourself beautiful

Just because magazines, films and ads have decided that being beautiful means being tall, slim and muscular, with a perfect smile, doesn’t mean it’s true.

Beauty is multiple!

And it’s time to free ourselves from society’s diktats.

Worse still, we think we have to be everything at once. In other words, as soon as we have a single “flaw”, we think that nothing is right anymore… We focus on it.

So, how can we find ourselves beautiful when we don’t correspond to society’s image of beauty?

To do this, we need to change our self-image. First of all, we need to learn to see what we like about ourselves, so that we can give ourselves compliments.

After all, how can we dare to show ourselves off if we spend all our time denigrating our bodies and hiding them?

That’s why I wholeheartedly invite you to find out what you like about yourself, to compliment it, to focus on it and to learn how to enhance what you like.

In other words, stop seeing only your faults and trying to hide them. See only what you like and emphasize it.

2 – Understand that you’re not here to hide.

Daring to show yourself means realizing that your place on this earth is sacred, that you’re not here to make up the numbers, and especially not in your own life.

Indeed, we’re here to exist fully, not to hide.

So don’t let a bad self-image make you think you don’t deserve to be seen.

You do! And you have every right to!

So, how can you feel at ease with your body and stop hiding?

First of all, learn to spend time with yourself in a joyful and caring way.

If you think about it, the little time you spend alone with yourself is often spent criticizing yourself.

So give yourself some real time with yourself, to talk to yourself with kindness, to look at yourself with respect and even with joy!

You’re a beautiful person, in every sense of the word! So come out of the shadows. Dare to show yourself!

3 – Set goals to dare to show yourself

When you have goals in life, when you know where you’re going, your physical posture immediately changes. We sit up straight. Your shoulders are relaxed and your chin is up.

Yes, what we feel has an impact on our body, on the way we move. Have you noticed that when we’re sad, our body curls up in on itself? And when you’re confident, your body straightens up.

That’s why having goals in life, and doing what we have to do to achieve them, gives us much better posture.

So it’s easier to dare to show off.

4 – Daring to show your face means setting an example

Daring to show up means being aware of our differences. We’re all different in every way: physically, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually…

Difference is everywhere, and it’s magical.

In fact, being different brings an enormous amount to the world. Imagine for a moment that we were all the same: the same bodies, the same ways of thinking, the same emotions at the same moment – it would be boring, if not completely sad.

Let’s go one step further: when you dare to show yourself, when you dare to feel at ease with your body and your looks despite your differences, you’re setting an example for everyone.

In effect, you’re sending this precious message to the world: “I dare to show myself. I dare to show my differences.

So you open the way, you show the way.

5 – Practicing showing off

Daring to show off and feel more comfortable with your appearance doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, we need to practice.

And to start with, it’s a good idea to practice on subjects we’re passionate about.

Because passion makes us glow, it even makes us soar. In other words, we’re much more at ease without even realizing it.

In fact, let’s say you need to dare to show off in your job, which you’re not that passionate about, it’s really not that easy.

That’s why I wholeheartedly invite you to practice showing off on subjects you’re passionate about.

Speak out on social networks, for example.

6 – Daring to show off means learning to be proud of yourself

We haven’t learned to be proud of ourselves. Instead, we’ve learned the opposite: to see our faults, our mistakes, and to feel guilty about them.

So how can we feel comfortable with our looks, how can we dare to show ourselves off when we don’t know how to be proud of ourselves? It seems an impossible mission.

That’s why it’s time for a change.

So, how do you learn to be proud of yourself?

I invite you to look into your past and highlight all the things you’ve already accomplished, everything you’ve already been through. What have been your successes, what have you learned from your failures?

In fact, what can you be proud of?

Plenty, I’m sure. Write them down in a notebook so you don’t forget them again, and so you can reread them before you dare to show yourself and doubt your worth.

You are valuable. You have things to say! Exciting things.

Then, on a daily basis, every evening in fact, look back on your day and highlight all the moments you can be proud of: what did you do? What did you learn?

7 – Accepting fear

Daring to show yourself means accepting to be afraid. It’s perfectly normal to be afraid of the way others look at you, to be afraid of judgment and criticism.

But don’t let these fears stop you from showing yourself, from feeling at ease with your body!

It’s important to understand that fear is normal. It will always be there. But make sure you don’t feed it, and thus increase its intensity.

What can you do?

When you’re afraid to show yourself, when you doubt your image, breathe! Repeat to yourself that it’s normal to be afraid. Breathe again. And tell your fear that you’re going to dare anyway.

Let the stage fright rise and go for it!

To help you get started, imagine the pride you’ll feel after doing what you’re about to do.

It’s something I do every day to motivate myself to take action, and it’s truly magical!

8 – Allow yourself imperfections to feel at ease with your image

Daring to show yourself means giving yourself the right to imperfection. It means accepting that we are not perfect.

But that we are constantly evolving, constantly improving.

In fact, feeling at ease with one’s physique and body is something you learn over time. The more we dare to show ourselves, the more comfortable we become.

The more we learn to show our image, our body, the more we learn to love it.

So, yes, there’s an idea of constant improvement, and it can really help us to dare!

That’s why I wholeheartedly invite you not to focus on your imperfections, on your mistakes, but to focus on the things you can improve and learn with time and practice.

I’d like to end this article by sharing with you a positive thought that’s very close to my heart and that I repeat to myself very often: you’re a human being, you don’t have to be perfect, you just have to be you.

Find out more:

I invite you to read these 2 complementary articles:

Discover Feeling beautiful: 7 tips for everyday life (for all ages)
Discover Self-love: the magic routine for loving yourself a little more every day

I recommend this inspiring book:

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Uglies (Boxed Set): Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras

In a futuristic world, teenagers undergo surgery to become ” beautiful “, questioning society’s standards of beauty and the true meaning of happiness.
The situation changes dramatically when Tally is forced to leave her superficial world and comes face to face with people who have deep personalities and meaning to their lives, despite their “ugly” faces. Even the villains take on tangible form and their threat becomes real. From this point on, the story picks up speed and momentum, and the reader is swept along by its intensity. The contrast between these two parts of the book forms its essential articulation, and therein lies the difficulty: how to portray superficiality and casualness from the outset, without giving the impression that the story itself is superficial, and without discouraging the reader from continuing. Westerfeld took the risk, and it paid off. A story worth reading.

Thank you very much for reading this article.

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Take care of yourself