Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness

by Vex King

Stop trying to impress people. Impress yourself. Stretch yourself. Test yourself. Be the best version of you that you can be.

It’s important to recognize that it’s not unjust to let go of those who show no concern for you.

Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing you deserve better, and then working towards it. The balance between mindset and action will enable you to vibrate higher. We’ll explore this further in the next few chapters.

The Universe responds to your vibration. It’ll return whatever energy you put out.

‘We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our daily environment.’

Change the way you think, feel, speak and act, and you begin to change your world.

Surround yourself with people who are vibin’ higher than you. Be around people who are feeling better than you are. Energy is contagious.

But a 2003 study by Simone Schnall and James Laird showed that if you fake a smile, you can actually trick your brain into thinking you’re happy by releasing feel-good hormones called endorphins.6

Drama is for TV, not for real life. Don’t play a part in someone else’s episode in which they’re the only star.

Ignoring negative emotions is like keeping poison in your system. Learn to understand everything that you feel. The aim isn’t to force positive thoughts, but to transform the negative ones into something healthier, so you can feel better.

Every second you spend thinking about the next moment, you avoid embracing the present. Ensure your life isn’t lived entirely in your head.

You can’t tell someone that their feelings are invalid.

Nevertheless, many of the things you’ve achieved today are things you dreamed about in the past. You just don’t notice them in the moment they happen.

Someone once said that a tiger doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.

Some of the best changes in life result from the most painful experiences. We need to experience low points in our life in order to gain the wisdom, strength and knowledge we need to appreciate the high points.

Everything is connected. If something tragic has happened in your past, think of something good that’s happened recently – they’re linked.

That first event somehow created different choices in you, which led to you experiencing something good.