HOW TO: Get To Know Yourself

We all get a little lost from time to time.

Here are 5 quick and easy ways to tune out the negative inner voices and master quarantine by coming out as a stronger person.

1. Learn how to trick your body into a state of confidence.

Feeling stressed? Let your hormones come to the rescue!

Your body produces "happy hormones" all the time. Learning how to produce them through small actions and thoughts can really change a stressful moment into a one of ultimate power.

The Smiling Hack: Three powerhouse happy chemicals are released in the body every time you genuinely smile - dopamine, endorphins and serotonin.

Though it's never good idea to fake happiness, choosing to smile more can help your brain get on the good side of its hormones; which may lead to you being able to process your thoughts and emotions with the aid your body's powerhouse chemical systems!

The Hugging Hack: Ever feel that cuddly and warm sensation after hugging someone you genuinely love? Yeah, there's a hormone for that.

Coming into close contact with someone is known to produce the hormone Oxytocin, which is also been linked to be produced in couples that have stronger love and gratitude in their relationship.

In this way, holding someone's hand or giving a good hug really can change and alter mental health on a chemical level. Give it a try and notice how you feel afterwards.

2. Learn to notice your own body language.

Ever snap a selfie, take one look at it and realize that you look very uncomfortable in your own skin? That is because the body is amazing at showing our inner insecurities out on the surface through tight or tense body language.

On the other hand, learning to use your own body language to your advantage is how you learn to catch yourself in states of insecrutiy and conquer it.

When someone is practicing harmful thinking, they are more likely to tighten their body language, facial muscles and draw their arms closer in to their body.

When someone is practicing positive and confident mental health, their body language opens up like a flower - and it's easier to find great ease and flow.

Notice what triggers you to tighten your body and jot those down in your phones notes as triggers. Start to notice your patterns and actively work on what your body is telling you makes it feel insecure.

3. Take blame, guilt and shame and toss it to the side.

We all make mistakes.

However, someone who masters self-development knows that your mistakes don't define you as a person.

There is a difference between self-development and belittling yourself. Read that again.

One helps you grow, the other is just you wasting your own time insulting yourself.

Learn to leave the self-insults at home when stepping out into the world and living your life. Learn and live. Don't hate on yourself.

Hate doesn't develop the world, love does. The same goes for yourself.

4. Treat yourself like the main character in the movie, not an extra.

Don't wait for life to happen, create moments. Reach for what you want. Notice small universal messages and conquer what they are asking. Take matters into your own hands. Don't wait to self-devlop by accident, truly define what you wish to be and make it happen.

Make small micro-lists using tools like MeisterTask to start organizing what you want in life.

5. Social Media is a representation of human life, not the truth.

If you ever find yourself scrolling your feeds on social media, comparing yourself to every image you pass - it's time to take a break and do a social media detox.

Take a 48 hour detox to start. Every time you feel that itch to hop onto your feeds, take out your phone notes and answer these following questions:

A. What is my intention behind posting and sharing my life?

B. In a percentage, 0% being the least and 100% being the most, how honest am I in representing myself on social media?

C. In what ways does social media make me a stronger person?

Check your intentions behind posting and once you have those intentions defined in your head, own it. Post strong, post real and then you will stop comparing yourself to how well others are doing on their feed because you will be living, posting and expressing in a state of self-empowerment.

Remember that others only show the best of themselves on social media. Don't compare YOUR behind-the-scenes edits to THEIR movie reel, because you'll always end up coming up short. Shift your perspective and start owning your raw inner and outer power.

Time moves by quickly. Make sure you're taking time to dedicate to your real spirit instead of your societal grind.