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Ready to make real, big changes in your life this year? I AM! If you are ready to start now keep reading for the straightforward guide to transforming your life. This is the glow up guide to transform your life.
Ready to drop the guilt, anxiety, habits, mindset and all the other things that are holding you back? If you answered yes, this guide is for you!
“Glowing up” and transforming yourself completely requires a mind, body and soul transformation.
What is a glow up?
Glowing up is a newer term, but the concept has been around forever. You know the typical 2000s story line. Girl gets a makeover and suddenly her life is transformed.
Well, this is leaving that b.s concept behind and making changes deeper than skin level. Empower yourself and find your own power in life. YOU can make big changes.
“A Glow Up is a mental, physical, and emotional transformation for the better. Glow Ups can be both natural or planned.”
Urban Dictionary’s Definition
Firstly, you need to make changes in every aspect of your life for a real transformation. If you change your look and have a physical glow up but don’t work on your mindset, mental and spiritual aspects in your life, the physical won’t make you any happier.
Now to the good stuff!
Guide to transforming your life, Glow up 2022:
Body: Physical Transformation
When you look good, you feel good. Feeling confident in your looks is an important aspect of transforming your life.
Small changes can make a big difference in changing the way you feel about yourself and your appearance.
Simple things you can do to transform your look.
First, ask yourself “What makes me feel my best and most attractive?” Do you feel your best when you have painted nails or your hair done a certain way? Start putting more time into the things that make you feel beautiful.
This also starts from the inside out- take care of your body and health -take vitamins, adequate protein, enough water, stretching, and exercise.
Ideas for transforming your look in a natural way:
Create a pampering beauty regimen: (do what feels good for you and makes sense in your life)
- hair mask once a week
- whiten teeth (at home whitening strips and whitening toothpaste are an easy way to do this)
- Use an eyelash growth serum and lash lift (I do my own at home lash lift which I personally love, but that will depend on how comfortable you are with putting chemicals near your eyes-which I am not about to recommend so proceed at your own risk 😉 but you CAN get it done at a salon too)
- I use an eyelash growth serum from amazon, which I was skeptical about but IT WORKS SO WELL!
- Even if you don’t like wearing makeup, emphasizing your eyes with a little mascara and/or eyeliner can make a huge difference in making you look awake and pretty with minimal effort
- groomed eyebrows- pluck your eyebrows and groom them to whatever suits your natural shape
- manicured nails- I personally love nail polish but even if you don’t like painted nails you can moisturize and clean up your cuticles and shape your nails for a clean, simple look.
Transform Your Mind
A true transformation is much deeper than outer appearances. In order to really have a “glow up” and transform your life, you’ll need to work on your mindset and mentally transform as well.
This might include, leaving things that don’t serve your best interest, developing a more positive mindset, working on your subconscious beliefs and eliminating self-sabotage.
In order to start doing the inner work and transforming your mindset, you’ll need to come to terms and realize what things you need to work on. Things that hold us back and self-sabotaging behaviours are often completely overlooked because they live deep in the subconscious mind.
You can begin the process of diving deeper into your beliefs and interpretation of the world by doing shadow work. If you are unfamiliar with what shadow work is you can read more on it here, in this post.
Essentially, the “shadow” is part of you that develops in the subconscious mind, especially throughout your childhood. You learn certain beliefs from the experiences you have in your life and those get stored in your subconscious mind, later influencing how you feel about yourself and interpret the world around you.
The term shadow work may sound a bit weird or scary, but it doesn’t have to be! You can start doing shadow work by using journal prompts and answering completely honestly, then you can interpret and reflect on your answers to figure out where your beliefs come from and how they cause you to interact with your physical world.
I have created this shadow work journal with prompts that you can do at your own pace to start reflecting and understanding your shadow. In order to glow up and transform your life you have to be willing to do the work, even if it’s not always fun.
It sounds cliche but your mindset really is everything. Your mind has the power to make, or break you. It can be difficult, trust me I know, but mastering your thoughts and emotions is a game changer in how you live your life and the pursuit of true happiness in life.
Mastering your emotions and thoughts is a superpower that you can develop. It takes some hard work and determination, but once you push through and don’t give up you will reap the benefits of creating a life you LOVE.
Soul/ Spirituality
Figure out what is important to you and why. Do some soul searching and discover what your purpose is and find passion for living in that. I personally think that this reality we live in can’t possibly be all there is. There has to be a deeper meaning to all of this.
Dig deep, it can be uncomfortable and awkward but you are the only one who can make changes in your life and find your WHY.
Finding meaning in life will be personal and different for every person. Don’t judge yourself or compare what you find meaning in to someone else’s purpose.
For me, finding connection to something greater than the physical, material world has helped me immensely. My depression and anxiety have diminished and I feel a zest for life that was missing before. If it can help me, it can help you to!
Final Thoughts
There we have it, the glow up guide to transform your life! A true glow up involves leveling up in all aspects of your life, external and more importantly internally so you can start living your ideal life.
I hope you found some inspiration on how to transform your life. Come back for more on inspiration, mindset, law of attraction, manifestation, mindfulness and more! Let’s create a life we love together.
Feel free to leave any suggestions or insights below!
Recommended Reading
How to Develop and Maintain a Positive Mindset
Guide to Taking Back Control of Your Life Fast
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