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Get in touch with yourself by writing down your thoughts and writing about events in your life. This introspection will be therapeutic and get you to be comfortable with yourself.  Write down anything and everything you want. You can't write anything that's wrong. Write the first thing that comes to your head. Write your most personal thoughts and ideas. Don't be self-conscious about what you write. You're the only one that will ever see it. Write about yourself. Get to know your thoughts and actions more intimately. Instead of going through life without thinking about what you do, be conscious of your actions and why you do them. If you don't like what you do and think, you'll learn that about yourself. You'll also find areas of yourself that you love! List things you like and things you don't like about yourself. For every entry, write a way to keep doing the positive or a way to improve the negative. One of the biggest challenges to being yourself is lingering negative thoughts. These negative thoughts are almost always baseless and self-destructive. Once you're aware of your negative thoughts you can overcome them. Work on replacing them with positive thoughts!  Write down you negative thoughts as they happen. Once they're written down, you can work on changing them. Analyze those negative thoughts. Why are you having them? Are they even true? Are there any counter-examples? Are they productive or destructive? Do you fixate on those thoughts? Answer these questions and more about every negative thought you have. Before long, you'll start to realize how absurd and counterproductive your negative thoughts are. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones. Instead of "I'm always left out of conversations," think "I had a great conversation earlier" or "I had all these interesting and funny things to say, but I chose not to." Instead of "Nobody thinks I'm clever" think of that one time you made a great pun and everybody cracked up. Make a habit of focusing on the positive. Laugh at yourself. Laughter really is the best medicine. Once you can identify your negative thoughts, you'll start to realize how baseless they are. After a while, those thoughts can be funny. Once you can laugh at your negative thoughts, you've conquered them. Actively seek new relationships and work on building your current relationships. Initiate meet ups with friends or strangers. Finally, reflect on your relationships and your communication skills and shortcomings. Notice patterns in the people you choose to hang out with, and seek more people like that. Take note of the way you talk and interact, and work on improving that.  If you prefer people who do active things with you like skiing or bowling, that means you're probably an active person too. Keep having active social meetings. If you have problems maintaining relationships or starting conversation, practice those skills with friends. take social skills classes. These are often offered at local adult education centers, and they can be enormously beneficial. Play to your strengths. If you find people laughing at your jokes often, have your communication center around jokes. Ask your friends about yourself. Have an honest conversation with them about your personality. Ask what you can improve on and what you're already good at. One of the best ways to learn about yourself is through other people. Over time, you get socialized to be someone you're not. This happens to everyone. But when you're young, social norms haven't instantiated themselves on you. Remember what's it's like to be young and carefree again, and channel that pure version of yourself in social scenarios.  Within reason, try acting on impulse. Your intuitive actions are more likely to represent your true self rather than your socialized self. Don't worry about being judged. Just do what you want and forget the haters. Appreciate the moment. Don't dwell on the past or focus on the future. Love each moment and get caught up in the present. When you were young, you didn't care what other people thought. You listened to the music you wanted, you read what you wanted, you said what you wanted, and you did what you wanted. Try to recapture that mentality. Read old books you used to like or do things you used to like as a kid. Do cartwheels or build a sandcastle!

summary: Keep a journal. Be conscious of your thoughts. Build positive relationships and learn about yourself through others. Get in touch with your younger self.


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Gently direct your hair back to its normal position, carefully creating a natural part. Finger-comb the side sections down, then comb the top sections over. Be careful not to disturb the natural curl pattern. Slowly bend over, letting your hair fall forward. While your head is upside down, finger comb through your hair once more, separating out the section at the nape of the head so it doesn’t dry bunched up. Your hair should still be dripping wet from rinsing out some of the conditioner, so make sure to either flip your hair in the shower or over a towel. You want your hair to be dripping wet when you use the deva curl. While your hair is still flipped over, squeeze 2 or 3 pumps of gel into your hands and rub them together so the gel is evenly distributed. Gently apply the gel to your hair in sections until all of your hair is completely covered. Use your hands to hold and scrunch the hair, pressing out some excess water and forming natural curls. Add more gel if your hair absorbs the first round quickly. Keep gently scrunching handfuls of hair in 10-second increments until you’ve gone over your whole head. If you chose to leave most of the conditioner in your hair, the water you squeeze out will be a milky white.

summary: Finger-comb your hair in the direction it naturally falls. Lean forward and carefully flip your hair over your head. Smooth 2-3 pumps of Deva styling gel over your hair. Scrunch the ends of your hair up to your roots and hold for 10 seconds.


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The best paper to use for this is scrapbooking paper or cardstock. Construction paper or origami paper will work too, but your garland won't be as durable.  Try getting two to three different colors or shades. For example, you could have a light blue, a medium blue, and a dark blue.  Try getting some patterned paper. For example, half of your shapes can be bright blue, and the other half of your shapes can be white with bright green polka-dots or stripes. Scrapbooking punches work just like regular hole punches, except that they come in many different shapes and sizes. They come in circles, hearts, squares, stars, and even snowflakes. You can buy scrapbooking punches in the scrapbook section of an arts and crafts store. You can also find them online.  You can get just one scrapbooking punch and make all of your shapes the same size. You can also get two differently sized punches. For example, you can get a 1.5 inch (3.81 centimeters) circle punch and a 3.5 inch (8.89 centimeters) circle punch. This will give your garland some variety.  If you can't find a scrapbooking punch, you can cut circles out using a circle cutter. They can be as far apart or as close together as you want. Make sure that you have about 12 inches (30.48 centimeters) of blank space at the end of your garland, or you won't be able to hang it up later. Depending on how much glue you used, this can take anywhere from a couple of hours to a day.
summary: Get some colorful paper. Get some scrapbooking punches. Repeat the process with the rest of the shapes. Allow the glue to dry before hanging your garland.