The difference that a statement can make in the life of a man, woman, or child is nothing short of phenomenal.

Change your mind - change your life!

Positive Self Esteem

Positive Self Esteem is different from high self esteem. A positive self evaluation will lead to confidence and the deeply held belief that you are able to deal with the challenges that life presents. Positive self worth leads you to believe that you are worthy of experiencing happiness. Some people are blessed with an early childhood that instills the thought habits and patters that lead to a healthy view of one's self. Others are not so fortunate. Some struggle through life with low self esteem or a high self esteem that is not based in reality.

Self esteem is directly related to but not the same as self confidence and self respect. Positive self esteem spring from the depths of our soul where we have conversations with our selves. Our inner voice is a reflection of the state of our self assessment. The inner voice comes from both conscious and subconscious memories of all the times that we have succeeded or failed, the times when we have felt good about ourselves or bad. When the balance of these conversations tips in the direction of the negative the critical negative voice starts to gain traction and before too long a low level self esteem is the result.

Everyone has an inner critic. People who lack positive self esteem simply have a meaner, nastier, and more persistent critic. People who enjoy the benefits of positive self esteem are able to solve problems rather than just worrying about them. They know how to deal with fear and the ability to analyze reasonable risk and take those risks. Just about every aspect of life is affected by self esteem.

Developing Your Positive Self Esteem

Character strengths are just like any other skill or ability - they get better with exercise. You can learn to manage your mind and your thoughts in such a way as to produce a healthy level of positive self esteem. Self esteem comes from doing things - being active. Small victories can bring big feelings. So here are some things you can do to help establish and develop your positive self esteem:

  • Smile
  • Invest time in personal development
  • Think positively
  • Speak positively
  • Associate with positive people
  • To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

    - Denis Waitley
  • Consciously reject thoughts and statements that attack your self worth
  • Media is very negative (bad news sells) be aware!
  • Remember that other people's perception of you isn't the truth. It is futile to base your self worth on someone's faulty opinion
  • Be aware of your 'self-talk'. When it becomes negative reject it and move on.
  • Learn something new - anything, a language, a skill, an instrument, whatever.
  • Take calculated risks. Risk taking builds confidence which will boost your self esteem
  • Set and achieve some goals
  • Feeling Good and Positive Self Esteem

    One of the most powerful things you can do is let go of the past and all the emotions that are attached to it. Accepting yourself as you are will enable you to change your present. The past is gone there is nothing you can do about it. Being grateful for what you have in the present disarms all those angry feelings. Anger promises that it will protect you and help you get all the things you think you're missing from your life - but anger lies. The way to live securely and get the things you want is to let anger go otherwise it will only hurt you and stunt your growth.

    Feeling good about yourself means accepting all your shortcomings, faults, and idiosyncrasies, just as you are. Feeling good means changing your focus from your failures and unhappy experiences to your successes and accomplishments. You can be the person you want to be, you can rebuild your life, you can create the lifestyle you dream of.

    The Path to Positive Self Esteem

    Inner Power

    Strength of character, inner power and personal value comes from the mind. The inner person, our soul & spirit, reside primarily in the mind. What goes on in the mind determines our level of self esteem, our confidence and our performance out there in the world. In order to enjoy the benefits of strength of character and inner power we need to change what goes on in the mind.

    Knowledge

    Positive self esteem will grow when we acquire the knowledge that directs us to manage our minds and change them in ways that are designed to produce positive, healthy thought habits.

    Confidence

    Positive self esteem will be yours when you feel confident and positive about yourself. Confidence happens when we experience success. So you need to put yourself in the way of success. Set goals, even small ones, and achieve them. Once you have attained a few small goals set some more, then set some bigger more challenging goals. This creates a self perpetuating cycle of success that breeds confidence. And of course when you feel confident your self esteem will be in step with it.

    Intuition

    Over time as you experience both successes and failures in life your mind develops a sense of intuition. Some call it wisdom. This sense will lead you to a positive self esteem. It will help you make the right decisions and help you determine the right path to take.

    The Root of Positive Self Esteem

    If you noticed the past to positive self esteem leads from the inside out. If the inside isn't where it needs to be to create positive self esteem nothing else you do will matter much. Old thought habits and negative self talk will reassert themselves and make their presence felt. So how exactly do you change the mind? How do you reprogram you thought patterns? How do you create new thought habits?

    Modern science and research as produced a technology that you can use to reprogram your mind very quickly and very effectively. Positive self esteem is only a step away.

    What modern science has discovered is an easy way to apply brainwave entrainment to the human mind. This technology puts your mind in a state where it is very receptive to the messages it hears. The messages you send to your brain are called affirmations. Carefully crafted affirmations applied to your subconscious mind and accepted by it will create the new life you want almost automatically.

    All you have to do is listen.

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