Self Esteem Exercises and Affirmations for Radical Success

Self Esteem Exercises, Affirmations and Success Success!

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!

Self Esteem Exercises

Self esteem exercises are designed with the intention of exercising your mind and giving it the strength, endurance, and health it deserves. Your body needs exercise and proper nutrition to stay healthy and whole, so does your mind. The part of your mind that manages your self esteem needs to be taken care of with as much diligence as your body does.

A weak, sickly, negative thinking mind inside a healthy strong body is an abnormality. The body and mind are a unit. If one is healthy and strong, so should the other. If one deserves attention, care, and discipline so does the other. Only you know where you level of self esteem is, whether it is healthy or not. Only you can decide whether self esteem exercises are for you.

Self esteem is simply what you believe your value and worth is. When you wake up in the morning and your thoughts about yourself are predominantly negative, you will benefit from doing some self esteem exercises and activities.

What should Self Esteem Exercises Focus on?

Self esteem exercises should focus on three key areas:

Self Esteem Exercises to Become Aware

Becoming aware of your thoughts may seem like a foolish exercise. When you are conscious you are awake, alert, and most importantly, aware of your own thoughts aren't you? If anyone should know your thoughts, it's you, right? Well sort of. You see, most of what you think is a habit. 95% of what you think today, you thought yesterday. Most of what you think tomorrow you will have thought about today.

Does that come as a surprise? That's because you are, for the most part, oblivious to what you are thinking. You need to become aware of what is going on in your mind. When you do this exercise you will be surprised at how negative your thought habits really are. Once you discover that a change needs to be made you can move on to the next step...

Self Esteem Exercises to Help You Choose

To make a choice is to make a decision. To choose to exercise your self esteem muscle is to decide to be discriminating about what thoughts are allowed to percolate in the recesses of your consciousness. When you do do self esteem exercises that help you become aware of your thoughts, you are in the position to choose the thoughts that will support you, energize you, and build you up.

Whenever you notice that your thoughts are becoming critical and judgmental of your self you can choose to create a new thought habit that affirms your new positive self.

Your new thought habit should be the answers to the question:

Self Esteem Exercises that Promote Change

Change is where the action is. Without action and activity, without exercise, there will be no change. When you commit to change you will change. Change has a cost. It has a cost in time, effort and discomfort.

To change means to step outside of your boundaries. It means you are going to enter into uncharted territory. It will be unfamiliar, it will feel unsafe, but it will be a royal adventure with huge rewards.

To change means that rather than letting your mind run in the same old negative ruts, you will have new paths to follow, new thoughts to think. It does not mean that you won't ever doubt yourself or your abilities. It won't mean that there won't be difficult times and events in your life. What it will mean is that when you start to feel down on yourself or that you don't measure up, your mind will reject the old ruts and find the new path to run in.

A List of Self Esteem Exercises

1. Exercise. That's right get some physical exercise - you'll feel much better about yourself

2. Change your posture. When you feel worthless your body will reflect that. Stand up straight, push your chest out pull your shoulders back. Put on a smile. Even a fake smile will make you feel better. Its difficult to feel worthless when you have a big grin on your face.

3. Laugh. Yes a big fake laugh. Keep laughing until you can think of something of worth and value about yourself. When you do this exercise you are changing neural pathways. Thoughts and memories are locked into place by emotion. The stronger the emotion the stronger the connection. Laughter is a very strong emotion so any positive belief you connect with laughter will remain. Try do this exercise every day. Oh, and you may want to do this in a private or semi-private setting or people may begin to wonder about you.

4. Imagine. Visualize someone with little or no self esteem. Create a picture of that person in your imagination see this person as clearly as possible. See how they stand, hear what they sound like, observe how they dress, imagine what they smell like. Make this imaginary person as real as possible

Now focus on this persons low self esteem feel how low it is, how negative it is, how untrue it is. Now in your mind's eye make this imaginary person move towards you until you are enveloped (inside) it. Now move it off you and far away from you. Repeat. Keep doing this in your mind's eye until you get the 'aha!' moment. It may take a few sessions to break through on this one.

5. Create a personal Ad. Take a piece of paper - a fancy one if you can get your hands on it and write. Create an ad that shows off your best feature, your proudest moment, your favorite activity, something your 're good at, etc. This 'ad' should be geared towards attracting people as friends. If you have a difficult time coming up with reasons why anyone would want to be a friend, think of characteristics you would want in a friend and write your ad with those characteristics in mind.

The ultimate Self Esteem Exercise

You have read this far and if you have learned nothing else you have learned that self esteem is a condition of your mind. It is the sum total of all the thoughts you have regarding your own personal value and worth. All the exercises listed above will help you develop your self esteem. However, the most effective way to create healthy, positive self esteem is to directly program your mind with healthy, positive self esteem producing thoughts.

The most effective way to accomplish this is with affirmations. Affirmations are effective and efficient however they can take some time to become a part of your new thought habits. Is there a solution? Yes there is! When affirmations are combined with brainwave entrainment you have a solution that is fast, extremely powerful and very effective at programming your mind with healthy, positive self esteem producing thoughts. The ultimate self esteem exercise is to expose your mind to affirmations combined with brain wave entrainment on a regular basis. When you do this your mind will change. You behaviour will change, your life will change. In the end that is what you want isn't it?