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How to increase my self-esteem
There are many ways to create higher self-esteem. One way is by praising yourself every day. Your mind doesn’t care if your thoughts are true or false. Your thoughts and beliefs will eventually become your reality.
Your subconscious mind is always eavesdropping on the thoughts you are having.
It is like the genie in the bottle. Say, for instance, that you think about how nice it would be to skip work and lay in bed for a day or two. Your subconscious mind listens, and a week later, you might end up with the flu.
How can you then use this knowledge to your advantage?
Well, one thing is for sure, self-love is the most important gift you can give yourself because when we love who we are, we will not hurt ourselves.
Stand in front of the mirror every morning and say to yourself that you love yourself. It can be hard to look yourself in the eyes and say this. In the beginning, you will most likely come up with thoughts that contradict your beliefs of self-love.
With some practice and consistency, you will start to experience a change in how you feel. You are going to become happier. You won’t take yourself or everything else so seriously as you might have done before.
By that, I don’t mean that you will become lazy. Instead, you will not be as hard on yourself if you fail or experience adversity of some sort. You know that you will always love yourself and that you are safe. You will always be there for you, no matter what happens.
By praising yourself every day, you become more immune to others’ opinions of you.
When you fall in love with yourself, you consent for the rest of the world to do the same.
People who resent and criticize others are often not happy with themselves and often live in fear. Fear of failure or not being enough. By blaming others, they think that they will feel better, but they won’t.
Recently I listen to Lisa Lisa Nicolas. She had been in a bad relationship, and her boyfriend abused her. She eventually ended the relationship and went to the doctor. The doctor prescribed her Prozac and told her that she was clinically depressed. Lisa refused to take the medication, and instead, she asked the doctor…