Overcoming Low Self-Esteem

Overcoming low self-esteem is very important because feeling unworthy diminishes your self confidence. When your self worth is low, you are very cautious over your actions, decisions and interactions. You become timid, fearful and hesitant. You stunt your personal growth and don't get to make the most of your potentials.

When your self-esteem is high and healthy, you develop inner strengths and self respect. You believe in your abilities, and feel that you are capable of achieving your goals and succeed. You feel attractive because you have developed self acceptance. It does not matter what others think of you. It is what and how you feel about yourself that matters. And you don't easily judge people.

Self Esteem Building

Self examination

If you had been brought up with critical parents and were surrounded in a negative environment, it is likely that you have developed low self-esteem. You may have eventually built up a habitual pattern of self disapproval, fault finding and self condemnation.

You do not have to go back in time to examine yourself. You can start right here and right now. Explore your present thoughts, emotions and responses. Look at your behavior, your attitudes and your good or bad habits.

You must let go of your painful past that you have emotionalized and, until today, looks, sounds and feels so real in your mind. Question these beliefs and thoughts and challenge your answers. Start looking at another point of view, somewhere you have not looked before. And at things you have not noticed, with new eyes and a curious mind.

Change your thinking pattern

Interrupt your negative habitual patterns of thoughts. Take a different approach. Write down your past achievements and successes instead of your frustrations, losses, and failed attempts. This will help your subconscious to see and internalize a new set of beliefs.

You can change your attitude and mental programming. Interrupt, stop and challenge the present disempowering thoughts and images that are going on in your mind. Replace them with inspiring pictures and positive words.

Take deliberate and conscious effort to monitor your self talks

Have you been listening to yourself lately? Really listening to that chatter? These voices are one of the main causes for your low self esteem and lack of self belief.

Sometime, somewhere, someone or even you have said that you were not good enough. You believed these words. From then on you keep saying them over and over again inside, without your conscious awareness. If you don't snap at those voices, you will keep on believing in your "I can't" and "I'm not good enough" mentality.

What you say to yourself affects your emotions. Your emotions affect your actions. Get rid of those negative self criticisms and replace them with positive affirmations. Your own voice is more powerful that those outside yourself.

Make a firm decision

Have you thought about how you are going to live your future if you allow yourself to believe that you do not deserve something better?

You have a choice "To be or not to be". You can choose to become a person with a healthy and high self-esteem. You can decide to succeed and become more and a better person. Or you can choose to wither and atrophy until it is time for you to go.

You can decide to influence or be influenced. You do not have to depend on other people's opinion. You can take advice but you make your own decisions. With a firm decision to build your self-esteem and take action, you will improve and regain your pride and dignity.

Remind yourself that when you change in how you see and regard yourself, you will begin to like yourself. By the law of attraction, people will like you. Your relationships will improve. When you feel better about yourself, you will enhance your self image. Your confidence will improve.

With a healthy self-esteem your motivation to act upon your goals becomes easier because you believe in you. Your life will turn around for the better. Start today to make that change. Write down your goals. Plan your strategies. Take constructive action steps. Start believing in yourself.

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