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Mind, Body and Soul Last Updated: Jul 2nd, 2008 - 21:15:22


Low Self Esteem and How to Love Yourself
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Oct 1, 2006, 14:48

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Having low self esteem can have a very large impact on the quality of your life. Having low self esteem can undermine your ability to cope with changes in your life. Someone's self esteem also determines the person's ability to succeed in fulfilling their goals and dreams.

A person's self esteem also can affect their ability to communicate with other people. As Humans, we tend to be social animals, and enjoy communication very much. Esteem issues may affect a person's ability to reveal the true self. Low self esteem can also cause trust issues in a person. A person who has low self esteem has trouble trusting anything. They think, Why would someone like me? Because they don't like themselves. They would have trouble trusting even themselves.

Low self esteem can act as a prison bars that hold a person captive, for they are unable to reach their full potential because of fear and insecurity. They must free themselves of the shackles of low self esteem and learn that there is nothing wrong with them. They are no less a person than anyone else they know. They have to learn to love themselves.

But how can someone who doesn't feel good about themselves change what they think and feel The steps must be done slowly, but they will work. The person with low self esteem feels that there is goodness deep inside but does not know how to bring that goodness to the surface where they can really feel it.

Here are some steps to help you begin to believe in yourself. Just remember, you are good and these feelings of low self worth are the lie. You are a person, you are a child of God and you are valuable, to yourself, to those who love you, your family, your friends, strangers you will help, even your pets. Try some of the tips below and get on the road to magnificent self discovery. Find the wonders of you!

1) Acceptance

Admit you have a problem. Once you have admitted that, you have taken the first step to resolving that problem. In admitting that you have low self esteem, you are telling yourself it is okay to deal with this problem now that it is out in the open. Be honest with yourself, but not cruel. You are probably not is as bad shape as you think, because your perception is not clear. You are not a horrible person and with a little work on your self esteem you will realize not only are you not horrible, you are wonderful!!!

Acceptance of a problem makes you begin to realize the great impact the problem has made in your life. In order to change your low self esteem take a look and realize how much it affects your life and weights you down. Accepting of a problem only lets you know you have had something holding you back from achieving all you can.

Most people don't even realize they have low self esteem esteem. Ending the cycle of low self esteem can be difficult until they accept and recognize the problem. You cannot fix what you don't see.

2) Confrontation

Not with anyone else, just yourself. You have admitted you have low self esteem. You have completed the most difficult step of the process. The first step is always the hardest. Now here are a few more steps for you to take. Take them slowly. Don't rush. You are on a wonderful and exciting journey of self discovery. Don't fear the unknown, because here, the unknown is you. You have a wonderful mind, and heart, and ability. Find it and learn to cherish yourself. Now you must do an inventory of yourself.

a) Identify The Source

Identifying where your problem began will be a great asset in helping you get over it. This means that you must think back and try to remember what caused you to feel that you were just not up to par with everyone else. That you were just not as good, or as smart, or as pretty. Of course, the truth is yes you are, but you have to do some soul searching to know why you do not completely believe it. When you can identify the cause of the problem it allows you to know how to begin on the journey upward.

2.) Recognize The Solution

To begin to face the problem, you should know what goal you have in trying to correct the problem. Do you want to believe your as smart or talented as everyone else? Or as pretty? Then be aware of your goal. Focus on it. Read if you want to be smarter, and you will be. Dress nicely and fix your hair if you want to be prettier and you will be. When you look in the mirror you will feel better about yourself. Keep it up then! Find where your problem lies and join different activities like a club, a gym, or even talking to someone in your past. Find what don't you like about yourself and change it.

3) Healing

Once you have begun on the road to accepting who you are and working with what you have to be the wonderful you that I know that you are, and you will realize it soon. Keep working on yourself. Don't think okay I feel better now,and go on like you always have in the past. Keep moving forward. We are amazing creatures, and there are new and wonderful discoveries to make for each one of us about ourselves. We are all in the process of becoming the best we can be. It is a growing process. It never stops. You are who you are. You have the same rights and feelings as everyone else. You are just as good as everyone else. You can only blossom and grow in this knowledge of yourself. So begin to go to the school of you. Find out all there is to know and appreciate in yourself. Once you love and know yourself, you can truly know and love others too.

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