5 Best Ways to Increase Your Self-Esteem

The concept a person have about his/herself is known as Self-esteem. Sense of self-worth is also sometimes refers to as self-esteem. It is sometime also called sense of self-worth. You are more expressive, sociable, have high sense of self-worth and will face new experience with high sprit if you have high self-esteem.

People who lack self-esteem are more expected to feel overwhelmed, helpless, and rely on unhealthy coping strategies that includes avoidance, isolation, and self-medication. One study showed that patients who had attempted suicide had significantly low self-esteem scale scores than patients who had never attempted suicide.

People with high self-esteem do experience stress, setbacks, and difficult emotions, but they use into their strengths and try to find help from support systems to overcome challenges and work through problems. High self-esteem empowers them to accept and adapt to a situation and move forward.

Ways of boosting self esteem

Relaxation

You can boost your self-esteem through relaxation exercise like deep breathing, yoga/mediation. Your mind get time to relax and think rationally in the process of deep berating. Breathing make you relax. Your anxiety reduce and your mind gets time to think rationally during the process of deep breathing.

The steps of deep breathing are as follows:

1. Close your eyes and Inhale slowly.

2. Then hold your breath for 5 sec.

3. Now exhale slowly like you are blowing your negative thought about yourself away from you

Know the difference between feelings and thoughts

Finding your thoughts and feeling also additional to enhance your self-esteem. Feeling anxious and depressed can be due to your thought that you are failure. So enhance to differentiate between your thought and feelings.

Switch the Negative Thoughts with Positive Thoughts

If you have low self-esteem, you will believes on negative thoughts about yourself. Your thinking about self is distrustful. You ruminate about yourself a failure, no sense of worth, negative self-image and unhappy. Whenever you make mistake you overgeneralize it and water your negative thought.

So time has come to change your thinking and replace your negative thinking with a positive thinking and when it comes to your mind that ‘you cannot do this just replace this thought’ with ‘I CAN DO THIS’.

Talk To Your Own Critic

identify that your existing style of thinking might be self-defeating and harmful to initiate something.

There are four basically categories of thought-provoking questions to ask yourself:

1. Testing the reality

2. Consider the alternative explanations

3. Putting the things in perspective

4. Using goal-directed thinking

Gratitude Journal

Gratitude journal is way to boost your self-esteem. Appreciate things you have in your life that you consider not worthy and take for granted. Write a journal of blessings, good things and daily accomplishment on daily bases, it can enhance and increase your self-esteem and you will feel optimistic.

SO, you can keep yourself from the many other emotional problems that roots from the low self-esteem by practicing these exercise.

Anger Management

People with low self-esteem have anger issue. If you want to improve your self-esteem, you need to deal with control your anger.

Techniques to avoid in anger

Many of the people use some strategies to control their anger, but these strategies are not beneficial need to be avoid to manage the anger. These are the following:

• Rising your voice

• Yelling

• Saying I am the boss

• Insisting to have last words

• Using tense body language

• Making comparisons

• Using degrading, humiliating

• Using sarcasm

• Holding the grudge

• Nagging

• Bringing up unrelated events

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