Last update: January 28, 2015
In many moments of our life we ​​have had problems that have touched us on a psychological level and that have left us very important after-effects. Some of these serious consequences have affected the way we think, live and even see ourselves, changing our self-esteem and making us feel inferior or unable to overcome the obstacles that life presents us to test ourselves.
Self-esteem can be defined as the value we place on ourselves and which develops during the course of life, particularly during the adolescent stage. Having low self-esteem is considered a distortion of thinking, which is a way of thinking that is not fair to you. Some of the thoughts that fuel low self-esteem are self-accusation, polarized thinking, mind reading, emotional reasoning, and more.
Overcoming techniques
Overcoming the problem of low self-esteem, a feeling about ourselves that has formed over the years, is very difficult. Nevertheless, there are many techniques, methodologies and ways of changing our way of thinking that can help us raise our low self-esteem.
The consequences of having low self-esteem can affect not only our emotions, but also our health and our life. They are an obstacle to being able to triumph and achieve the success so desired in the professional field. In addition, having low self-esteem damages us in study and personal life, as well as in relating to others. Low self-esteem can cause sadness, melancholy, depression, shyness, and other negative feelings.
Some techniques used to improve the value of ourselves can help a lot; an example may be not comparing oneself to others. Comparisons with things and with the people around us can lead us not only to have low self-esteem, but also to lose our identity. There are always people who are more successful than us or who will have more and who will do better in life, so it is important not to live according to the life that other individuals lead or comparing ourselves to them or setting their own goals. We must have our own identity and create personal life projects.
Another way to improve the problem of self-esteem is to change the way of thinking, transforming the negative into the positive. There are always obstacles and difficult problems to solve in life, but these themselves can be faced as a lesson for the long path of life that we have to walk.
Acceptance is another way to improve and feel better about ourselves. We have to accept our body, our way of being and what we have. Another way to overcome internal fears is to increase self-love is to create a life plan, a personal strategy to be able to increase the low self-esteem we have.
