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“Self Esteem means feeling good inside: How to feel good inside” by Karl Perera

Self Esteem is what we experience when we feel good about ourselves and when we feel good inside. What makes you feel good inside?

I think when you feel you like what you are doing, where you are going and feel you have your priorities right. Feeling good means being satisfied with what you have, with what you are doing and where you are going. Next month we will look at how ambition can help or hinder you in your search for self esteem. Let’s continue with this article’s theme……

Don’t make the common mistake of comparing your achievements to someone else or to what you believe you should have done up to this point. You will NEVER measure Continue Reading

Low self-esteem is both physically and mentally damaging to an individual. It can be an emotional breaking point for many people, if let untreated it can result in suicide and numerous other physical and mental conditions. It’s important to recognize some of the signs and what a person can do to stop them before they get out of control.

Depression is obviously the first and most recognizable symptom of low self-esteem, is very dangerous without treatment, and can lead to the end of the person life. A depressed person will feel useless, hopeless and desperate.

As a result of these three negative emotions, they will pull away from everyone feeling that they are only causing the family and friends anguish. Low-esteem is the result of negative thoughts about Continue Reading

In recent studies it has been reported that teenagers contribute high self esteem to physical appearance; an adolescent’s self concept of their physical attractiveness proved to be the highest predictor of overall self esteem. Scholastic skills, social acceptance, and athletic ability all came in a close second.

Teenagers self esteem is greatly influenced by emotional support. Kids from loving homes proved higher self esteem where kids from conflicted homes reported lower levels. And although family plays an important role, peers are also considered a strong indicator of a child’s self esteem level.

Kids with higher self esteem tend to express opinions, work well with others, maintain eye contact, speak fluently, look others in the face, engage in social Continue Reading

Developing self esteem is a need that we all feel in varying degrees. Some people always seem to feel that they are on top of the world while others always feel kinda blue. How does one develop good self esteem?

1. The first thing you have to learn is that you should seek approval from within, not from other people. When you were a child, it was only natural that you seek the approval of your parents and other adults in your family. But now that you are an adult, you should learn to get approval from your own self.

2. To get approval from yourself, you first have to know what it is you need in life. This means knowing what you need yourself, not what other people say you need. You will find that there will always be many people who will want to dictate to you what you Continue Reading

“I hate myself”. This is what a majority of people feel in some point of their lives. “Why can’t anything good ever happen to me?” The shortest and best way to say it is that simply put, you lack something. It is evident that in the composition of the human, we categorize the “Total Human” in three parts: the mind, the body, and the soul or psyche (pronounced soo-kay in Ancient Greek). Allow me to explain.

1) The mind

The mind of a person is the device that governs rational thought and images. This is where a such thing as low self- esteem is created. The way a person thinks can in essence, define that person. It was Descartes that said, “I think, therefore I Am” and in the Bible it states, ” So as a man Continue Reading