Cure for low self esteem
By fabwisp
@fabwisp (1327)
February 19, 2007 9:18am CST
If You Have Low Self-Esteem it can really affect your daily life and health. Just thought I'd share a few things that work for me.
The first thing to do is to handle your immediate environment.
Usually you will find that you have neglected your friends, your body and your environment. Clean up your apartment, do the laundry, dishes or anything else you have neglected. Get done anything you have been "meaning to do." This also includes making sure you get enough sleep and eat properly etc.
Get Re-acquainted
Catch up on some friends that you have neglected and/or re-acquaint yourself with your sweetheart. This step will really help you to understand that you do have people around you that care about you.
Get some exercise
One of the best ways to accomplish this is to make sure you take a walk every day. While walking, try to just look at the environment around you and not worry or think about things.
Start writing a journal
Keeping a journal can be invaluable therapy. Everyday sit down in a quiet place and just write whatever comes to mind. It is almost like downloading every thought you have into your journal. Once you have downloaded them, you will find that there is no need to continually think about them and will start to feel better. After a few days you will also start to see some patterns emerging that have affected your life so far.
After a while of doing this, you will feel a lot better about yourself and you should start to realize what caused your feelings of low self-esteem in the first place. Solutions will start to present themselves and your new outlook on life will bring with it new opportunities to further improve your environment.
Hope some of this has helped.
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
19 Feb 07
thanks for pointing out this important matter...I can say that I know what is to have low self esteem...I had to learn to love myself little by little after facing a lot of bad situations...the fact is that if you don't like yourself as you should, you will let others treat you bad and without respect...I have always been told that I deserved the most but when I fell in love I let the man I love do everything he would because I found so "strange" that someone could love me that I didn't pay attention to the fact that I was the one who loved and he really didn't love me or not enough or not as much as I did....we must learn that we have a right to be loved and before doing this we must learn how to love ourselves....we all deserve care and attention and nobody is making you a favour if treating you well...we deserve everything...I learned my lesson well now