What is Self-Esteem?
Healthy confidence means that you believe in yourself and your ability to succeed in a particular task or activity. Confidence is rooted in your knowledge and skills.
People with healthy self-esteem feel good about themselves. They have positive beliefs and emotions about their worth. Healthy self-esteem involves awareness of your abilities and personal qualities and healthy self-compassion. Other people most likely see you as practical, self-assured, with a developed sense of self-worth.
Persistent self-criticism often grows into low self-esteem over time. However, there are many effective strategies to help improve your self-esteem. Learning how to overcome self-criticism and boost your self-acceptance can help shift your mindset about yourself, other people, and opportunities in life.
The Power of Positive Affirmations
One of the best ways to boost self-acceptance is to practice positive affirmations. Counselling can help you recognize and acknowledge your negative thinking patterns and learn strategies to replace them with positive statements about yourself.
Positive affirmations promote self-acceptance and self-compassion because we tend to think and behave in line with our self-perception.
By repeating positive self-statements every day, you will persuade your subconscious mind to accept self-affirming statements as the only truth and deliberately establish a positive self-image. This can boost your self-esteem.