Increase your self-esteem by understanding fear (1 minute read)

This post is about how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by facing your fears: Here, the post continues with important reflections to be made when doing an exposure to manage fear. Important strategies to handle possible strong reactions during an exposure are: – Regulate stress-level through mindful…

This post“Increase your self-esteem by understanding the dangers with compensation” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings. There are several mature defense mechanisms that are helpful strategies for: – Managing unwanted impulses and anxiety – Resolving underlying issues or problems – Getting a more peaceful mind and relationships  …

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding how fantasies can protect you ” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding how fantasies can protect you: Autistic fantasy is an immature defense mechanism where a person deals with emotional conflict and stressors by escaping into…

This post  “Increase your self-esteem by re-evaluating fear” is about how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by re-evaluating fear: This post continues with fear. Exposure is the main technique to constructively handle fears, i.e. with the aim to living the life you would like and not avoiding…

The main thesis of Csikszentmihalyi’s flow-concept is that happiness is not a state but can be developed through learning how to achieve flow in our lives. He describes it as: “…a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will…

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding how fantasies can help you” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding how fantasies can help you: Healthy fantasy is also about escaping real problems and uncomfortable situations by diving into literature, TV and Internet. For fantasies…