Increase your self-esteem by using the strategy ‘escape reality’ (1 minute read)

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 identifying your coping strategies for managing strong feelings and anxiety” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Identify your coping strategies for managing strong feelings and anxiety: The tricky thing with defense mechanisms is that they are difficult to identify. Since they are…

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding the difference betweeen anxiety and fear” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding the difference betweeen anxiety and fear: This post is about the difference between fear and anxiety. Some think that fear and anxiety are versions…

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…

Here are some final comments before leaving the concept of flow, a key we can actively get more of in our daily life leading to more joy as well as increased self-esteem.   Positive psychology is a direction within psychology that focuses on how we can stimulate the presence and frequency of positive emotions, such…