Why Optimists Can Achieve More

Today’s post is about the driving forces behind these emotions and how they can contribute to stress and exhaustion. There are many factors that make exhausted persons easily become too active when they are trying to heal their stress injuries. This can delay the healing process and prolong the suffering. In earlier posts…
Another extremely important exercise to improve your self-worth and self-esteem is reading aloud your list of your 10 positive traits (see last week’s exercise) to yourself. In therapy, there are important healing phenomena such as mirroring and validation, when one is feeling understood and seen, e.g. by regard and affirmations from another human being. You…
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 continue…
There are many anxiety inducing patterns often called cognitive distortions or thought traps. These are ways of thinking that seem true but are in fact not reasonable, realistic or relevant to the situation. Noticing when we are using thought traps and countering them is an important part of traditional CBT-exercises that also can reduce symptoms…
Here, the post “Increase self-esteem by lessening shame using self-compassion” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings. Increase self-esteem by lessening shame using self-compassion: This post continues with how to manage disproportionate and painful shame. One of the treatment methods for painful shame is Compassion Focused Therapy developed by…
This post “Increase your self-esteem by managing shame with kindness and understanding” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by listening to your feelings and heal self-destructive shame. Increase your self-esteem by managing shame with kindness and understanding: The last posts have been about some of the important insights and building blocks to…