Our self esteem and self worth are constantly being attacked by the media and the world around us. The “expectations” of beauty, fashion, fame, wealth, and power can sometimes create feelings within ourselves of doubt, comparison, embarrassment, resentment, sadness and a loss of love for ourselves.
Just as there is a positive energy from God in the world there also exists the evil and negative energy from the adversary who never gained a body like us and whose goal and desire is to do anything in his power to make us feel miserable like himself. Whenever we experience negative emotions in ourselves towards our own self or towards others we have to remember that ALL that is negative comes from the one who wants us to be miserable…therefore we must react quickly to get rid of those negative feelings or emotions and replace them with positive feelings!!! such as love, peace, joy, gratitude and all that is good and that comes from God!
So, how can we keep our self esteem at a great level (not conceited or arrogant but self esteem that brings inner peace and strength) and that will allow us get rid of negative feelings towards ourselves or others?
Here are a few ideas to help us build an even better self esteem:
1) Remember where you come from: <3 We are sons and daughters of God! the creator of the universe and within us we have the capacity to rise higher than where we are now!..As His children we can do this with His help. We have to remember that we are not here on earth to compete with anyone else!…we are all on different roads and each of those roads is made specific for each person. God has given us our own gifts, talents and our individual purpose for being on this earth at this precise time. The goal is to find what our purpose is, to help others and to be happy for them and their successes! 🙂 God has a plan for us and all things will work out for our good. <3
2) Humility: When we come close to God we become humble and realize that we really can’t do things withought His help. Humility and depending upon God will give us greater self esteem to know that we need Him for our inner strength and power….He is the only one who can turn our weaknesses into strengths. 🙂
3) Have charity in our hearts: When we give service to others we feel good for doing something for someone else. It’s good to take a break from thinking about ourselves and our problems and focus our energies on someone else and their needs…lifting them up and helping them in any way we can will be rewarding to our souls and it brings peace, gratitude and love for ourselves and others.<3
& Last but not least, 4) Nurture ourselves: We always take care of the things we value. if we spend a lot of money on something we take good care of it…but why can’t we do that with ourselves? It is so important to take time daily to do things that will be positive for our self nurturing. we can make a list of the things that would nurture us and pick one to do for ourselves daily. it can be things like; exercising, eating healthy, praying, reading a book, listening to motivational messages, repeating positive affirmations or doing things that will be relaxing, like siting outside, enjoying the view of the beach, mediating, taking a bubble bath…basically anything that will nurture us. If we want to love and take care of ourselves then we need to make time for this. It will be the gift from ourselves to ourselves daily!..Nobody else will do that for us. We have to choose the time, schedule it and do it! 🙂 <3
The weekly challenge is:
* Spiritual: to work on our self esteem and self love, if theres a negative thought we will say; Cancel! cancel! and replace it with a positive affirmation like: I am love, I am forgiveness, I am peace etc. this helps a ton! lets do it!!! 🙂 <3
* Physical: To nurture ourselves daily! but this goal is for a physical nourishment, like eating healthy, exercising, (which has been proven to raise self esteem)…stretching etc… your choice! 😉
I hope today and the rest of the week will be blessed and wonderful! See you tonight for an awesome workout and therapy session! can’t wait to see everyone!
FYI: Class will be on this week and the next but it will be cancelled Tuesday the 22nd and the 29th of December & we will resume again in January! 🙂
I’m here for you always! stay positive and think positive!
Love,
LILI
