What's good for self-esteem?

Question

Does anybody know any good excercises or anything that helps with self-esteem and confidence?

Answer 1

weight lifting and strength training are the good ways to gain good self esteem and confidence. Because when you are healthy and muscular looking, you will feel good about yourself that way you can have good self esteem.

Answer 2

http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1202.html

This website has some really helpful ideas on how to deal with low self esteem in particular


Accept who you are -- your strengths and your weaknesses, your feelings and emotions. This doesn't mean we don't have to work on things.

Forgive yourself for mistakes, and, instead, see them as opportunities to learn and grow.

Take alone time, regularly, to read, play, garden, write... basically, to nurture yourself. Develop your talents and abilities.

Trust your thoughts and intuitions. Do what makes you feel happy and fulfilled.

Take pride in your achievements, big and small.

Replace negative self-talk with positive, kind, loving statements. When something goes wrong, instead of blaming yourself, that you must have done something wrong or that there's something wrong with you, learn to accept that it may not have anything to do with you.

Don't depend on others to make you feel good. Know and reflect on who you are in the event of a rejection.

Exercise, eat right, and get plenty of sleep. Being exhausted and out of shape can leave you feeling more vulnerable to insecurity, anxiety, and self-dissatisfaction.

Surround yourself with positive, healthy people.

Seek counseling or self-help/support groups. You may find these very helpful and/or comforting.

Most importantly, make conscious, healthy choices.


I hope this helps a little

Answer 3

Try to be where you feel better respected.
I am a university teacher and at the same time I work in a large company as a consultant. you can't imagine how different they are and how self confident I feel when I am at the university.
Just know that you'll be a lose in all cases if you don't take yourself above what you really are. This is my experience.

Answer 4

Being able to sit with complete comfortability in a group setting may indicate your self-esteem status. Try to get along in a social situation and later guage what issues may have been bothering you. Work on those issues and your self-esteem will increase.

Answer 5

Helping worthwhile causes or charities, such as writing letters in support of prisoners of conscience, for Amnesty International, or helping Meals on Wheels for 2 hrs/fortnight: there are hundreds to choose from. See http://www.coolnurse.com/self (.com/self_esteem.htm).

Answer 6

Check out
http://www.utexas.edu/student/cmhc/booklets/selfesteem/selfest.html

Answer 7

Driving down really fast on an empty freeway putting on ur favorite song, helps me a lot!
Also - playing my favorite video games - need4speed, or some First person shooter where u kick da hell outta da enemy :D

Answer 8

theres a lot of articles on this. i read that if you distance yourself from those who make you feel bad about yourself it helps. also, do something good for the community, itll make you feel better about yourself.