self help

Self Esteem

What You Need To Be Willing To Do BEFORE You Can Develop Self Confidence A Quick Way to Build Your Self Esteem - Stop Needing Approval Raising Your Energy Levels - What's your energy level? Your answer may be the reason why you're not accomplishing as much as you'd like or why people seem to avoid you. Here are some tips on how to raise your energy levels. How to Be Good Enough or What I Learnt From Barney the Dog My dog Barney provided me with a valuable lesson which totally changed how I viewed my past and my self image. Why We Blame Others Often we'll blame others for our hurt feelings when really it all has to do with what beliefs we've added to the event. Mirroring - A Key to Understanding Yourself All the time, people are showing you through their actions what you truly believe about yourself. Beliefs that you may not even be aware that you have. Discover what thoughts of yours that they're mirroring and it can be the key to understanding yourself in ways you've never thought of before. "I Hate Myself For..." - 4 Steps To Change Your Thinking To Be More Positive How Do You Talk To Yourself? How do you talk to yourself when you're learning something new or want to change your life? Here are some ways you may be sabotaging yourself without realizing it. Jealousy - How To Deal With It Jealousy can be an ugly emotion because it can ruin what should be a happy celebration. By realizing where it’s coming from you can turn the situation around and learn a lot about yourself. What's Your Life Story? Do You Need To Let It Go? Your life story is what you tell yourself over and over and to anyone who will listen. It could be an event from your past or how badly you were treated as a child. Anything that you use to justify your actions. Your life story could be stopping you from achieving your true potential. Find out if it's time to let it go and how to accomplish that. I Feel Like an Outsider, Like I Don't Belong Do you feel like you just don't fit in anywhere? Here are 5 tips on what to do when you feel like an outsider. Regrets - 5 Reasons We Have Them and How to Make Them A Positive Experience {Back to Top} Self Limiting Beliefs Confidence Tips - "No Thanks, That Doesn't Suit Me" A really good self confidence tip is to take a look at what your limiting beliefs are and then release them. You don't wear shoes two sizes too small so why do you wear someone else's opinion when it doesn’t suit you? What beliefs are preventing you from being the best you can be? Your Inner Voice – 4 Reasons to Listen to It Instead of Limiting Beliefs Society is very good at telling us what we should be doing with our lives. Here's 4 reasons why your inner voice knows better. 6 Reasons Why We Are So Afraid of Change Change is scary, especially when it’s a major life change. Here are the 6 main reasons why we are so afraid of any change in our lives and what we can do about it. How do you silence the negative voices? More to Life - Respect Your Dreams Here's a really valuable affirmation I recently heard which is so important to remember if you are to get more from life and to achieve your greatest dreams.

Self Esteem

by Catherine Pratt
www.Life-With-Confidence.com

Knowing how to build your self esteem is a major part of developing your self confidence.Your self esteem affects not only how you view the world but also how others relate to you. The following articles are all about how to start believing in yourself. You'll not only learn step by step on how to build your self esteem, you'll see it's far easier than you might think.

Body & Health Confidence

by Catherine Pratt
www.Life-With-Confidence.com

Your body confidence (self image as well as mental confidence) can be affected by how you’re feeling health wise.

It's pretty hard to feel upbeat and positive if you feel tired all the time and struggle to make it through the day, isn't it?

It also makes it tough to accomplish things and then you can end up feeling like a failure because you're not able to fulfill the goals you’ve set for yourself.

Sometimes, all it takes is making a few simple changes and you get completely different results. For example, instead of feeling tired all the time, you suddenly have the energy to do the things you want.

That's what the articles on this page are all about, making healthy choices to dramatically improve your self confidence.

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Body & Health Categories

Feeling Tired Meditation Nutrition Pain Panic Attacks Seasonal Affective Disorder Stress Additional Resources Search For Specific Topic Enter your search termsSubmit search form Web www.Life-With-Confidence.com Feeling Tired Why am I so tired? My personal experience with SAD SAD is also sometimes known as the Winter Blues because it’s usually triggered by the shortened hours of light during the winter. It’s estimated to affect 6 out of 100 people in North America. If you feel tired and are craving carbohydrates, you might be interested in reading my personal story of Life With SAD. It started out with me feeling unbelievably tired all the time. I'm So Tired. What Your Brain Might be Trying to Tell You. If you feel tired all the time, it can be tough to develop self confidence. Being tired doesn’t always just mean you haven’t had enough sleep. Here’s a few other reasons why you might be feeling tired. Another Reason For Feeling Tired All The Time - Dehydration I tried out the experiment of drinking more water and I was absolutely amazed at what a difference this simple change made. 11 Tips To Beat Those Low Energy Days Raising Your Energy Levels What's your energy level? Your answer may be the reason why you're not accomplishing as much as you'd like. Here are some tips on how to raise your energy levels. Also, check out The Schwarzbein Principle in the "Nutrition" section below. I had no idea that what I was eating, which I thought was really healthy, was actually making me extremely tired all the time. Stop Feeling Tired! ebook. {Back to Top} Meditation Centerpointe Research Holosync Meditation CDs I really like these CDs. I always wanted to try out meditation but I could never calm my brain down enough to actually do it. I'd always get distracted and start thinking about something else. These ones are good because you just have to listen to them and it's fine if you think about other things. You still get the calming effects. They're also much more than just for meditation. The way they've created these CDs causes your brain to create new neural pathways. This means that: - unresolved emotional issues at the deepest level, including anxiety, depression, anger, substance-abuse, fear and many other dysfunctional feelings can be healed. - Stress levels are lowered but it also raises your threshold for what you can handle. Things that used to bother you will not longer have any effect on you. For me, it's rush hour traffic. Used to drive me crazy, now it doesn't. - Your learning ability, memory, intuition, creativity, and your ability to focus, concentrate and think more clearly are dramatically improved. - Huge leaps in your personal self awareness suddenly occur. It's actually quite amazing that all that is going on while you're put into a deep relaxing state. This is one of the few programs that I've actually been able to keep doing every single day. Usually, I'll start something, do it for a few weeks and then move on to something else. Not with these ones. I religiously listen every single day. These CDs are much different than any other "holosync" or meditation CD I've tried. They don't just sell you the CD and send you on your way. They provide you with tons of information on how to use them and on what to expect as you go through the process as well as a support telephone line to call if you have any questions. They are making a real difference for me. You can get a Free Holosync CD as a demo if you'd like to try before you buy. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have. At first glance, they might seem expensive, but you get a lot for your money (4 CDs, books, support emails, newsletters, etc) but also they actually work. Centerpointe Research Holosync Meditation CDs Even if you don't buy the CD's, you can listen to some really great interviews Bill Harris did with a lot of the people you would have seen in the DVD, "The Secret". People like Joe Vitale, Lisa Nichols, and John Assaraf. You can listen to these interviews for free at: Masters of the Secret Interviews Additional Meditation Ideas You might also like to try out a Guided Meditation by Alan Tutt. He sells a 15 minute guided meditation program but there's a free sample available on the page. It's a quick breather when you need to focus or relax. Jeanie Marshall Guided Meditation - you can get two free guided meditations to try from this site. You do need to provide your email address but you can unsubscribe right after if you like. The first meditation is "Experience The Energy Flow" and the second one is "Mid-Day Quick Tune Up". They're about 3 - 4 minutes each. Nutrition The Schwarzbein Principle Ever wonder if something is wrong with you that you feel so drained all the time? Maybe it’s what you're eating. I found this to be a really helpful resource in figuring out what a good diet really involves. There's so much conflicting information out there and I found that this one made a lot of sense. It also explained to me that it wasn't just a matter of me not having enough willpower to give up foods that I knew were bad for me. There are hormonal factors involved when trying to get off sugar and caffeine. It helped me to understand what my body was going through and how I needed to be healthy first before I could lose weight. L-Glutamine - Not Just For Stomach Aches Anymore I started out taking L-Glutamine to solve my problem of constant stomach aches but it seems to have also solved some of my SAD symptoms like feeling tired and constantly craving sugar. Why Sugar Is Toxic To The Body This article provides some compelling information on why it's so important to eliminate as much sugar as possible from your diet. Link opens new web site window Nutrition and Bipolar Disorder If you have bipolar disorder, you might find this bipolar website called, "No More Bipolar Disorder" quite interesting as it discusses how important nutrition is with this disorder. Supplements If you're wondering about supplements and whether you should take them or not, the web site, Supplementation for Health, has some great information. {Back to Top} Pain Body Pains or Simply Emotions Not Acknowledged? I had a back ache that just wouldn’t go away. Well, not until I read a book on releasing emotions to heal pain. It was a fascinating new way of regarding the power of our emotions especially when we don’t acknowledge them. Why Emotional Stress and Pain Isn't Always Such a Bad Thing {Back to Top} Panic Attacks Do you suffer from panic or anxiety attacks? This web site was recommended to me from a friend who has dealt with panic attacks most of her life. She found it to be a great help in realizing you're not going crazy and there are things you can do. This site has good suggestions on how to manage panic and anxiety attacks while they're happening and even some suggestions on how to reduce the number of attacks you may have. It gives you that extra bit of confidence to just know that you can handle them when they happen. Another good web site is the National Panic and Anxiety Disorder News {Back to Top} Seasonal Affective Disorder & Review of SAD Lights Why am I so tired? My personal experience with SAD SAD is also sometimes known as the Winter Blues because it’s usually triggered by the shortened hours of light during the winter. It’s estimated to affect 6 out of 100 people in North America. If you feel tired and are craving carbohydrates, you might be interested in reading my personal story of Life With SAD. How to Deal With SAD Here are the 4 things I find make the biggest difference when dealing with SAD. SAD Light Comparison If you're thinking of getting a SAD light, here's my review of the two SAD lights I have; the Sadelite and the Litebook which might help you in your decision making. SAD FAQ's Some Frequently Asked Questions I've received about dealing with SAD. Benefit of Vitamin D with SAD L-Glutamine - Not Just For Stomach Aches Anymore SAD Store Products to help you deal with SAD. {Back to Top} Stress Feeling Overwhelmed? - Are you feeling overwhelmed? It could be because you're reacting instead of choosing. How To Deal With Stress - What Are You Afraid Of? An Easier Way To Handle Stress Feeling Pressured? The following story may reveal to you a simple technique to relieve some of your feelings of being pressured. Don't Just Do Something, Sit There 4 tips on how to learn to enjoy every moment. Additional Resources for Stress Relief EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) might interest you if you're looking for stress relief. It's a technique that uses a gentle and simple tapping on various parts of your body. It's based on working with your body's different energies and learning how they impact your well-being. They've had great results with it allowing people to release negative feelings whether they originate in the past, the present or are fears about the future. A site which contains a lot of great info on this is Stress Relief With EFT. It explains the process and there's also some great audio instructions you can follow along with. Encouraging Life Changes This is a good web site which uses beautiful photographs to motivate and encourage you to take charge of your life and to make positive changes. One page I really liked is about self doubt, "The Path of Self Doubt Leads to No Open Doors" which gets you to question what are you missing out on by listening to your self doubt instead of your dreams. Access the Alpha State of Mind This is a link to the Psychic Junkie web site and on this page it tells you how to calm yourself down and get into the alpha state of mind. There's also an MP3 file you can download for free which is quite relaxing to hear. Additional Resources Todays-Women-and-Health.com - This web site has some great information which will teach you womens health strategies to cope with the pressures of daily life and to overcome the challenges of stress, self-esteem, nutrition, weight loss, skin care and more… The Diet Reviews page is valuable in providing a detailed review of the most popular diet plans out there. Gives you the pro's and con's of each so you can make an informed decision. Natural Health Girl This web site is about "unlocking the secrets to natural health and beauty". It has some interesting articles and provides information on everything from buying organic clothing to finding healthy household products to easy exercise ideas. Need Help Sleeping? - Sleep Aid Tips. This web site teaches you how to sleep like a baby every night of the week and naturally improve your health and energy levels at the same time for better sleeping with natural sleep aid tips.