Your ability to achieve what you really want in your life depends largely on your self-esteem. Your self-esteem is how you feel about yourself. The stronger your self-esteem, the more confident you will be in your abilities and the more you will achieve in life. In fact, there is a direct relationship between self-esteem and success. Successful people generally have very high self-esteem and think highly of themselves, while most unsuccessful people have very low self-esteem. According to Dr. Nathaniel Branden, famed self-esteem psychologist, “There is no value judgment more important to man, no more decisive factor in his psychological development and motivation than his self-esteem.”
Developing strong self-esteem is therefore paramount to living a better, happier and more successful life. You can use positive affirmation techniques to build your self-esteem and develop a powerful and positive attitude in life. Through the regular use of this powerful technique, you will begin to see wonderful changes in your life that you never imagined possible.
Affirmation is something you are doing all the time. In fact, every thought you think and every word you say is an affirmation. All your internal dialogues are affirmations. You are continually subconsciously affirming with your words and thoughts and this flow of affirmations is creating your life experience in every moment.
If you want to build your self-esteem, it is very important that you develop a conscious and focused affirmation process. You need to become aware of exactly what you are affirming through your thoughts and consciously and purposefully focus those affirmations into positive and empowering affirmations. These positive affirmations will reprogram your subconscious mind and allow you to increase your self-esteem. By developing the habit of using positive affirmations on a regular and consistent basis, your subconscious will adapt to the new information being fed to it.
In order for your affirmations to be 100% effective, it is important that you create your own affirmations based on your specific conditions and circumstances. It is very important to remember that your affirmations will only be effective if you can feel what you are affirming. It is the emotions that create your affirmations that will attract to you the things you want. The most effective positive affirmations are phrases that align with you, empower you, and allow you to feel a shift in your emotions as you repeat them.
You can repeat the following affirmations to restore your self-esteem or create your own affirmations. It is worth noting that loving yourself is the key to increasing your self-esteem. The more you love yourself, the stronger your self-esteem will grow.
1. I love and accept myself completely.
2. I feel very good about myself.
3. I respect myself.
4. I am a unique and very special person.
5. I and worthy of the respect of others.
6. I am happy and successful.
7. I have high self-esteem.
8. I deserve all the good things in life.
9. I am loving, healthy, positive and prosperous.
10. I am a valuable and important person.
Using positive affirmations can do wonders in building your self-esteem. Louise Hart once said that self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and happiness. You must believe in yourself and value yourself because you are unique and you are capable of achieving great things in your life. As Nathaniel Hawthorne well said, “Every individual has a place to occupy in the world, and it is important, in a sense, whether he chooses to be or not.”
