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- Why Your Inner Critic Can Be Your Worst Enemy - by Submitted on May 04, 2012 from Olaf SchwennesenThe Inner Critic is the nagging voice inside your head who constantly criticizes you. In reality, you do this yourself, but in therapy or if you want to change, it is advisable to treat that criticism as separated from yourself. There is a direct and an indirect way how the Inner Critic can harm ...
Views: 1410 - Mindfulness Amidst a Self-Esteem Crisis - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2012 from Olaf SchwennesenMindfulness seems to be a rather gentle tool at first appearance. It is know as a tool to reduce stress, popularized in the West by John Kabat-Zinn. Or mindfulness is used to expand your consciousness, have a more deeper experience of the present moment and be in the “now”. But mindfulness can ...
Views: 1313 - Five Things That Matter If You Want to Overcome Low Self-Esteem - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2012 from Olaf Schwennesen1. Your self-esteem can be harmed by your thoughts and beliefs. But changing only your thoughts is not sufficient if you intend to overcome overcome low self-esteem. Unless you don't work you don't work with unconscious motives and intentions and re-integrated suppressed qualities, you will miss ...
Views: 1190 - Why Examining the Past is Highly Overestimated to Overcome Low Self-Esteem - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2012 from Olaf SchwennesenDo you share the common belief that you have to analyze events in your childhood in order to get better? I would like to challenge this belief. Quite often it is not necessary or even counter-productive to 'rummage through the past'. But why is it such a popular idea? Our general approach to ...
Views: 965 - Practicing self-compassion - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2012 from Olaf SchwennesenCompassion towards ourselves and towards other is a powerful tool to overcome low self-esteem. You can apply compassion as a short term tool in your day-to-day life, and as a long term practice on a regular, preferably daily basis. While the former is an informal way to use it 'to go', the ...
Views: 1150 - Willpower revisited - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Olaf SchwennesenSo far there seems to be two schools regarding willpower. The first one claims that willpower is always at hand ready to be used. The second school holds the view that willpower is a limited resource and weakens over time. While the latter seems to be our day-to-day experience, the former is ...
Views: 1087 - Treatment for low self-esteem - Often misunderstood by the professional community - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2012 from Olaf SchwennesenOvercoming low self-esteem is probably one of the most misunderstood problem of the professional community, meaning psychotherapists, counselors, or coaches. The full dimension of low self-esteem does not seem to be generally understood. Often clients reported that they saw several therapists ...
Views: 979 - How to deal with criticism and humilation - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2012 from Olaf SchwennesenThe disrespectful remarks of other people - slights, criticism, or humiliations - can hurt us very much. Sometimes it hurts so much that we want to take revenge to restore our wounded self-esteem. Why is it possible that criticism and humiliation are able to harm us? The answer can be found in ...
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