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Living consciously improves self esteem
How we live our life affects our self-esteem.
Working on building a positive self esteem is a life long task, no-one has a completely positive self esteem, nor negative. as long as our relationship with ourselves last, so our self-esteem will evolve and change. It changes in relationship to life events and hormones as well as an ongoing relationship with self. I am going to talk here about how living our life with integrity, or not, will affect our self esteem.
Letting go of trauma.
I want to share an experience recently of some personal work I was doing that completed and let go of an early trauma. I want to share how powerful working from a mind-body approach can be. I have always been fairly inflexible especially around my hip area. As years have gone by my thigh muscles have become chronically tight. I would stretch them out and it was like an elastic band, they would stretch and then snap back in. This has caused me a lot of pain and discomfort for many years. Read the rest of this entry »
Dealing with shame.
Dealing with shame.
Dealing with shame is a difficult and delicate process. Paradoxically in order to heal our shame we need to expose it. Everyone to some degree experiences shame. When the world fails to fulfill our desires, shame develops as a result of interpersonal disconnection. At these times we are exposed, cut off and separated by the responses to our requests. These responses range from confusion and misunderstanding to anger, judgment and humiliation. This leaves us feeling that what we want is unwelcome and disgusting. We develop a connection to our desires and ultimately ourselves as shameful. As a result of our shame, and in an effort to prevent our self from experiencing the shame, we disown these aspects of ourselves. Read the rest of this entry »
