Unveiling the Link Between Self-Value and Physiology

Your Body is Responding to Your Perception of Yourself

Your Body is Responding to Your Perception of YourselfSonia Barrett – Self-value and self-perception is often not at the forefront of our awareness, yet they shape every aspect of our internal and external experiences. What we believe about ourselves—consciously or subconsciously—become the silent architect of how our body operates. Our physiology is constantly responding to these internal interpretations, even when we’re not fully aware of them.

Most of these responses are so familiar that we normalize them. We don’t always connect the dots between how we feel about ourselves and what’s happening in our body. But there’s something much bigger going on. Continue reading

From Fear to Freedom: Embrace a Golden-Rule Life for Solutions

From Fear to Freedom: Embrace a Golden-Rule Life for SolutionsPaul Rosenberg – I don’t recommend watching television, but I fell into one useful experience while watching it, some years ago:

It was well after midnight and I found myself in front of a TV, killing time. There wasn’t much on, but after some scanning, I found a rustic infomercial from a local church. They were offering prayer for the sick, depressed, and overwhelmed. My thumb was poised to move to the next channel, but instead I stopped and watched. I decided to look at the people in the pews—to really look at them. Continue reading

Make Self-Love A Lifestyle

Self love is the keyMichael Eisen – We need to make self-love a lifestyle, not just a practice! I truly believe that the root cause of the majority of the challenges and problems that we as humans face is a lack of self-love, self-worth and self-respect. This is the true epidemic that we face at this time in our evolution.

The funny thing is, though: we are all born with the natural ability to love, respect and value ourselves. It is not something we need to learn how to do as we grow up – for the most of us it is something we just need to remember. If you don’t believe me, go spend some time with a 2 year old. They will show you how easy it is to love and value ourselves. Continue reading

A Simple Practice to Boost Confidence and Self Esteem

Boost Confidence and Self EsteemDavid R. Hamilton PhD. – We all wear our emotions on our body.

You smile when you’re happy, frown when you’re sad, and tense your shoulders when you’re stressed. You walk tall when you feel good and look down when you feel self conscious.

These things are not intentional. They happen automatically.

It’s because language is relatively recent in the whole span of human evolution. Our ancient ancestors communicated their intentions and feelings using body language and gesture. Over time, a link simply formed between how we feel and its physical expression. Continue reading

Energy Expansion, Limitation, and Fear of Change

self esteemJennifer Hoffman – Why is it that no matter how much we may want or need to change something stops us in our tracks when we get to a certain point? In spite of every promise we make to ourselves this time we’ll cross the finish line, we get stopped before we do. Our desire for energy expansion gets stopped by the limitations we have to protect us from expanding our energy into unknown potentials and it’s about our fear of change and our desire to avoid painful consequences.

There comes a time on every path when we ‘run out of energy road’, we want something different and the energy we have available to us is just not going to fulfill that need. So we set an intention to expand and we move in that direction and then we get stuck. There are several reasons for that and they are very important as they deal with our basic needs and our most profound fears. Continue reading