Self-Empowerment, Self-Esteem Empowerment, Empowerment Exercises

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Four Ways To Self-Empowerment

Here are four ways to self-empowerment. The best and easiest personal empowerment exercises that I use every day and have helped transform my life are below.

None of these exercises are a quick fix forever. You become a product of your habits over time. If you introduce and practice a new habit such as the ones below, even for five seconds, you will experience personal self-empowerment.

1. Be In Your Body

About two finger-widths below your belly button is the area that could be thought of as your physical and energy centre. It is a place that martial artists and masters of eastern practices such as Tai Chi and Qigong are aware of and they regard as a place of power. Referred to as dantien, you could also imagine
your breath starts and finishes here. When you have your awareness on this internal centre you feel more relaxed, calm, present and powerful…try it, practice it, meditate on it.

2. Be Directly Conscious Of Your True Nature

Beyond the experience of your thoughts and emotions there is something more real. To be directly conscious of your true nature helps you to de-identify with your thoughts and emotions. You are not your emotions you have emotions. You are not your thoughts you have thoughts. Practice watching with awareness.

3. Be 100% Responsible

You can live two ways; either live as if everything you experience is your responsibility, or pick and choose which experiences you want to take responsibility for.

4. Always Reach For A Slightly Better Feeling

Feelings can be thought of as a spectrum rather than each ones as separate entities. At one end of the spectrum you have deep depression and suicidal thoughts. At the other end you have peace and contentment. Because feelings exist on a spectrum you can always do something or think something that moves you a bit closer to the next feeling higher up on the spectrum. You can read extensively about this in the book Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks.

Raising Self Esteem, Overcoming Low Self Esteem, Ways To Improve Self Esteem, Raise Your Self Esteem, Boosting Self Esteem

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The Process of Raising Self-Esteem

The process of raising self esteem is simple but not necessarily easy. Simple in the fact that all it requires is a transformation in consciousness from denial and fear to acceptance and love.

It is not necessarily easy because the belief that you are a separate, completely independent thing is strong and convincing.

One way of raising self esteem is to take your belief that you are a thing and pump up the beliefs about what that thing is like. In short you change your self image for a better one.

You can attempt to focus on something that you believe to be true about yourself that makes you feel a bit more worthy and acceptable. By the way, in doing this the parts that you don’t like about yourself don’t actually disappear they just get ignored.

This might seem like a result however it will likely cause greater problems for you at a later date in some way.

Just as if you are repairing or cleaning something and you try and do just enough so that what is immediately visible looks OK, deep down you feel a nagging that you haven’t quite done a proper job. You know it will have to be faced at a later date. Or you feel a false sense of achievement that you have got a way with it. It is like you feel clever for taking the easy way out and achieving your task.

How does it feel when you know you have really done a thorough job and you know your repair will last? Just like rust in a car or a hole in a sock the section needs to be completely rebuilt and reintegrated into the whole.

So it is with the ego and the Self. The ego is who and what you think you are. You might think you are kind and polite and this and that. Or you might think you are stupid and pathetic and mean and cruel. Whatever self image you have is your ego.

Your ego is just your idea and becomes the focus of your life. It is what you then interpret life’s events through.

Just as the rust in the car would attract the eye and the attention and make you miss seeing the car as a whole so to we end up focusing on the self image and miss seeing and feeling the whole experience. By the whole experience I mean the experience of being part of the whole, connected to all that there is, divine, Self.

The process of raising self esteem is to bit by bit transform your awareness from the ego to the whole. When you meditate the ego takes a back seat. When you sit across from another person and feel their energy and really get what they are communicating the ego takes a back seat. There are many many ways of accomplishing this task of deidentifying with the ego and reidentifying with the whole.

Why does this raise your self esteem? Because genuine self esteem is a product of your awareness, acceptance and love of the truth. It is not something you build up and pump up, it is something that comes because you see how futile it is to continue trying to be something or not trying to be something.

Some people try to always be right, some people try never to be rude. Some people try and be cool, other people try and never be wrong. This is all ego and genuine self-esteem can never come
through rearranging, pumping up or resisting the ego.