This post “Self-esteem: How your body stops you from harming yourself by too much stress” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by paying attention to your feelings. Self-esteem: How your body stops you from harming yourself by too much stress (1 minute read) Feelings correspond to behavioural and motivational impulses that are…
This post “Self-esteem: How unexpected life events can harm us” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by paying attention to your feelings. Self-esteem: How unexpected life events can harm us: Feelings correspond to behavioural and motivational impulses that are important for our survival and for signaling our human needs to us. As previously mentioned,…
This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding the human security system” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by paying attention to your feelings. Increase your self-esteem by understanding the human security system: As mentioned in earlier posts, one of the characteristics of feelings is that they each correspond to behavioural and motivational…
This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding the human drive system” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by listening to your feelings. Increase your self-esteem by understanding the human drive system: As mentioned in earlier posts, one of the characteristics of feelings is that they each correspond to behavioural and motivational impulses…
This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding the threat system” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by listening to your feelings. Increase your self-esteem by understanding the threat system: As mentioned in earlier posts, one of the characteristics of feelings is that they each correspond to behavioural and motivational impulses that are…
This post “Increase your self-esteem by standing up against the inner critic” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by listening to your feelings and heal self-destructive shame. Increase your self-esteem by standing up against the inner critic: One way of reducing self-critical shame is to become more self-compassionate. Last post was about…
Here continues a summary of my posts on how to recover as quickly as possible from stress and exhaustion. In my daily work with people who have sought help for problems with stress and fatigue, I have been able to distinguish 3 building blocks in stress management: 1) Regulate your stress level, se techniques in…
Here continues a summary of my posts on how to recover as quickly as possible from stress and exhaustion. In my daily work with people who have sought help for problems with stress and fatigue, I have been able to distinguish 3 building blocks in stress management: 1) Regulate your stress level, se techniques in…
Today’s post continues with Antonovsky’s concept Sense of Coherence that focuses on handling stressors and how health can be increased (see link to Mittelmark et al in earlier posts for research in this field). What determines whether stress will be harmful or not is whether or not the stress violates our sense of coherence. This…
Here continues a summary of my posts on how to recover as quickly as possible from stress. This post continues with how to handle stressful thoughts, such as anxiety and rumination, as it is crucial to learn to steer one’s thoughts in order to reduce the stress level and create conditions for recovery. You can…