Increase your self-esteem by understanding fear (1 minute read)

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding how feelings can become opposite – Reversal” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding how feelings can become opposite – Reversal Reversal is an immature defense mechanism described already by Freud. It includes transforming something into its opposite….

This post “Increase your self-esteem by identifying your coping strategies for managing strong feelings and anxiety” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Identify your coping strategies for managing strong feelings and anxiety: The tricky thing with defense mechanisms is that they are difficult to identify. Since they are…

This post “Increase your self-esteem by managing fear” is about how you can increase your self-esteem by understanding your feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by managing fear: This post continues with fear. As mentioned in the last post, fear is a powerful, primitive and lifesaving emotion. Fear makes us aware of dangers and entails important…

Here the post “Increase your self-esteem by  deliberate compensation” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by deliberate compensation: There are several more mature defense mechanisms than the ones suggested by the psychiatrist Vaillant and which have been the topic of the last posts….

This post “Increase your self-esteem by understanding how fantasies can help you” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by managing your thoughts and feelings.   Increase your self-esteem by understanding how fantasies can help you: Healthy fantasy is also about escaping real problems and uncomfortable situations by diving into literature, TV and Internet. For fantasies…

Here are some final comments before leaving the concept of flow, a key we can actively get more of in our daily life leading to more joy as well as increased self-esteem.   Positive psychology is a direction within psychology that focuses on how we can stimulate the presence and frequency of positive emotions, such…