How to improve self-esteem

1. You come first always.
2. Think of your success stories.
3. You have created a proud family and/ or a family is proud of you. Delve into that aspect and get your family’s positive feedback or assume so, even if it may not be so.
4. Respect other’s self esteem however low they are in others’ or your personal opinion, and then do reflect on what you have of yourself.
5. You are sane so far. And that goes to some extent to prove you have not yet lost self-esteem after all.
6. What you think is what it is-- basing on Tip # 5. So you must be right.
7. Do such acts or at least think on the lines that in your experience have built or build up further esteem in your own self.
8. Forget the feedbacks of others who are not close to you when the same were negative in your opinion. (Mind you must recognize their right to hold such opinion on you as you have such right to hold such negative opinions against them.)
9. Pray to God to give you more and more confidence as after all you are his creation.
10. Thank me for giving you the above tips.

Note: All said and done self-respect is what one grows with and known best to oneself. The above tips are indicative only and what all I could give in one go, off the cuff; when someone has recently asked me. I hope they would be useful to at least some who need them most.

We hear more on stress management

Channeling our stress in the right direction is another way out among the inexhaustible list of tips that abound in the area of stress management these days.

Generally people are of the opinion they could handle their stress by themselves and feel that there is no need for any outside help. But I think it is wrong. In such an event, they would only be treating themselves with some home truths that might be unique to their family traditions and backgrounds and the problem might take longer time still involving further stress and efforts to mitigate stress.

Like in the West, it is high time the Orient realized stress factor as just another bodily ailment we suffer, albeit effecting our mind and behavioral adjustments, be that in the very ordinary situations like getting exam stress and love stress and went for counseling/ and literature on stress management (at least by those who are educated).

The old stigma associated with people known for going to a psychiatrist or psychologist is no more a big thing these days, at least in modern households. Whatever be the case, those who go for ways and means to relieve their stress fare better in cure than those who get themselves mired in their own stress and helplessly suffer alone.