You are as amazing as you let yourself be.
Let me repeat that:
You are as amazing as you let yourself be. -Elizabeth Alraune
Throughout life, you become more self-aware and build certain images of yourself as a result of experiences with different people and situations such as experiences during childhood- how you were treated by your family, teachers and others, how your failures and victories were handled and what was modelled to you. All these contribute to the formation of your self-esteem. Simply put, self-esteem is the overall evaluation of yourself, your overall sense of worth or personal value. It is can be high or low.
Having a low self-esteem involves having a negative attitude towards yourself resulting in hating rather than loving yourself. The following are some attributes of people with low self-esteem:
- Feeling worthless
- Getting depressed easily
- Seeking approval from others to feel good.
- Constant self –blame
- Lack of confidence
- Eating disorders
- Social withdrawal
On the other hand, having a high self-esteem involves having a positive attitude towards yourself, resulting in loving yourself completely. These are some attributes of people with a high self-esteem:
- More self-respect
- Self-approval
- Feeling worthy of Love and approval
- Complete acceptance of themselves (they know that they have flaws and make mistakes but are willing to become better)
- Self-confidence
- Sense of direction
- Adventurous (open to changes)
- Sense of purpose
- Consciously enjoy life
- Have successful relationships
Breaking away from the limitations of having negative attitude towards yourself will involve consciously eliminating old patterns of negative beliefs and attitudes and building new patterns that promote positive attitude towards yourself.
MINDFULNESS AS A TOOL TO BOOST YOUR SELF-ESTEEM
Mindfulness is a way of living your life such that you are conscious of the present moment. It has to do with awareness and non-judgemental acceptance of your thoughts and emotions.
Being mindful will help you build a more positive self-esteem in the following ways:
- When you are mindful, you are in control of what you do. Therefore you can choose to love yourself better.
- With mindfulness, you are able to regulate your emotions.
- It will help train your mind to observe thoughts, feelings and sensations objectively.
- It helps in developing more self-acceptance and helps you build compassion for others too. When you accept yourself, then you can love yourself more.
Watch yourself become better as you build on your self-esteem by practicing mindfulness. Your life becomes less complicated and you find more happiness when you love yourself more. To find out more about mindfulness visit: wwww.mobilehealthconsult.org .
Remember, it is easier to love other people when you love yourself.
For children to perform better on mental tasks, they need environments and interactions that help expand their intellects and mental abilities. Cognitive development is a continuous process of discovering, sorting, classifying, evaluating, visualizing, understanding and using information to solve problems. Childhood is not only a period of amazing physical growth, it is also a time of remarkable mental development. Cognitive abilities associated with memory, reasoning, problem-solving and thinking continue to emerge throughout childhood.
The whole process a child uses to organize information involves;
- Acquiring information (perception)
- Selecting information (Attention)
- Representing information (Understanding)
- Retaining information (memory)
- Usage of the information to guide behaviour (reasoning and coordination of motor outputs).
Therefore, enhancing cognitive function of a child is directed at improving any of these.
You can improve on the cognitive function of your kids and have smarter kids by using any of the following:
- Brain Training Games:
these are computerized and non-computerized games aimed at enhancing brain function and improving memory, examples of brain training games include Brainware safari, Smart Brain Training, Number racer & Logico. These will help to :
- Improve working memory
- Increase targeted skills such as logical and mathematical skills
- Improve concentration and perception abilities
- Improve problem solving and idea association skills
- Improving reasoning skills
- Achieve focus
- Increase attention span
- Audio-Visual Entrainment Devices
Audio-Visual Entrainment devices (A.V.E) influences brainwaves and is an extremely effective, non-invasive method of rapidly re-educating the brain’s natural ‘balance-point’. By flashing lights through an eye set and pulsing tones through headphones, gently guiding the child into various brainwave states. After a short period of time, the brain begins produce the same frequency as at when it is needed. The use of Audio-Visual Entrainment devices (A.V.E) will help your child in the following ways:
- Increase SMR brain waves to improve attention, focus and concentration
- Help assimilation of new information thereby improving working memory.
- Help to accelerate learning
- Improve your child’s mental performance
- Enhance creativity
- Improve problem solving skills
- Expand perception
- Improve whole brain function by balancing the two hemispheres of the brain
- Mindfulness:
This involves children actively paying attention to their emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment in a non-judgemental manner. mindfulness aims at:
- Improving attention and focus leading to better performance
- Improving assimilation thereby boosting retention ability
- Reducing stress
- Improving resilience.
- Boosting self-esteem.
- Building a better ability to regulate one-self.
- Improving mood
- Improving both physical and mental health.
Making the right investment for your children is the one of the greatest investments for life. For more information on any of these services visit: http//www.mobilehealthconsult.org.
