Do you really Love Yourself? We have talked too much about self-esteem, self-discovery, self-love, and that way of living that is only healthy if we respect ourselves. It is important to cultivate our self-esteem and know how it is at all times, that is, do we love ourselves enough? This issue is essential to never face failure in life and that, to give ourselves the value we deserve. But there...
Self-compassion involves being sincere and understanding of ourselves when we suffer, or rejected, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or flagellating (punishing) ourselves with self-criticism. When there is self-compassion we recognize that the human being is imperfect and thus, with all our defects, it will be inevitable to experience difficulties in life, so we must tend to be kind to ourselves when we face painful experiences, instead to...
What is self sabotage? Self-sabotage is an act tending to hinder an achievement through unconscious manipulations directed towards oneself. The goal of self-sabotage is to stay within the comfort zone, within which everything is easy or, at least, predictable. It is also a type of defense mechanism through which the person tries to avoid possible challenges, future suffering, stressful or unfamiliar situations. According to Enrique Monforte, (psychologist and Master in...
How to accept yourself is one of the most important things you must learn in life! The fact that perhaps your parents or colleagues did not admit you, as you are since childhood, criticized you or compared you with other people, may be the ‘hidden’ causes that you cannot accept yourself either. However, this is a situation that you should not learn to live in. To change the important thing...
Self-efficacy is a concept introduced in 1977 by Albert Bandura, a Canadian psychologist and professor at Stanford University, recognized for his work on social learning theory. The ideas of self-efficacy, in addition to having generating sources, manage to activate a set of spaces to implement them, known as processes that are activated from the strength of beliefs. In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together...