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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Boost your Self Esteem TODAY!

Things You Can Do Right Away to raise your Self-Esteem:
By: Jasvinder Seehra Chauhan



* Pay attention to your own needs and wants. Listen to what your body, your mind, and your heart are telling you. This is a great exercise for becoming more aware of your feelings and sensations. I would suggest you do activities slowly to get a real awareness. For example:eat slower to find out if you enjoy the food, bath slower to feel whatever sensations the water brings up on your skin, read slower to see how your passage in your book is making you feel, etc...(think of noticing all your senses: touch, smell, auditory, taste, sight)

* Plan fun activities for yourself: something you enjoy....even on your own

* Learn new things: Is there anything that you've wanted to join or learn that you didn't have the courage to do because you wanted someone else to do it with you---join it!!! See what happens.

* Do things that make use of your own special talents and abilities.

* Spend time with people who make you feel good about yourself. Avoid people who make you feel badly

* Watch out when allowing yourself to say or think negative thoughts about yourself.Replace these thoughts with something that is authentically positive about yourself



* Make affirmation lists for yourself:

-10 strengths you have

-10 things you admire about yourself

-10 accomplishments you've had

-10 things you can do to make yourself laugh



Visualization Exercise:

* Sit or lie down comfortably. Straighten your back and put your shoulders back resting on the chair/sofa to open up your rib-cage. Relax your shoulder muscles particularly. Relax your whole body, and empty your mind.

* Close your eyes except to read when needed.

* Take ten deep, slow breaths.Breathe deeply from the pit of your stomach and feel your lungs filling. Focus on your breathing. Feel it getting deeper and slower. Feel yourself relaxing and any tension drifting away.

* Relax your shoulders and neck again.

* Visualize yourself being happy,succeeding, winning, being loved, laughing, feeling good.

* Relax your forehead, your jaw,your mouth and your eyes.

* Allow yourself to feel a calmness enter your mind.

* Say (out load) an authentically positive statement or paragraph to yourself—one example is the one below—you can revise this and make it your own:



i am



I am good person.



I have integrity.



I do what is ethically right and good.



Whatever life puts before me willbe useful experience that will make me stronger, wiser, and more tolerant.



I am strong enough to understandand make allowances for other people's weaknesses, and their behaviour towards me. Other people's behaviour is about them, not me.



I focus on the joy of living my life and helping others where and when I can.



I am what I eat and drink, so I eat and drink good things.



I am what I watch and play and listen, so I watch and play and listen to good positive things.



I take exercise which I enjoy. I walk when I don't need to drive or take the bus or train.



I smile and laugh whenever I can -life is good - getting caught in the rain reminds me that it is good to be alive to feel it.



I forgive other people. Deep down everyone is a good person, just like me.



I am a compassionate and loving,caring person.



I am a good person.



I am.




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Jasvinder Seehra Chauhan BSc. (O.T.), O.T. Reg. (Ont.)
Lead Occupational Therapist
Gestalt Psychotherapist

Since 1997, Jasvinder Seehra Chauhan has been pursuing her lifework as a therapist. Her expertise has been proven successful from community care for people with disabilities, work in the auto industry, women who are having difficulities with being single, couples in distress to families with problems. She is formally trained as an Occupational Therapist and Gestalt Psychotherapist. Her practicing philosophy is:

"One who consistently grows and heals through life's adversity first hand, is also one who is best to guide others."


Personally, she is from a large family that consists of many women, so she understands the issues women face firsthand. She has also endured some challenges during her 'single' years and therefore can relate to the type of issues single women face in today's society. As well, Jasvinder has years of practicing with the Community care Access Centre of Peel in schools.

She firmly believes that any person can be or achieve anything in life with some support from another, such as, a therapist. Jasvinder thrives on helping individuals find their passion, empowerment, inspiration and enthusiasm for life through private sessions and unique group programs.