Self Mastery Options To Overcome Emotional Difficulties
April 16, 2009 by John Taylor
Filed under Self Mastery
Emotional interruptions often get in the way of happiness, and can cause you to feel depressed. When you are depressed, you will become lazy, and not feel like doing anything productive. The emotional difficulties can interrupt your entire life, and in the end, drain the life out of you. It takes a lot of energy to deal with emotions. For this reason, we must find ways to express our emotions and feelings without causing harm to someone.
When you feel angry, instead of bursting out in anger, count to three or take a walk until you calm down. Take control of your emotions and mental strengths by assessing the problem closer, and in a broader light. Most of the problems you may face are usually related to misconceptions. By looking at the bigger picture and learning something new each day, you can retrain your mind to think like a professional. It is the process of becoming master over your emotions, mental, and physical strengths.
Once you get depressed, it’s hard to get out of it. Fighting off depression is difficult and for some it seems impossible. If you suffer from depression constantly, realize that this is an illness and seeking help is not to be frowned upon. If people are telling you ‘to get over it’ and you can’t – see someone about it.
What will happen if I don’t get over depression?
There is a lot that can happen if you don’t get help for depression. Many have gotten to the point that they don’t want to live anymore and some have even taken their life. This may sound extreme to some of you, but it’s not. Therefore, you need to try to take a hold of this; and get rid of it as soon as you are able. There is help for you if you want it. There is medication and people who are trained to help you deal with this. For some of you that want to fight this on your own you will have to have a lot of will power. This is something that you have to work on all day and night ever day.
How would one go about trying to get rid of depression?
When wanting to get rid of depression you will have to find out what is causing you to be this way and try to get rid of it. This could be your job, the people that you talk to, if you have drinking problems and trying to quit or even getting of drugs. You should go and just spend some time by yourself and think about what is going on to cause this depression. This can be done if you want to bad enough.
How would you go about getting rid of this?
When trying to get rid of depression you have to be able to keep it together. This means your going to have to use your self-mastering skills. Every one has self mastery skills, but the truth is we don’t always use them. Therefore, this would be a good time to start using them. You can be free of emotional difficulties in your life if you analyze the seed of the problem and set about letting it go.
Symptoms of Low Self Esteem
August 18, 2008 by John Taylor
Filed under Self Mastery
Low self esteem can be hard to spot if you do not know what to look for. Some people may appear to be on top of the world one day, and depressed the next day.
Trying to help those with low self esteem may find themselves in a bit of a quandary: how do they tell which people have low self esteem? Well, as with any psychological problems, there are certain symptoms that you might want to watch out for.
What are the symptoms of low self esteem?
1) Anxiety and fear – People with low self esteem frequently feel afraid or anxious. This symptom of low self esteem can actually be the least visible. Anxiety and fear are experienced by people who think that there is something wrong with them and that people will notice. They often try to hide their imperfections behind facades of accomplishments. However, should they make a slight mistake, they fear that people will discover them for the frauds they think they are.
2) Depression – Some people get depressed when they think that they haven’t done a thing properly. This is often observable to other people. This symptom of low self esteem can even be felt by other people just by being near a person. You see, people just give off an aura of sadness when they are depressed, and others notice it. Depressed people often try to hide their depression but somehow, they often end up making their depression obvious.
3) Hypersensitivity - Of course, people who have low self esteem can be overly sensitive to comments or observations from their peers. This symptom of low self esteem can show itself in the way of a person overreacting even if he or she is not the one being criticized. Somehow, they feel that the world is always keeping a criticizing eye on them.
4) Hyper vigilance – This symptom of low self esteem can actually be observed in “perfectionists”. Hyper vigilance is when a person with low self esteem takes extreme care not to make any mistakes. Now while people may agree that always being prepared can be a good thing, most people find that preparing for anything can be a bit paranoid.
Hyper vigilance may be a way of trying to prove to other people and mostly to him or her self that a person can handle anything that comes his or her way.
5) Workaholics – Most people with low self esteem tend to gravitate towards the place where they feel most achieving. In the workplace, people know what is expected of them and how to do it. People with low self esteem suffer symptoms of avoiding the social scene by pouring their energy into work.
6) Unreasonable expectations of the self and other people – One symptom of low self esteem is always saying the phrase “I should have” or “you should have”. This shows that you are expecting things of yourself and other people that just cannot be reasonable. Because of low self esteem, people tend to blame themselves for any small happening.


