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I've written a lot about low self-esteem all over the internet. I thought it might be useful to collect some of the most popular tips in one place. So first... What is self-esteem? To put it simply, it's a measure of how you think and feel about yourself in relation to other people.

Doctors have long observed the immense power of expectation in medical settings. The well-known 'placebo effect' might just as well be called the 'expectation effect'. Are your expectations generally positive? What do you expect for yourself and others? For your future health, wealth, and happiness?

Your brain can learn in more ways than just consciously. In fact, much of what you’ve learned in your life has been absorbed in other-than-conscious ways. From your native language, your body language, your taste in food, and your sense of humor to your attitude towards your work, your self-concept, and the way you relate to your significant others, none of these are things that people learn consciously and deliberately.

Some things are possible, and some things are not, but the boundary between them isn't always as easy to determine as we might imagine. We often set the boundary ourselves, decreeing that "I can't do that" when there is no objective rational reason why 'that' is impossible. We just believe that it's impossible. And that means that we often don't do things we might want to do, or might like to do, and are perfectly capable of doing, because they're on the other side of the ima

A great many self-help books and motivational speakers tell you that if you just "believe in yourself" and trust in your own abilities, you’ll be sure to succeed in life. What they often don’t tell you is how to actually go about doing this. If you’ve sometimes doubted your own abilities, if you get nervous or self-conscious at times, or you let opportunities in life pass you by because you don’t have enough faith in yourself to pursue them, how can you develop greater trust

Sometimes things just work out well even when you didn’t expect them to – seemingly against the odds. We put this down to luck. “Boy that was lucky!” But maybe most so-called luck isn’t just luck. Or, to put it another way, luck isn’t something that happens to us, but something we make happen. Something we can attract. What if luck was a muscle that you can develop and encourage?

Do you wake up each morning feeling lethargic, sluggish, overwhelmed or apathetic about work and the day ahead of you? Or maybe there’s an obstacle that continues to occupy your mind at every moment. Like many people, you want to be focused and feel successful, but no matter how many cups of coffee you drink, you never get to that place where you are saying, “I feel like I can take on anything put in front of me.” If this sounds familiar, it may be time for you to discover th

Hypnosis is a highly effective approach for creating positive changes in your personality. Hypnosis helps you deeply connect with your strengths and shape your self-image, which can help you radically change your life for the better.

Perhaps you can think of a time you avoided a particular situation, or you didn’t participate in a particular activity, because you didn’t want to risk making a mistake and looking foolish in front of others. Or maybe you can recall getting negative feedback from a boss, or a bad mark in an exam, and it felt really painful, maybe even devastating to you at the time. These are signs that, at least at times in life, you’ve been operating from a fixed mindset, as opposed to a gr

Just because you feel an urge to be negative about yourself doesn’t mean you have to allow it to happen. When you tame your own thinking, and learn to talk to yourself in a calmer, fairer, more civilized way, you’re using the same principles you’ve already learned for how to act in public, and how to speak appropriately to other people, and applying them to your own mind. Therapeutic hypnosis can help you learn to bring civilization to your mind, so that you can treat yoursel

I’ve heard countless people tell me about how they spend all day criticizing themselves in the privacy of their own minds. Why do they do this? Sometimes it’s because people have impossibly high standards—they feel like they need to do everything absolutely perfectly, and if they make even the smallest mistake, they tell themselves that they’re a total failure, and they might feel an overwhelming sense of guilt that’s completely disproportionate to the little thing they did w

Hypnotherapy helps you to be much consistently more encouraging and supportive towards yourself, so that you that you give yourself a fair chance in life, and stay strong even when you’re faced with challenges or criticism from others. Because when you really start to believe in yourself, and in your potential to grow and develop, that kind of positive attitude will bring out the very best in you, so that you are able to draw on all of your strengths and resources as a human

There was a time in her life when Sophie thought she would never, ever, be able to do what you see her doing in the photo below. But there she is, giving a lecture in front of a packed audience, a lecture that includes the dreaded 'question time' at the end, and thoroughly enjoying the whole thing.

Have you ever felt like a tiger trapped in a cage? Are you in a situation where you feel cornered with no way out? Is there something creative and passionate inside you, waiting to come out, but you’re holding back for some reason, perhaps out of fear or a sense of lack? Whatever it might be, you could have had high hopes in the beginning for any one of the above scenarios, but over time it hasn’t turned out the way you were expecting. And now you feel stuck and don’t know wh

For a creative professional, a creative block isn’t just frustrating — it’s potentially career-damaging. When you rely on your creativity to pay the bills and build your reputation, you can’t afford to be short of ideas or the energy to put them into action. Struggling for (new) ideas? It happens to the best of us — so here are twenty proven tips to see those inspirational juices flowing again.

Boost your persuasion skills at work and in any social scenario with these five proven "power words", that will change the direction of any conversation you have.

Self-confidence is a psychological quality related to (but distinct from) self-esteem. Having high levels of self-confidence can have huge benefits for all areas of an individual’s life, including relationships, career and social life. Self-confidence isn't there just to make you feel good. We need self-confidence to drive our aspirations to make them real; it's as much a vehicle as a destination in itself. What's more, when you are self-confident others feel it and can't hel

As a hypnotherapist, I help people live a better life. I give people advice every day – advice that makes a difference. But that said, self-improvement can sometimes be overwhelming, especially if you’re trying to change a number of things at once and you’re not sure where to start. If you’re stuck in a rut, and would like to discover a powerful self-hypnosis practice that streamlines your focus so you can make the right kind of changes to your life, check out the steps below

People have spent so much time trying to focus and work within the rules and be in line with correct thinking, that we have lost our ability to put faith in the power of our natural mental ability. But what if you were able to let down your guard? What if you could overcome the blocks you have placed in your mind and remove your inability to thinking through issues and finding solutions? Imagine the power you could generate!