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Originally Posted by George H.
I don't know about that. I don't believe at all in "positive mantras" but I believe that you can do things to give yourself a higher opinion of yourself. If you volunteered at a homeless shelter or visited with the elderly or got involved in animal rescue... something that helps make the world a better pllace...would those acts increase your self esteem and make you feel more worthwhile and lovable?
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Absolutely - I do volunteer work. I do volunteer work at the political organization I am involved with and love it there, I participate in Earth Day activities, am a regular blood donor, I will be participating in the Four Corners Walk for the Eradication of Poverty, and other things. When I am working, I would like to do some yoga, too.
I don't find an improvement in my self-esteem doing these things because what is defective and hard for me to accept about myself is still defective and hard for me to accept with or without doing them.
Maybe I dwell too much on everything wrong with me, but what few positive qualities exist about me are overwhelmed by what's defective and wrong about me.