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Hey everyone, this is episode number 12 of the Absolute Mind podcast, and today I'll be talking about self-esteem and how I can give you

some handy tips to build your self-esteem back up to a level where you think you're worthy.

As always at the end of the podcast there will be a hypnosis section which you can all keep

and continue to listen from this day forth and continue learning. So let's get talking about

self-esteem. Do you always feel low about yourself

or just feeling that you're simply not good enough for anything? The world of low self-esteem can

simply, it can be hardgoing on you, just you alone. You can raise your levels of self-esteem

with some nice handy tips that I've got for you at the end of the podcast.

So what is self-esteem?

Self-esteem is a particular measure of how you see yourself or how you think about yourself, how you feel about you in relation to other people that you have contact with and even passes by in the street. If you're constantly thinking that

other people are better than you in all ways, you will as a result feel a lack of confidence and have

some feelings of anxiety and have a general negative outlook on your own life. I always say to clients,

this is where you're being unfair on you. Would you really

allow your friends or a stranger to make you feel the way that you make yourself feel? And having this

negative outlook on yourself means you can't and you most certainly aren't giving the best of you in situations

that you need it to be. You may find that life's much more of a struggle and it's actually,

it can be easy, but you're making a struggle on you. So how you see yourself is what self-esteem is.

And a lot of people get this confused with self-confidence,

but in order to have the self-confidence, your self-esteem needs to be in the right place

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