¡Holaa, amigos de Hive ❤️! | ¡Hi, friends of Hive❤️!
Hoy quisiera comentarles de un tema que está presente en la realidad de muchas personas inclusive sin saberlo, siendo una de sus principales inseguridades: la autoestima o mejor dicho la baja autoestima que nos afecta en muchísimos ambitos de nuestra vida.
Today I would like to tell you about a topic that is present in the reality of many people, even without knowing it, being one of the main insecurities: the self-esteem or rather the low self-esteem that affects us in many areas of our lives.
La autoestima es la valoración positiva que posee cada uno y la cual permitirá desenvolverse en un entorno bien sea familiar o social, permitiendo compartir con el otro emociones, sentimientos que ayuden al fortalecimiento y al autocontrol en favor del desarrollo de la personalidad por lo tanto una baja autoestima nos limita en muchos aspectos de nuestra vida.
Self-esteem is the positive valuation that each one has and which will allow to develop in a family or social environment, allowing to share with the other emotions, feelings that help to strengthen and self-control in favor of personality development therefore a low self-esteem limits us in many aspects of our life.
Mi papá y yo, en esta foto tenía 13 años. | My dad and me, in this photo I was 13 years old.
A pesar de que nunca lo comenté, algo en mí había cambiado y recibí una cantidad de consejos que no funcionaban, como por ejemplo:
- Buscar siempre un lado positivo, este sería un graaan consejo, si no fuera porque es realmente complicado hacerlo, mi mente (no se si la de todos, pero estoy muy segura que la mía sí) retiene muy rápido los comentarios negativos, así que no era de mucha ayuda.
- Intenta ser feliz y ya Bueno... Estémm, mientras más te esfuerzas en ser feliz, más infeliz eres, creo que el truco de ser feliz es ser feliz y ya, sin pensar mucho.
- Reprogramar mi mente con afirmaciones positivas Se trata de una corriente de pensamiento positivo con la cual tu intentas que tú mente crea lo que le dices. Así que si te repites mantras como “Soy una persona extraordinaria y merezco que me amen”, tu mente lo creera y empezarás a sentirte como alguien extraordinario. Me sucedía que inmediatamente mi mente me respondía en un ¿Por qué?...así que no funciona
Although I never commented on it, something in me had changed and I received a lot of advice that did not work, for example:
- Always look for a positive side, this would be a great advice, if it wasn't because it is really complicated to do it, my mind (I don't know if everyone's, but I'm pretty sure mine does) retains very fast the negative comments, so it wasn't much help.
- Just try to be happy Well... Estémm, the harder you try to be happy, the more unhappy you are, I think the trick to being happy is to just be happy, without thinking too much.
- Reprogramming my mind with positive affirmations This is a stream of positive thinking with which you try to make your mind believe what you tell it. So if you repeat mantras like "I am an extraordinary person and I deserve to be loved", your mind will believe it and you will start to feel like someone extraordinary. It used to happen to me that immediately my mind would respond in a Why?...so it doesn't work.
These tips accompanied by several attempts to fit in with others, I tried to exercise and ate a lot, finally I got frustrated because I understood that as long as I did things to please others, I would never feel enough, which dragged me to end up doing things that took me away from my personality and that did not allow me to be myself. I know how complicated it is to try a thousand things and not get any result, you feel totally guilty and you feel that the problem is you, but I am going to tell you about things that really helped me to overcome my problem, they are small things but they help a lot:
- No compararte: suena inofensivo y muchas personas dicen que "funciona como motivación" pero, oye, aquí no queremos engañar a nadie, no hay una situación más dañina para nuestra autoestima que compararnos con alguien más, entiende que todos somos diferentes y poseemos distintos defectos pero también virtudes.
- Identifica tus fortalezas, no necesariamente deben ser físicas y cada vez que te sientas juzgado o cuestionado, repasa mentalmente tu lista de fortalezas. Aceptar las cosas como son: Debemos comprender que no somos perfectos y la intención no es serlo. Así que debes esforzarte en aceptar tanto tus fortalezas como defectos, entendiendo que estos te hacen distinto y unico, así como entender que hay actividades que no las haremos bien, que no tenemos las habilidades para eso y que podemos aprenderlas. Pero, no centrarnos solo en lo negativo, no restemos importancia a lo positivo.
- Sal de tu zona de confort y haz cosas nuevas, sin miedo al fracaso, es parte de la vida.
- Don't compare yourself: it sounds harmless and many people say that "it works as motivation" but, hey, we don't want to fool anyone here, there is no situation more harmful to our self-esteem than comparing ourselves with someone else, understand that we are all different and have different flaws but also virtues.
- Identify your strengths, they do not necessarily have to be physical and every time you feel judged or questioned, mentally review your list of strengths. Accept things as they are: We must understand that we are not perfect and the intention is not to be perfect. So you must strive to accept both your strengths and flaws, understanding that these make you different and unique, as well as understanding that there are activities that we will not do well, that we do not have the skills for that and that we can learn them. But, do not focus only on the negative, do not downplay the positive.
- Get out of your comfort zone and do new things, without fear of failure, it is part of life.
Yo a los 20 años | Me at 20 years old
So several years went by, without results and without gaining weight, but without a doubt something changed, me. And no, not physically, I still have my clothes from when I was 12 years old, but I decided that I didn't want to feel insufficient anymore, it's normal to sometimes have slumps and feel less, but you can't let those comments absorb you, there is a lot of potential within each person and that's what really matters, only everyone knows how much they can bear, and what limits they can reach but we all know how much we are worth (and how much the people around us are worth) the comments will never stop coming but we can stop letting the comments hurt us so much, surround yourself with people who know how to highlight your virtues and NOT your flaws. I want to emphasize at this point that I was fortunate to have people by my side that during all this time knew how to highlight my virtues, but always the negative comments will affect more.
Apartado especial para quienes una persona especial pasa por una situación cómo está: Es muy importante apoyar a quienes queremos y nunca está de más recordarle que lo amas, a veces solemos olvidar que no estamos solos.
Special section for those who have a special person going through a situation like this: It is very important to support those we love and it never hurts to remind them that you love them, sometimes we tend to forget that we are not alone.
Espero les haya gustado y pueda servir de ayuda
El poder está en nosotros, solo debemos saber cómo usarlo.
Espero les haya gustado y pueda servir de ayuda
El poder está en nosotros, solo debemos saber cómo usarlo.
I hope you liked it and that it can be of help.
The power is in us, we just need to know how to use it.