Why Are Self-Esteem and Body Image Important?

Self-esteem is all about how much people value themselves, their pride in themselves, and how worthwhile they feel.  Self-esteem is important because feeling good about yourself can affect how you act.  A person with high self-esteem will make friends easily, control their behavior, and enjoy life more.

Body image is how someone feels about his or his own physical appearance.  

Body image can be closely linked to self-esteem for many people, especially those in their early teens.  That's because as kids develop into teens, they care more about how others see them.

WAYS TO BUILD YOUR SELF-IMAGE

Imagine what your life would be like if you were happy, successful, and fulfilled.  How would you feel?  What would your life look like?  What would you do?  Well, this type of life is possible for you, me, and everyone else who is blessed to live in a country where we can all pursue our dreams.

The only way you can achieve this unique combination of life's greatest joys is to focus on doing the things that will build your self-image.  If you don't positively see yourself, it will be virtually impossible to be happy, successful, or fulfilled, let alone enjoy the combination of all three.

Here are 5 ways you can build your self-image:

1. Count Your Blessings

If you focus on all the things you are truly blessed to have, rather than your problems and what you don't have, you will be happier and have a better outlook on your life.  This change in attitude will improve everything: your career, your relationships, and your self-image.  Make a list of all the things you are truly blessed to have and review it daily.

2. Be a Person of Integrity

If you do things that you know you shouldn't do, such as misleading, deceiving, or lying outright to people, there is no way you can feel good about yourself.  Whether it's our culture or God's moral imprint in our DNA, deep down inside, we all know what's right and wrong.  Don't ever allow yourself to be tempted to do what you know is wrong.  There is no benefit you can gain to offset the damage your decision will make to your self-image.

3. Make Good Decisions

"Success comes from a series of good decisions made over time, while failure comes from making a series of poor decisions over time." When we make bad decisions, not only do we suffer the consequences, but also our bad decisions damage our self-image.

4. Commit to Personal Growth

Start listening and reading self-improvement material to improve your self-image.  The more I learned about the things I could do to grow and develop myself as a person, the more inspired and motivated I became.  As I began to implement all the lessons I learned, I started to feel better about my self-image and the person I was becoming in the process.  Let me encourage you to fill your mind with information that can help you grow and become the best person you can be.

5. Recognize and Reward Yourself

One of the things you should do is recognize yourself for ALL your accomplishments, even the smallest of things.  Yes, it always feels good when people are complimentary of the things we do, but in most cases, people don't even know all the little things we do.  Stop looking for praise and words of encouragement from others and start giving them to yourself.

Why is Being Beautiful So Important?

We always, and everywhere, try to be beautiful, and in the process, a mirror becomes more personal to us than we are to ourselves.  Becoming beautiful and looking good is so rapid that what we become is just an outward us.  Is being beautiful so important?  Even now, we see the most popular people not so good-looking, and the most beautiful people next door not so popular.  

Does beauty really matter?  Probably it does, particularly for people who have a dying preoccupation for the body and would go to any length to safeguard it.  No wonder then, despite nearly thirty years of feminism, the beauty industry is a multi-billion dollar a year business.  Those who make money have a mind, and those who spend have forgotten they have it.

Goodness from Within Reflections on Our Expressions:-

At least do we realize that we would look the way we are, and an expression on our face is actually the reflection of what we are from within?  We can camouflage the exterior, but what can we do about the interior.  Our goodness or badness, generosity or animosity, or love or hatred all show through our bodies.  If we are good from within, our face reflects a mesmerizing state of goodness;  If we are not, we clearly show it through our expressions.

Ageless Beauty Comes from Within:-

 It is this body we always give a helping, and not to what lies beneath it.  This way, we only answer some deep-rooted anxieties in our psychology and do not provide a solution to them.  We keep on spinning answers for these anxieties until we run out of them as we advance in age.  Try as you might; you cannot camouflage old age.  We fail to achieve ageless beauty.  The reason is that we failed to recognize it when we were young.  Ageless beauty, says Ayurveda, comes from within.

 INNER BEAUTY Vs. OUTER BEAUTY:-

There are two types of beauty.  There is inner beauty, and there is outer beauty. People see these two types of beauty as very different from one another.

A person that has outer beauty is typically someone that is considered physically attractive.  They are usually considered to be skinny or of average weight.  Very rarely is a person that is overweight considered to be outwardly beautiful.  If it is a woman, her hair and makeup should be flawless.  It doesn't matter whether her hair is short or long, blond or brunette, but her hair is not out of place.  Her makeup is perfect.  Eye shadow, blush, mascara, all exactly the shade it should be and nothing out of place.  Her wardrobe could come from the most highly paid designers or the resale shops, and it wouldn't matter.  The way she wears those clothes is beautiful.  She is always dressed very neatly.  There is not a wrinkle on her, nor is there a hint of wear on her clothing.  If she's dressed in black, nothing on her has faded to gray.

Beauty is a wonderful thing.  Inner and outer beauty is something that people should work to achieve.  Too much of any one thing is never good, but some of each is a definite positive.  Not only will you portray a positive and attractive appearance to others, but others will also appreciate you for all the good you do for those in need.

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