Bill Bartmann Discussion About Body Image and Self Esteem

Body Image and Women

Women are the most critical of their bodies, often having the opinion that they are too fat, short or ugly. While it is ideal to be height/weight proportionate, being different is not the end of the world. Proper nutrition and regular exercise are a good start toward improving one’s body image and physical health.

There’s good news, ladies; some men prefer more, some less; others just like it when you feel good about yourself, in spite of your “defects.” Focus on your good points and people will like you; their attention will not be drawn to your “defects.”

Men and their Body Image

Men tend to worry about being tall and strong. The worst “defect” for a man to have is to be short or small boned. Men believe the myth of the “tall, dark and handsome” or the “knight in shining armor.” A man’s self esteem will be very low if he thinks hi is too short or too thin. Like women, they can become obsessed with feelings of inferiority.

The good news for these men is that not all women like the big, buff, musclemen. Some women prefer a shorter man who has a strong personality or one who expresses self-confidence and of course, sensitivity.

Body Image with Adolescents

Teens and pre-teens worry a lot about their bodies, even as they are still developing. They are constantly comparing themselves to their TV, music, or magazine idols. Adolescents can fall into the “low-self-esteem” trap if they believe that they are not worthy if they don’t resemble these above-average looking stars.

In extreme cases, teens are in danger of developing behavior problems, eating disorders, social problems and severe depression. It is important that everyone have a good self-image; half of which is your body-image.

Improve Body Image

Think about the following points; improve where necessary:

Focus on the good points: long legs, nice hair, eye color, skin tone; come on! Everyone has something…find it and focus on it.
Start and maintain good eating habits; not necessarily a “crash diet” or some kind of strict menu plan; just common sense
Start an exercise program; simple cardio at first, and then begin adding other forms, like weight training or pilates exercise.
Walking is good – choose parking spots that are further away when you go places, take the stairs instead of the elevator or take regular walks outside.
Avoid unhealthy habits like smoking and drinking in excess
Use good posture; sit up straight, stand straight and appear happy and confident.

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Tips from Bill Bartmann on Mental Health and Success

Bill Bartmann has written many articles about self-esteem, self-image and self confidence. He has recommended that everyone exercise regularly and eat right to feel good and look good; therefore, improving self image.

Your mental health is also crucial; it is your guide to happiness and success. Mental health is another very important factor in building your self esteem and increasing your self confidence. Developing your personal mental health and inner strength should be a high priority.

Like your body, your brain also needs to be fed. Your personal mental health comes from good thoughts and intentions; evil thoughts and intentions lead to sicknesses of the mind. One may think they have gained satisfaction from doing something mean to “get even” with someone who has done them wrong, but they are ultimately hurting themselves even more. True happiness is only possible if you choose to be a good person, helping others, forgiving others and ignoring those who have bad intentions.

Negative thoughts are poison to the mind and brain. When you poison your mind and brain with negative thoughts of your self or bad intentions toward others, your physical health will also suffer. Taking care of your mental and physical health is important to your success.

Tips for Improving and Maintaining Your Mental Health

Laughter is the best medicine – smile and laugh more; act happy and others around you will be happy
Learn from failure – don’t be so hard on yourself
Take time for yourself – succeeding takes hard work, but you also need to do things you like to do; too much work and no play is not good for mental health
Walking outside is not only good exercise, it also feeds your brain with fresh air while allowing your mind to relax and enjoy a nice day
Dream about possibilities – what will your life look like when you have reached your goals?
Believe in yourself – think of your past accomplishments and how they have brought you closer to your goals
Welcome challenges – Face your challenges head-on; don’t waste time fretting or blaming others for things that go wrong; focus on how to overcome and conquer
Surround yourself by other people who are happy and confident; avoid hanging out with negative people
Try to see the good in everything – if there is no good, walk away

We are meant to be healthy and negative thinking and evil intentions will only make us suffer. Being positive and caring for others will bring you happiness; happiness will lead to success. Competition in the business world can be healthy and stimulating, but do not compete with the intention to crush your opponent. It is better to encourage others and help them to succeed. This will definitely increase your self-confidence and improve your self-image.

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The Quality of Your Life Depends on?Your Self Image!

The term “poor self-image” refers to a generally negative feeling about one’s self. Authorities on the subject have not developed a precise definition for it nor have they pinpointed an exact cause.

Accordingly, there is no agreed upon way to handle it. Gary Craig, founder of EFT, defines poor self image, based on EFT’s precise approach and pinpoints an exact cause as:

“The cause of a poor self image is an accumulation of negative emotions about one’s self.”

Therefore if we eliminate the negative emotions then we eliminate the cause. And without the cause the poor self image fades away.

Poor self image may be the world’s number one ailment. It is so prevalent that almost everyone carries around some degree of it. Our self image is often equated with our self confidence. We tend to “radiate” it through our mannerisms, posture, words and gestures and others “pick it up” whether we want them to or not.

Accordingly, it has a major effect on our business, social and personal performance. Sometimes jobs, promotions and sales are won or lost depending on how we radiate our inner thoughts to others.

Friendships and romantic encounters can flourish or die depending on how we project our feelings about ourselves. The lower our self image, the easier it is to get upset and the more intense become our anger, guilt, jealousy and other emotional responses.

Poor self image can develop at a very early age. For example, a baby can hear the angry loud voices of parent’s quarrelling and sense the vibrations of their emotions. Anger associated with loud sound is indelibly written on the child’s mind and becomes a filter through which all his future decisions may be sieved. Our progress can be sabotaged with all of the negative emotions that we carry around inside.

As the child grows his interaction with other children, their attitudes and behaviour may strengthen his earlier filters or may create even more filters in his mind which can lead to a poor self image. School life and later in the workforce many more such filters may be created which will reflect in his attitude with regard to studies or life in general. His studies may suffer or he may not be as effective in his work. A negative attitude may even affect his health.

When our self image is low we tend to stay stuck in one place. We don’t venture into that new business or get out of that abusive relationship or try something new. Some parts of our lives can be very dull and depressing. In short, our self image is the centrepiece of our emotional strength. The quality of our lives often depends on it.

Go to the self help section of any major bookstore and there you will find countless books with solutions to the self image problem. In general, they emphasize positive attitudes and give exercises for looking at the brighter side of life. They encourage focusing on your strengths rather than your weaknesses and some emphasize visualization and affirmations to help you achieve these things.

Many of these approaches do help people improve their self images and they should all be applauded. The results are a bit spotty, however. An improvement here. A new attitude there. Rarely does anyone achieve an across the board, dramatically improved self image with these tools. These approaches, however, only try to overwhelm people with mega doses of positivism.

This is a laudable effort, of course, but one’s established self doubts and negative feelings can be rather stubborn. If your journey through life is like a bus ride, then these self doubts and negative feelings are passengers on your bus. You are at the wheel and they are your “back seat drivers” who think they own the front seats. Conventional methods won’t move them much.

The reason so many of these techniques fall short is that they do very little to neutralize all the self doubt and negative feelings that make up the poor self image. Imagine a bowl of milk and a bowl of poison. If you take a drop of poison and mix it in the bowl of milk, the whole bowl of milk will become poisonous. But if you take a drop of milk and add it to the bowl of poison it will not change a thing. No matter how much milk you pour into the bowl of poison. The inherent nature of the poison will corrupt the purity of any and all positive feedback we give ourselves in any form.

This is exactly what happens when little is done to neutralize the poison of self doubt and negative feelings within. Hence it is very important to understand and neutralize negative emotions before implanting any positive ones. EFT can help you achieve this.

EFT offers a refreshing new approach to this problem where dramatic, across the board changes do occur. People have been totally transformed by these techniques. Their mannerisms, posture, words and gestures all change to reflect a more positive, self assured person. Their friends and co-workers comment on the “new” person that has evolved before their eyes.

Rather than try to install new attitudes and perspectives, as conventional methods tend to do, EFT effectively liberates one from their self doubts and negative feelings. They loosen those unwanted passengers from their front seat positions and kick them off the bus. Once off the bus, they no longer contribute to a poor self image.

The self doubts and negative feelings that make up a poor self image are forms of “negative emotions” which, of course, are what EFT was designed to handle.

EFT was developed on a discovery statement which states: “The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.”

With this in mind the process to improve your self image is simple. Just apply the technique on every negative emotion you have. One by one they leave and, as they do, the balance between your positive and negative emotions shifts inevitably toward the positive. A refreshing and confident new self image bubbles up to the surface. The baggage has been thrown off your bus.

Here’s a metaphor that will further help your understanding of this concept. Consider each of your negative emotions or specific events as a tree in a negative self image forest. They might be reflective of things from your past like rejections, abuse, failures, fears, guilt, etc. There may be hundreds of them and they may be so thick as to resemble a jungle.

Let’s assume, though, that there are 100 diseased trees in your self image forest. If you cut one of them down (by neutralizing it with EFT) you still have 99 left. While you will get some noticeable, and much appreciated, emotional relief from removing that one tree, you still haven’t made much of a dent in the self image forest.

But what would happen if you methodically cut down one tree per day? Gradually, the forest would thin out. You would have more room to move within it and it would be a freer place in which to reside. Eventually…with persistent use of EFT…all the trees disappear and in their place is a much more emotionally free you. The world looks different when the forest (or jungle) is gone and a new self image emerges.

Fortunately, you will not have to cut down all 100 trees to get your result. That’s because using EFT to neutralize a few negative emotions of a given type will tend to generalize over the remaining negative emotions of that same type.

For example, assume that in your forest you have a clump of 10 trees known as “abusive experiences.” Take the biggest (most intense) trees in that clump first and cut them down with EFT. Once you have done 3 or 4 of them, you will usually find that the remaining of 6 or 7 fall on their own. Balancing the energy system for some trees then spreads to other trees of the same type.

You can then repeat this generalization concept with other clumps that might be called “failures” or “rejections.” In this way, a 100 tree forest might be cleared by cutting down approximately 30 trees.

With EFT, shifts in self image come much faster and much more powerfully than with conventional methods.

But the shifts don’t happen as rapidly as with phobias and distressing memories. EFT frequently handles those in moments whereas complete self image changes often take weeks. This is because the shifts in self image are the result of the time consuming elimination of numerous negative emotions (trees)…one at a time.
As mentioned above that complete self image changes take weeks that does not mean nothing is happening in the meantime. On the contrary, with each tree that is removed from the forest a shift in one’s self image takes place. However, the immediate emotional freedom that comes from removal of that one tree does not usually make a noticeable change in the much larger self image problem. But the cumulative change that comes from removing several trees is noticeable if you become an “observer” of what is happening.

The changes that happen within you are gradual, subtle and powerful. They feel so natural that you don’t even realize that the shift is taking place. Eventually, your friends will comment on your changes and then you will have incontrovertible proof. But, until then, you need to be an “observer” and tune yourself into what is going on.

Notice for example, how you handled a recent rejection more matter-of-factly than before. Observe how you speak up more often and how you are taking better care of yourself. Listen to how the tones of your own conversations are shifting toward the positive.

Watch the reaction of others toward you as you radiate a more assured self image. Being an “observer” is important because, without it, you might conclude that nothing is happening and give up on the process.

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Reconstruction Mammoplasty Can Dramatically Improve Self-Image, Self-Confidence And Quality Of Life

Augmentation mammoplasty, more commonly referred to as breast augmentation is a cosmetic surgery procedure that is used to enhance the shape and size of a woman’s breasts for many different reasons. The reasons include but are not limited to: To balance a difference in size between two breasts; to enhance the body contour of a woman who feels her breast size is too small; to correct breast volume after a woman loses volume due to pregnancy; as a reconstructive procedure following any other breast surgery. By placing an implant behind each breast, plastic surgeons are capable of increasing the bust-line of a woman by one or more bra cup sizes.

A woman’s breasts face many factors that take their toll after years and years. These factors include nursing and pregnancy and the force of gravity. When the skin loses its elasticity, the breasts will usually lose some of their shape and firmness and begin to sag. A cosmetic surgery procedure known as a breast lift, or mastopexy, is designed to fight against those affects of aging. The cosmetic surgery procedure will raise and reshape sagging breasts at least for a time.

A breast lift surgery can also reduce the size of a woman’s areola which is the darker skin that is around the nipple. In the case that your breasts have lost volume or are small, breast implants inserted during the procedure can greatly increase their size and their firmness.

The biggest reason that a woman seeks a breast lift is because nursing and pregnancy have left them with less volume and stretched skin in their breasts. If a woman is planning on having children, or more children, she should postpone the idea of having a breast lift until after she is done having children. There are no special risks that would affect a future pregnancy (mastopexy generally does not interfere with breast-feeding), pregnancy is more than likely going to stretch your breasts again and remove the results of the cosmetic surgery procedure.

A woman may experience a variety of medical problems if she has large breasts. The large amount of weight can cause back and neck pain, and sometimes skeletal deformities, breathing problems, and skin irritation.

Breast reduction, also known as reduction mammoplasty, is designed specifically for these women. The surgery will remove fat, skin from the breasts, and glandular tissues. This makes them smaller, lighter, and firmer. It also capable of reducing the size of the areola. The goal or the surgery is to give the woman better-shaped and smaller breasts which they feel are more in proportion with the rest of their body.

The reconstruction of a woman’s breast is known as breast reconstruction. The surgery is an emotionally and physically rewarding plastic surgery procedure for a woman who, through caner or other condition, lost her breast or breasts.

Your self-image, self-confidence, and quality of life can all be greatly improved with the creation of a new breast. Even though reconstruction mammoplasty is capable of providing you with a relatively natural-looking breast, it will never feel or look exactly the same as it had before the breast was removed.

Breast reconstruction is a plastic surgery procedure that is highly individualized. The surgery should be performed for you and not to fulfill someone else’s desires or to try fitting any sort of an ideal image.

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Weight Loss and Improved self Image Through Hypnosis Cds

When people are overweight for a long time, they oftentimes have difficulty accepting themselves as beautiful. In a way, you are hypnotized to believe something that is not true. With hypnosis cds, you can begin to see the beautiful you and accept yourself in order to make the desired changes.  You are more than your weight. Beauty comes in many ways from a beautiful complexion or a beautiful smile. There is also an inner beauty that goes beyond physical appearances.

Why is it hard for people to realize that they are beautiful? Throughout our lives, we develop our self image from words that we hear from others. If others tell you that you are fat, then fat is how you see yourself. This has tragic results because it puts barriers in the way of positive change.

People often say that heavy people are lazy. This is far from the truth. When Albert Ellis did his study and testing with many people who were overweight, none of them were abnormal psychologically. They were no lazier than people in the in the so-called normal group. Because these negative beliefs and images are present, they mold your reality. With hypnosis cds, new images and beliefs are presented to help you to see yourself in a more positive realistic way. Your mind has unlimited potential to change. Repetition of the hypnosis cd will create the beliefs that work with you and are goal-promoting.

When you begin to accept and love yourself, anything is possible. You feel that you are worth the effort. You smile more and people reinforce this new image because they see the positive changes in the way you appear. You appear relaxed and confident. Your inner beauty shines forth and the weight drops away.

The hypnosis provides a positive voice expressing belief in you and your potential to change. You see yourself as a person who is growing and changing. This new image of yourself supplants the old images of hopelessness and you are encouraged to forge ahead.

Your subconscious mind gives you success. You program positive change into your subconscious mind and change becomes manifest in your body. Truly, with hypnosis, your mind builds a thinner you. You receive reinforcing complements from others and change is in motion. Loving and accepting yourself is the only foundation upon which positive change can be built. When you teach a child, unconditional love is more effective than put downs and guilt. The child responds and the lessons are easily absorbed. Your inner child responds in the same way. When positive and rational images are presented, your inner child responds more to the positive parenting. You blossom as a person and know that even though your conscious mind is limited; your subconscious mind is limitless.

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10 Steps to improve self image

10 steps to improve Self Image

People are always suffering from low self-esteem which affects their performance in all fields. They are the advertisers of their own fate. They try to blame for their failures on luck or fate but the fact is that they are responsible for their own failures.

Why do people have low self-esteem? It may be due to any of the following:

1) Low income

2) Not so good looking

3) Habit of concentrating on bad side of the things

4) Wrong comparisons

5) Always worrying about something or the other.

What to do about it? There are no readymade solutions for the given problems but some methods to improve your self-esteem are as below:

1)      Make a list of all the wealth available with you. Both tangible and intangible. Intangible includes the overall important fact that you are healthy and strong.

2)      Always be well groomed for all occasions. Its important that you consider yourself beautiful first.

3)      Always read motivating books and see motivating films. Avoid negative thinking and talking people.

4)      Improve your performance by selecting implementation and smaller tasks first.It greatly improves your self esteem that you are able to complete a decided task on time or before time.

5)      Always have a smile on face. Many times even having a fake smile on face improves your mood.

6)      Help others in their work without expecting anything in return.Its really helps to improve your self esteem when you know that you are able to help others, which means that you have something more than others.

7)      Have a ready reckoner of good habits that you have and that you want to possess. Constant memorization of this may lead to having these habits engraved in your mind and character.

8)      Avoid negative people, pornography and other low self esteem behaviors

9)      Learn from others mistake. No need to reinvent the wheel. Learn from the failures of others.

10)  Always talk with an eye contact .It makes you look very confident.

These are some of the ways to improve your self-esteem. So what are you waiting for? Practice them!

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