{"id":10033,"date":"2021-02-08T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T09:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more-selfesteem.com\/?page_id=10033"},"modified":"2022-03-05T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T08:56:07","slug":"30-self-esteem-affirmations-to-build-self-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more-selfesteem.com\/more-self-esteem\/building-self-esteem\/30-self-esteem-affirmations-to-build-self-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Self Esteem Affirmations for Powerful Self-Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Many self-help books claim affirmations work wonders. However, as I have found working with clients suffering from low self esteem, repeating affirmations is not enough on its own. Some research, such as that done by Wood, Perunovic and Lee <\/a>(2009), even shows that affirmations do not work for everybody, and if not used correctly, can even be harmful to your self esteem. So, can affirmations help you to build self esteem? And if so, how?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Affirmations can help you build self esteem. They help you replace negative thoughts with positive ones. Affirmations should include a helpful belief or positive intention which must be believable. If they are not believable the unconscious may resist them and they will not work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTimely affirmations have been shown to improve education, health, and relationship outcomes, with benefits that sometimes persist for months and years.\u201d<\/p>Cohen and Sherman (2014). Source: Annual Review of Psychology<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Some affirmations appear to be much more helpful than others, so I\u2019ve put together a list of what I believe are the very best 25<\/strong> self esteem affirmations out there. So if you\u2019re looking to boost your self esteem and confidence<\/a>, and are looking for a reliable and easy way to do this, then stay with me, I have the affirmations that will make all the difference in your life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an article by Critcher and Dunning (2014), affirmations can help you become less defensive and are helpful. This would seem to be particularly useful for those suffering from low self esteem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By using the power of positive affirmations and by repeating them, you can rewire your brain and alter how you feel and think<\/a> about any situation or challenge. It is always possible to see a positive side to almost any situation if you look for it.<\/strong> In some rather awful life situations, it may seem very difficult to find the optimistic view, but it is there if you can find it. Affirmations help you to look for the good and affirm it to yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Positive affirmations<\/a> help you to focus on the beneficial rather than on the negative aspects of any given situation. There is normally a mixture of both positive and negative in everything you do in life<\/a>. You decide, no one else, which aspect you choose to concentrate on. In this sense, affirmations can offer you hope in the challenging experiences you face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most powerful affirmations are already in our heads<\/strong>. Unfortunately, for most of us, these are negative affirmations. These are often the result of habit and the human tendency to think negatively. Up to a point, negative thoughts and negative affirmations can be helpful and even the fear they produce can be useful. Generally, though, this fear is only useful in dangerous or life-threatening situations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The power of the word can be seen in emotional and heartfelt writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nowadays, most of the challenges we face are not life-threatening, and we do not want to be paralyzed by fear when having to give a speech, for example. Neither do we want fear to take control when we have to confront someone over a delicate issue, or if we need to give a presentation, or ask for a pay rise. At these times we need helpful and beneficial messages in our brains, not negative self-talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We call the negative voice inside our heads self talk<\/a>. Self-talk is our own voice and our own thoughts echoing back at us. This self-talk is powerful only because we believe it.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you suffer from low self esteem<\/a> or lack of confidence I\u2019d bet that you often hear negative statements in your mind. Positive affirmations can counter these, and repeating them will make burn them into your mind, which can make you stronger in stressful situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the research done on affirmations and the effects they may have on self esteem, there is some disagreement as to how effective they are. One study that did not find affirmations to be helpful in building self esteem is this one by Flynn and Bordieri (2020)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCan Affirmations Really Help You Build Your Self Esteem?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n