Self esteem and exercise

There is a strong connection between being active and feeling good. Just try to go to the gym and do a workout and NOT feel good afterwards. Unless you overtrain or give yourself an injury it’s pretty hard not to feel great from exercise. One of the reasons you may not exercising is that you don’t remember that good feeling, or you feel too tired now to get up and take part in the exercise.

However, how would you feel if you knew that being physically fit and healthy actually leads to improvements in all areas of your life? Think about how much more confident you feel when you’re healthy.

What about the fact that you are less snappy at other people because you’re in a better mood?

What about the fact that you have a lot more tolerance, can think clearer and have more energy to do all the things you’ve been putting off?

Being healthy is the single best thing you can do to improve your overall lifestyle – next best thing is looking after your mental health.

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Self esteem and relationships

We often measure ourselves by how people are treating us. We often feel happy when our family, work colleagues partner or friends are nice to us and can feel devastated when we are treated poorly. To have a healthy and strong self esteem it’s necessary to have strong resilience. This means that when things happen you are entitled to have a reaction to them (e.g. to feel upset) but it’s important to deal with the issue at hard and not take the next step and assume you are a bad person as a result of someone else’s behaviour.

The next time someone upsets you, put it in perspective. Separate yourself from the other person and deal with what just happened – as soon as possible – so you don’t internailise it and assume you must have done something to create their behaviour. Visit www.happylife.net.au for more insights into happiness.