Monthly Archives: August 2009

How To Be Confident

Con­fi­dence is a funny thing. It comes in two flavours. How con­fi­dent other peo­ple believe you are, & how con­fi­dent you feel inter­nally. The two are related, but not nec­es­sar­ily linked. E.g., it's quite com­mon that other peo­ple see us as more con­fi­dent than we may actu­ally feel. So how do you go about becom­ing more …

August 25, 2009 – 05:01 | By Si | Posted in healing, self-improvement | View Comments

More On The Mirror Exercise

I talked about the mir­ror exer­cise a while back. I've used this quite a lot, & dis­cov­ered a few extra tricks to really amp it up, which I thought I'd share. I Love You Pay­ing your­self com­pli­ments is a good way to start, par­tic­u­larly if you're feel­ing down on your­self, but the sin­gle most pow­er­ful thing …

August 23, 2009 – 05:49 | By Si | Posted in healing | View Comments

How To Stop Feeling Bad

Why do we feel bad? It's a good ques­tion. An easy answer would be "because bad stuff hap­pens to us", but what for one per­son would be a dis­as­ter, some­one else might barely notice. So what's actu­ally going on here? In a nut­shell? We beat our­selves up. That lit­tle voice in our heads giv­ing us shit. Yep, …

August 18, 2009 – 03:10 | By Si | Posted in healing, life, self-improvement | View Comments