FEELING GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF

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1. It is just as easy for boys as it is for girls to express and share how they feel about themselves and what happens to them.Research shows that mostly girls find it easier to understand and express their feelings. Boys can feel pressured to perform and appear strong instead of co-working and communicating with others.


2. Life is really all about having fun and taking advantage whenever you can, getting there first. Whoever tries to be there for others gets used and abused. Having fun and taking advantage of things is a healthy part of life but not when it hurts others or us in the long run. Being there for others can be one of the most rewarding experiences on earth provided we get our personal encouragement and healthy time out every so often.


3. A victim of bullying is a weak person who doesn’t have the guts to stand up for themselves. They deserve what they get. When we learn how to separate the person from what they do, we will know that every person deserves respect and kindness, it is not up to us to punish or put people in their place. Life will do that anyhow. Somebody’s weakness doesn’t give us the right to treat them disrespectfully, if anything they need our encouragement to handle the situation gracefully.


4. Being bullied or abused is not a problem, you just tell somebody. The shame that goes with being bullied or abused, the damage of self-esteem and self-love can make it extremely difficult to look for help and to tell somebody about it.


5. You can’t choose how you look at yourself or how you feel about yourself. Whatever thoughts you have, you’ve got to accept and live with them. Research shows that what you think often shapes how you feel, and how you feel affects how you think, but the one thing nobody can take from us is which thoughts we choose to dwell on. The more positively and self-affirming thoughts we choose to entertain, the more compassion and kindness we will feel for ourselves, the more we free ourselves from the negative and self-destructive patterns of our mind.