Posts tagged with 'self-esteem'
Handouts & questionnaires for compassion & criticism (third post)
29th June 2009
This is the third of three posts giving handouts & questionnaires on compassion & criticism. There are a dozen MP3 recordings listed below. It would be possible to use these tracks as a "compassionate mind training" sequence, although I've listed them more to illustrate the kind of approach that it's …
Handouts & questionnaires for compassion & criticism (second post)
22nd June 2009
This the second of three posts on handouts & questionnaires for Compassion & criticism. It contains a series of loosely linked downloads about compassion, self-criticism, hostility, self-esteem and related subjects. To see the earlier post on this subject click on Compassion & criticism (first post). Compassionate/self-image goals scale and background …
Holiday, friendship and “meditation retreat” (third post)
21st March 2009
This is the third Moroccan blog post. It introduces some ideas about mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), self-criticism and problem solving. So yesterday we drove East and South from Marrakech across the Atlas - the road, our driver said, winding up to over 6,500 feet (about 2,000 meters) before heading back …
Recent research: egosystem & ecosystem
13th November 2008
In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. Beatles This is essentially the Beatles closing statement. It is the last lyric on the last album they recorded. (Let It Be was the last album they released, but it was recorded earlier). Every now and …
Nourishing self-esteem – second post
31st August 2008
In yesterday's post I discussed interesting research (Marigold, Holmes, & Ross, 2007) on boosting self-esteem by helping people allow appreciation in rather than dismissing it. In these studies, the typical experimental instructions were: "Think of a time when your partner told you how much he/she liked something about you. For …
Nourishing self-esteem – first post
30th August 2008
People who are low in self-esteem are often self-defeatingly, self-protective. They would like other people to accept and respect them for the good qualities they have. However they fear that, if they are seen to have certain strengths, they will at some stage fail to live up to other's expectations …
Relationships, self-esteem and health - second posting
17th August 2008
Looking at research like the studies by Stinson on self-esteem, relationships and illness (Stinson, Logel et al. 2008), it's easy to start to see self-esteem as a "the-more-the-better" quality. It is true that higher self-esteem is robustly associated with higher levels of happiness, increased initiative and less tendency to depression …
Relationships, self-esteem and health - first posting
16th August 2008
Poor relationships damage our health. Recent research powerfully demonstrates this point (Stinson, Logel et al. 2008). In these studies, relationships were assessed in three different ways - relationship quality (closeness, trust, satisfaction), number of friends, and relationship stress. Sheldon Cohen (Cohen 2004) has argued that these three aspects of relationships …