Ways to Increase Self-Worth: The 2nd Essential Pillar of Self-Esteem

This is the second of 3 installments in the "Three Pillars of Self-Esteem" series.

The second pillar of robust self-esteem is to recover your natural capability to recognise and even depend on your inner voice of wisdom and guidance. Some of the people call it "trusting your gut" others reference it as "intuition" or your "sixth sense." I call it being "illuminated."

There's not a lot more exasperating than knowing you can do much better in life but just can't appear to get there. Within, you're feeling without an iota of doubt that you are much more capable in general and that your true "self" is locked up within howling to get out. Your heart tells you that you've got the strength and capabilities heretofore unproven, but that they reside in you unemployed. You can't seem to make contact with your "higher" self. You're feeling like you are in the dark, stifled by your frustration.

As revealed by top selling writer Robin Jayne Dedeker (self-esteem), "Every person among us has the gift of intuition within themselves." Unfortunately, as we progress thru life it's not uncommon for many of us to lose contact with our authentic and naturally intuitive selves. We start to listen more to what's going down on the outside and less to the critical messages being broadcast on the inside.

Those that reconnect with those inner messages and live the illuminated life experience a deep sense of "knowing" that leads to unshakable confidence and a straightforwardness of achievement.

As you start to listen for that little, quiet voice within, you start a voyage of inspiring awareness and self-realization and, with the correct disposition you can at last come to depend on this pillar of self-esteem. As that voice gets more intense with awareness, your natural intuition and self-trust grows revealing intuitive talents, mystic capabilities, and powers of extra-sensory perception.

By raising your self-acceptance and noticing the fantastic creature known as "you," your decisions become self-assured based not only on perceptive decision-making, logic, and sensible realism but also the creativeness that flows deep in your being.

Here are 1 or 2 simple tips to help you reconnect with your intuitive inner voice of guidance :

1. Listen less to what is going on "outside" and more to what is going on within. This includes TV, papers, gossip, and so on. Spend that time in a quiet spot, not especially thinking, but permit yourself the luxury of just "being" for a few moments. Shortly your inner voice will reemerge from the daily noise.

2. Ask yourself open-ended questions on the things in your life you are wrestling with. When you ask yourself questions, be quiet and essentially expect a solution. Simply, an open-ended is one that isn't answered with a "yes" or "no."

3. Permit yourself the liberty to "feel" the answers to the challenges you face. Your answers may not come as a "voice" but as a feeling or sense to take action.

When you realize the new probabilities and start to explore and experience the inner illuminated you, your life will immediately take on a different meaning and reflect that meaning to those around you. You'll learn to depend on your intuition to make better choices, that will cause more positive results in your life. You will almost explode with a new found appreciation for "you." For assistance in finding your "illuminated" self, go to self-confidence.