Mobile phones and social networks are, today, one of the main creators of insecurities. Fear of feeling rejected, technological stress, phantom vibration syndrome, addiction, obsessive thoughts… However, used with common sense, the mobile can be of great help for your personal development.
Do you know these incredible apps to improve your self-esteem and learn to love yourself (finally)? Take note of these free applications and put their wise advice into practice.
Every day, an optimistic phrase
- When you get up, while you prepare breakfast, when you look in the mirror… Any moment is a good time to remind yourself how fantastic you are. Even if you consider it appropriate, you can fill your house with words full of energy and strength that will end up convincing you of your genius.
- If you need a little inspiration to find motivating phrases, you can install an app like ‘Self-esteem Phrases’ on your mobile. This offers you hundreds of ideas so that you always have some motivating words close to you.
Give yourself a challenge: be happy
- Change your way of seeing life: always from optimism! In your application search engine, you will find different apps that will help you face the day to day with a more positive outlook. It will help you face problems by being stronger and help you reach as high as you want to go.
- For example, ‘Be happy 30 days’ challenge’ by proposes tips to achieve happiness step by step in a month. If you do not test yourself, you will not know if you are capable of achieving it.
Do meditation with this app?
Meditation allows you to get to know yourself better, relax your mind, connect with your interior, be happier… And all of this helps to improve your self-esteem. For this reason, we recommend that you install an application on your mobile that helps you reflect.
‘10% Happier: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics’ offers you a complete meditation plan with advice and daily sessions in which you will have a guide. Finding a moment to meditate will help you be happier.
App to play sports and be happy
An essential requirement to have good self-esteem is to feel good about yourself. And for this, it is very important to maintain an active life. A sedentary lifestyle will make you bitter and make you have worse self-esteem. In addition, doing sports will allow you to stay in shape and shape your body. And you will look so much better!
For this reason, we suggest you use sports apps such as ‘7 minute Workouts’, which offer you daily routines that won’t take more than this time. Are you a fan of yoga? ‘Pocket Yoga’ offers you exercises to relax and keep fit at the same time.
Track your self esteem
Get to know yourself, connect with your ‘I’ from within, analyze how you feel… Sometimes we have a bad day and it gives us the feeling that all the previous days have also been very black. However, if you were able to look back, you would realize that there have also been many moments of clarity in your week.
For this reason, we suggest you keep a diary of your emotions on your mobile, which is always with you. ‘Diary – Mood Monitor’ is an app that allows you to record your mood every day and what you have been doing. In this way, at the end of the month you can see in the statistics how happy you have been. We suggest that every 30 days your happiness average goes up a little. You will get it?
Free your mind and love yourself
A little relaxation will not hurt in your life. If meditation is not enough for you, you can try painting. It is true that drawing on the mobile is not as satisfying as doing it on paper, but it can still help you free your mind.
There are a large number of coloring apps for Android and iOS, such as ‘Colorfy: Coloring Games for Adults’. This application offers you hundreds of designs and you can even create your own mandalas. You will relax and become an artist.
Why is it important to learn to love yourself?
- Do you walk slowly and with sure steps? Do you always have sloping shoulders and find it difficult to look people in the eye? Do you feel like everything is beyond you? Do you feel inferior to your partner and friends? Do you sometimes prefer to stay in bed than leave the house? If you answer yes to these questions, you have self-esteem problems.
- It is time to get down to work and end that low self-esteem. It will help you to be happier, develop personally, put fears aside, know how to manage changes, motivate you to achieve your goals… Learning to love yourself will help you feel better about yourself, but you will also have more physical well-being.
- Maintaining that attitude of low self-esteem will prevent you from fulfilling your dreams, it will make you blame yourself that you don’t really have, you will stop appreciating all the good things you do… You are fantastic! And you have to start convincing yourself how important it is to learn to love yourself a little more every day.
Other ways to improve self-esteem
If you have finally determined to improve your self-esteem, in addition to using the mobile apps that we have proposed before, you can carry out these simple gestures. They will help you realize, little by little, all the good things you have (which is a lot).
Learn to find the silver lining
Although it may seem otherwise, everything has a positive side if you know how to find it. It is about always staying with the good things that life gives you, even in the worst moments. At first, it will be a bit difficult for you, but being optimistic comes with practice. Why don’t you make a list of all the good things that have happened to you? Suddenly, you will begin to realize that there are more than you imagined.
Erase ‘I can’t’ from your vocabulary
If you stop saying it, you will eventually stop feeling it. Delete from your vocabulary and your thoughts phrases like ‘I can’t’ or ‘I’m not capable’ and little by little you will realize that you can handle everything and more. We recommend that you change those phrases to more positive thoughts.
Value yourself as you deserve
The first thing you have to do to improve your self-esteem is to realize how you are talking to yourself. Avoid language that is too harsh or offensive, because they are making you unable to value yourself as you deserve. Self -criticism is very necessary, as long as it is honest and constructive.
Spend more time in a natural environment
Surrounding ourselves with nature has been shown to increase our happiness and free us from anxiety. For this reason, walking through a green area will make you feel good about yourself and about your life.
Read a self-help book
Although there are many detractors of this type of literature, the truth is that a good self-help book can be very useful to learn to love yourself. It will give you good tips and tricks to start seeing life in another color.
Get more exercise!
Yoga, cycling, walks, running… Whatever you want! The most important thing is that you stay active, to feel good and, therefore, improve your self-esteem. Do you sign up for this challenge to learn to love yourself a little more?