Part Five: Detachment

7 ways of overcoming negative self-image: Part 5

Congratulations for completing the exercises since week one.

You will feel so refreshed and feeling some degree of change in yourself soon.

This week's concept is about detachment. Specifically in a way that is healthy for you.

Detach what people think of you, their thoughts from your emotional feelings, self-esteem and ego.

This will allow you to take criticism better without ego getting involved. The outer world's opinions should not affect your inner world. How you view yourself.

When I speak of detachment, this is not detaching and disconnecting with people. It is the opposite in fact. It is ensuring you're able to communicate with people compassionately without peoples' opinions damaging your view of yourself.

Expectations and detachment

Detach yourself from others by not maintaining expectations. This helps you to detach from other people’s opinions or perception of you. When you let go of expectations, it means all the emotions and energy you placed in people are no longer a distraction from your relationship with yourself. Self-image is a relationship with you.

You can disconnect your fear of people's opinions. People means everyone.

Detachment is a skill in itself so it takes time. I found there was no specific activity you can do to help you with this. However; I read books, listen to audios and work on myself. There was one book that helped me understand the human mind. Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill. I suggest you read it. It has nothing to do with money. You'd be quite surprised.

If you are not a reader, then listen to the audio.

Is detachment positive though?

Detachment is positive because it means you’re open enough to listen to criticisms and take relevant parts of the criticism to make positive change in yourself without allowing yourself to impact your self image.

In a nutshell, detachment is healthy.

How wonderful would you feel if you could listen to feedback without having an emotional reaction to it?

When anybody places a positive opinion on how you do something or in fact how you look. You say thank you without feeling a need for that thank you to boost your self image. You listen or see negative feedback and then learn from it. This enhances your self image and self growth.

It is the same for praise and compliments. When you detach from this, it means you are not relying on praise to give you a positive self image. Ego and self-esteem have no place within praises or criticisms.

Detachment frees you from chaining yourself to peoples' thoughts and feelings about you. Detachment allows you to step away from negative self talk.

Detachment is a skill you learn by doing it and speaking aloud.

Find an environment that practices detachment. This may be amongst peers, family members or online groups.

Being part of a network of people who strive in personal development is what has helped me continuously work on detachment and my self image.

Go seek it.

To change how you feel about oneself is changing your environment. Changing what you listen to, watch and who you interact with.

Open up to personal self development and become free of attachment towards others.

I know you can do it because you are doing it right now.

You are the highest form of creation, you have the greatest muscle and invisible organs in the world. Your brain, your mind and your soul.

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