Try a little tenderness
As we have seen, people who suffer from low self-esteem often develop a highly critical inner voice that leaves them prone to feelings of inadequacy and shame. One of the best antidotes to these problems has turned out to be deliberately cultivating specifically compassion-based cognitions that can be highly effective in counteracting your hostile internal commentary.
Dr Paul Gilbert has found that by deliberately concentrating on generating feelings of compassion towards oneself and other people impressive changes can be achieved. In a study conducted in a high-security psychiatric hospital, a group of patients reported significant improvements in their self-esteem and the lifting of depressive symptoms after just a few ...
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