Empower your 6 self-images for unshakeable confidence

You have six self-images you must be aware of and cultivate to boost your self-confidence. In this article, I am going to tell you what they are and what to do to improve them.

What is self-image? Self-image is the way you see yourself. It is not necessarily how you actually are, or how you appear to other people.

You actually have six different self-images that determine how you live. Understanding all these self-images and improving them to build a powerful and a confident one, will help you to transform as it will increase your self-love, raise your self-esteem, and boost your self-confidence. Eventually, it will help you to increase the quality of your life.

So, what are these self-images?

1: Your physical self-image

This image is governed by how you see your physical appearance. If you are complaining about your appearance and you wish that you were a bit taller or a bit shorter or you wish the colour of your skin or the size of your feet were different! I want you to know that good looking is structure and it is cultural, it is not universal. It fades when we get older.

Now, you have two ways to build a healthy and powerful physical self-image.

One way is to change the parts of your body that you can change, if it is possible to do so. For example, you might want to lose some weight, or change the shape of your nose, or dye your hair and so on.

The other way is to embrace, accept and love it because we still have certain parts of our physical bodies that we cannot change, like our heights, the colour of our eyes, or skins, etc. Maybe in the future the advancements in science and technology would enable changes to certain aspects of our bodies that are currently considered unchangeable as the field of genetic engineering and other related technologies continues to advance. So, you do not need to get rid of any part of yourself to love yourself.

I will share a secret in a future article on how to embrace and love every part of your body, fostering true gratitude and unconditional self-love.”

2: Your emotional self-image

You have a good self-image if you are happy, fulfilled and positive. If you are a kind of person who is carrying around with a bunch of emotional baggage, angry, jealous, resentful, worried, and fearful and so forth, you probably have a bad opinion of yourself.

“In this case, it’s crucial to take immediate action to free yourself from negative emotions by dissolving them. To achieve this, you need to master the skill of facilitating and dissolving emotional baggage, or consider hiring an expert for assistance. By ‘dissolving,’ I mean not just controlling or managing your emotions, but literally transforming them. Once you have accomplished this, you will find yourself emotionally grounded and stable.”

3. Your intellectual self-image

This one was probably formed during your childhood at home and at school. Your parents and your school teachers had a great impact on building your intellectual self-image, especially your school teachers.

You somehow knew whether your teacher liked you and thought of you as clever or not. This is your first seed you planted in your mind.

Unfortunately, most teachers are not aware that everyone is intelligent, clever and successful in the areas they value the most. They start to label a child based on their expectation of them, but they are not aware that the child is really smart in another area of his or her life, and then they label them as lazy, dyslexic or not being intelligent and so on.

After that their parents come online to cultivate this seed, and then all together, the teachers, the parents and the child create a limiting belief system that he or she cannot do well at school. This causes him or her to build a poor self-image for themselves.

So, if you have a poor intellectual self-image, I want you to smash it. Eliminate that limiting belief and replace it with an empowering one.

4. Your social self-image

This is what you imagine other people think of you. Some people suffer agonies thinking other people have a poor opinion of them.

First of all, you cannot read everybody’s mind just to know what they think of you. It is all in your head.

Second of all, most of the time, your expectations about how other people think of you is counter-intuitive.

Third of all, even if you have evidence that other people have a poor opinion of you, know that this is only their own opinion and it is based on their highest values no more and no less.

We judge and label people according to what we value. If you support my highest values, I label you as a good person but if you challenge them, I label you as a bad person.

For example, if I am a tidy, organised and clean person and you do not care that much about being that kind of person, I start to label you as a lazy, dirty and careless person. Just because you challenge my values, I have a bad opinion of you.

Likewise, if I value building rapport and having connection with people and you are a good communicator and a good listener, I love you; you are such an amazing person because you support my value. Understanding this will help you to free yourself from other people’s judgements and opinions of you.

5. Your ‘Real’ self-image

This self-image is your view of yourself right now. It has been influenced and formed by all the four self-images I mentioned earlier. It dictates your behaviour in every situation you face, determines how you relate to other people, influences your success in your chosen career and even the goals you set for yourself.

You can empower this self-image by transforming yourself. So, how can you do this? Well, you can do this by improving all the previous self-images that I explained before as well as another self-image that I am about to explain now.

6. Your ‘Ideal’ self-image

This is how you would like to be. I believe that you have a picture in your mind of the kind of person you would like to become.

I want you to take a time to sit in a comfortable position, then to close your eyes and imagine yourself in the body of your ideal self. The purpose of this exercise is to make the picture in your mind’s eye more vivid to have a crystal clear image about the kind of person you would like to be.

Back in time, when I first started my journey of personal growth, I built an image in my mind of the kind of person I wanted to be. I used to visualise myself acting, behaving, walking, talking and so on just like my ideal self, and I still do it every single day, I refine and improve it continually because growth is a long life journey and we learn new things every single day.

So, write down every detail about your ideal self- image, then set goals about every piece of that image and take action to make it real.

Stay tuned for my future articles, where I will unveil secrets on how to 10X the quality of yourself and your life through a concept called ‘Future Self’.

Building a powerful and confident self-image, will move every single cell in your body to awaken the power that you have within you to help you transform, to become the best version of yourself, to create your own reality, then from there everything else will change for you, I promise you.