How to Use Daily Self-Affirmations if You Have High or Low Self-Esteem
You might be doing self-affirmation wrong.
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” — Maxwell Maltz
You wake up, go to the bathroom, and look at the note on the mirror.
“I am a happy person. I am amazing. I am friendly, smart, and everyone likes me.”
You get ready, grab your coffee, and go to work. You have an absolutely terrible day.
You go home and rip the note down from the mirror, wondering why you were ever so stupid to listen to that self-help guru that told you to put it there in the first place.
Turns out, they might have been giving good advice — just not to you.
Self-affirmation can be a powerful tool, but studies show it needs to be done in different ways with different people.
High vs low self-esteem
A 2009 study showed a stark contrast in how self-affirmation affected people with low self-esteem vs individuals with a high amount of it.
The study showed that daily self-affirmation — advice we often see from self-help gurus — does work. But only for…
