IT's OK Not To Feel GOOD ENOUGH
Are you stuck looking at yourself across the mirror? Not literally though but from a SELF-JUDGMENT context? But not to dampen us, psychologists advise that if you have DOUBTS on yourself, you're NOT alone. In fact, a plurality of us do get into these SELF-DOUBTS from time to time. Experts tag those moments of our SELF-DOUBTS as "SELF-EVALUATIVE THOUGHTS" that rattle through our brain. Whether it concerns our performance at work, some boiling turmoil' in our relationship with our spouse/partner or that unexpressed nervousness if we are capable to climb a 'steep' challenge we doubt but again, as psychologists say, IT's OK Not To Feel GOOD ENOUGH
All these are NOT our faults according to experts because long way back, humans had to compete with others for STATUS. Comparing ourselves to others was then once a SURVIVAL SKILL. And during those tribal ages, being 'EXILED' from one's tribe was a matter of LIFE and DEATH. That explains why we humans ended up with that FEAR of REJECTION, until todayHumans are too hanged-up with so many WANTS. WANT to get good grades. WANT to have more monies. WANT to be attractive. WANT to be in the center of everything. Just one too many WANTS
At times, we try to do everything we can to PROVE to ourselves and others that we are the VERY THINGS we want to see ourselves: as GOOD, MONEYED, STRONG, ATTRACTIVE, INFLUENTIAL but again, things DON'T work that way. Bluntly, it is actually our relentless trying to FEEL GOOD about ourselves that causes much of our distress. Isn't that a gross irony? When it is ourselves causing it❓❓❓
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