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Leon Is Awesome (and So Are You)
Author : Robes Marilou
Submitted : 2011-11-15 06:45:24 Word Count : 870 Popularity: 0
Tags: self-esteem, self-improvement, psychology, awesome
Leon is awesome but then again we are all awesome. Let's talk about what Self Esteem is. According to: Wikipedia: Self-esteem is a term in psychology to reflect a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs (for example, "I am competent", "I am worthy") and emotions such as triumph, despair, pride and shame[citation needed]: some would distinguish how 'the self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, the positive or negative evaluation of the self, is how we feel about it'.[1]
I teach a class on being more successful with women and finding the person of your dreams. One thing I notice is that a lot of my students do not realize that they are awesome. I always tell them Leon Is Awesome but then again so are you. I think a good reason so many people suffer from low self-esteem is because they have a model inside their head of what makes a person awesome and they are not living up to it. Let's talk about this for a second. Where do these models come from? They are not nature (or heredity) therefore they must come from conditioning. The question then becomes through what conditioning?
As we grow up we are subjected to tons and tons of stimulus and based on our interpretation of these stimulus we form beliefs. Beliefs then form our reality. If I have a belief that Leon is Awesome my brain will look for real world evidence to back this up. The same goes for any belief that you might have. Let's say you have a belief that girls are mean and a girl goes to tease you. You will interpret that teasing as real world evidence of the fact that girls are mean. I can't not stress enough that our brain will always look for real world evidence to back up the beliefs we have formed.
I cannot stress enough that beliefs form our reality. What you belief your mind finds real world evidence to back it up. The part of the mind responsible for this is known as the Reticular activating system. This is why I hold onto the belief that Leon Is Awesome because my brain will find real world evidence to back it up. A lot of people are not introspective. Introspection is a skill that most people do not have nor have ever learned. They do not know why they believe what they believe. If you ask them "why do you believe X", they won't be able to tell you why.
Since most people are not introspective they have not taken the time to examine their beliefs. This is very interesting because that means that most people are running around not knowing why they think what is what. They have no idea that they could be awesome. All they would have to do is do what I did & begin to form a new belief. A belief that is good like I am awesome. This day will be awesome. Etc.
What I propose to the reader is to take inventory of your beliefs. You can do this by one of two methods. Either number one free associate to your beliefs or number two ask yourself when you have an experience or interpretation why you believe that. We will go over both methods below
Free association: Say I believe and see what your mind spits back. Here are some of my beliefs I believe Leon is awesome. I believe that most people are friendly. I believe that when people go out they want to have a good time. I believe that when a girl goes out she is hoping to meet a great guy. I believe most people are bored. I believe that if you put me in any social setting generally the girl will be attracted to me (it doesn't mean she will act on it and sleep with me.) I could go on and on about the positive beliefs I have.
Before we get into the second method I want to take a moment to explain that there are two types of beliefs. The first are empowering beliefs and the second are what called limiting beliefs. A limiting belief is like putting on horse blinders because it limits our reality. An empowering belief is one like Leon is awesome, it expands our reality. We want to find our limiting beliefs, destroy them & nourish are empowering beliefs.
The second method of learning about what we believe is to look when an event happens how we feel about that and why we believe X. For example if I have a belief that I have bad luck (obviously a limiting belief) when let's say a computer crashes I could go "see there it is again my bad luck". Or I could say "computers crash, it happens does that mean I have bad luck. Why do I believe that I have bad luck" and work from there.
Since beliefs form our reality the faster we get rid of ones that limit us and the more we nourish ones that empower us the better our quality of life will be. What I suggest is the reader take about 15 minutes out of their life and free associate all their beliefs on to a piece of paper and then evaluate them. Ask why do I believe this? Is it based on fact or an assumption and did I draw a false conclusion? Could it be that I am mistaken in this belief? What if everyone in the world adopted this belief? Would I want to pass this belief down to my children? Find your limiting beliefs and begin to destroy them.
In closing Leon is definitely awesome but then again so are you. Let everyone know that you are awesome (not in an arrogant way but be confident). The quicker you can release your inner awesomeness the quicker the world can be lucky enough to experience it.
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