Overcome Your Fear of Being Yourself

Overcome Your Fear of Being Yourself

Overcome Your Fear of Being Yourself

Many people find it difficult to be themselves when they are among other people. They are afraid that the others will not like them if they show their true personalities. This fear come from low self-esteem. By raising your self-esteem you will overcome your fear.

Showing others your true personality can be scary, but to help you to overcome this fear I can tell you something that is even more scary: if you never show others your true self you will never be loved for who you are. Don't you want to find true love? Don't you want a special someone who truly loves you? Don't you want your friends to love and care for you? NOT being yourself is actually MORE scary than being yourself. If you are yourself you risk that some people may not like you. (Nobody can be loved by everybody.) If you are not yourself you still risk that some people may not like you but you also risk that nobody will ever like you for who you are. You may find somebody that will love you even if you are acting like somebody that you are not, but that person will never ever truly love YOU. Is it worth being loved if it is not for who you really are? This is an important question because the first step towards overcoming your fear of being yourself is to decide that you WANT to overcome it.

Think of the act of being yourself as a skill. Any skill requires practise. The more your practise being yourself the better you will become. I have had clients who have hired me because they were fed up with being afraid of being themselves. As "challenges" between our coaching sessions we agreed that they were going to practise being themselves for set time periods each week. At first they were challenged to totally be themselves for 10 minutes per week. As they became better and better at doing this we raise this time to 10 minutes a day, half an hour a day, a couple of hours per day etc. In the end my clients overcame their fear and found it easy and comfortable to be themselves. Practise makes perfect, also when it comes to the skill of being yourself.

In order to overcome your fear of being yourself you can also try to simply raise your self-esteem in general rather than focusing on being yourself together with others in specific. There are many ways to go about this. Think about which method that suits you best. Do you prefer attending a self-esteem course, or do you prefer gathering your own exercises, inspiration and information from books, audios or other materials? Would you like to hire a personal self- esteem coach, or would you prefer group coaching? There are good alternatives for all personality types and budgets. Feel free to contact me if you want more information about what is available (coach@livmiyagawa.com, www.livmiyagawa.com). Raising your self-esteem can be easy and fun, and as a side effect you will start to feel much more comfortable with being yourself.

Liv Miyagawa - The Self-Esteem Coach

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