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CURE FOR LOW SELF ESTEEM

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Disease Description

Self-esteem is a term in psychology to reflect a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of her or his own worth. A person with low self-esteem may show some of the following symptoms:

  1. Heavy self-criticism, tending to create a habitual state of dissatisfaction with oneself.
  1. Hypersensitivity to criticism, which makes oneself feel easily attacked and experience obstinate resentment against critics.
  1. Chronic indecision, not so much because of lack of information, but from an exaggerated fear of making a mistake.
  1. Excessive will to please: being unwilling to say "no", out of fear of displeasing the petitioner.
  1. Perfectionism, or self-demand to do everything attempted "perfectly" without a single mistake, which can lead to frustration when perfection is not achieved.
  1. Neurotic guilt: one is condemned for behaviors which not always are objectively bad, exaggerates the magnitude of mistakes or offenses and complains about them indefinitely, never reaching full forgiveness.
  1. Floating hostility, irritability out in the open, always on the verge of exploding even for unimportant things; an attitude characteristic of somebody who feels bad about everything, who is disappointed or unsatisfied with everything.
  1. Defensive tendencies, a general negative (one is pessimistic about everything: life, future, and, above all, oneself) and a general lack of will to enjoy life.

As well, individuals with low self-esteem may have feelings of insignificance.

STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED

  1. PADMA ASANA
  1. JAALANDHARA BANDHA
  1. VISUALIZATION

1. PADMA ASANA

HATHA PRADEEPIKAA, UPADESHA 2, VERSES 31 -33

हठप्रदीपिका उपदेशं २ स्लोक ३१-३३

उत्तानौ चरणौ कृत्वा चोरू संस्थौ प्रयत्नतः ।
ऊरुमध्ये ततोत्तानौ पाणी कृत्वा तु तादृशौ ॥

दृष्टिं विन्यस्य नासाग्रे दन्तमूलं च जिह्वया ।
उत्तप्य चिबुकं वक्षस्युत्ताप्य भवनं शनैः ॥

इदं पद्मासनं प्रोक्तं सर्व व्याधि विनाशनम ।
दुर्लभं येन केनापि धीमता लभ्यते भुवि ॥

Uththanau Charanau Kruthvaa choru-Samsthau Prayathnathaha |
Oorumadhye Thathoththaanau Paanee Kruthvaa Thu thaadrushau ||2.31||

Drushtim vinyasya naasaagre Dantamoolam cha jihvayaa |
Uttapya chibukam vakshas Yuttaapya bhavanam shanaihi ||2.32||

Idham Padmaasanam Proktham Sarva-Vyaadhi-Vinaashanam |
Durlabham yena kenapi Dheemataa labhyate bhuvi ||2.33||

TRANSLATION One should with effort place the upward facing feet on the thighs, and place the upward-facing palms between the thighs.

Concentrating on the tip of the nose, keep the tongue pressed on the upper teeth, press the chin on your chest, push the air slowly upward, that is slowly pull the prana upward.

This asana called as Padma asana destroys all diseases, filled with power. Though difficult to be obtained by everyone, some intelligent people learn it.

Man demonstrating Padmasana sitting on a mat

TECHNIQUE

  1. Place the right foot on the left thigh
  1. Now place the left foot on the right thigh
  1. Place the hands between the thighs with the palms facing upwards
  1. Concentrating on the tip of the nose, keep the tongue pressed on the upper teeth
  1. Press the chin on your chest, push the air slowly upward
  1. Exhale slowly
  1. Do this 3 times and release the chin on your chest and tongue pressed on the upper teeth

IN PADMA ASANA, NEXT –

2. JAALANDHARA BANDHA

GHERANDA SAMHITA, UPADESHA 3, VERSE: 12

॥अथ जालन्धरबन्धकथनम् ॥

कण्ठसङ्कोचनं कृत्वा चिबुकं हृदये न्यसेत्।
जालन्धरे कृते बन्धे षोडशाधारबन्धनम् ॥

Kanta-sankochanam krutvaa Chibukam hrudaye nyaset |
Jaalandhare krute bandhe Shodasha-aadhaara-bandhanam ||3.12||

TRANSLATION Contracting the throat, place the chin on the chest. This is called Jaalandhara Bandha. By this bandha the sixteen adharas are closed.

TECHNIQUE

  1. Remain in same asana
  1. Inhale fully
  1. Place the chin on the chest and contract the throat
  1. Fix the Gaze at the tip of the nose
  1. Hold as long as possible judiciously
  1. Release the throat lock and exhale slowly, when you feel you can’t hold anymore
  1. Do this 21 times

IN PADMA ASANA, NEXT –

VISUALIZATION

TECHNIQUE

  1. Sit and visualize that you are at least 5 times more than what you are
  1. Now feel you are 20 feet tall
  1. Just visualize you are like a huge rock, you are a big being
  1. Visualize yourself as 20 feet tall, 50 feet wide, alive, living. Sit with this visualization

END OF KRIYA
Kriya Date
14-Dec-2011