How to strengthen your self-esteem

Tiziana Arnone
3 min readJun 5, 2019

One practical exercise and several dazzling effects

Photo by Dakota Corbin on Unsplash

Hands up who did not have been to the shrink or passed through a coach, a counselor, whoever you experimented, because you start suffering: panic attack, loosing life control; accomplishing a boss you hate, living the life of someone else, dreaming to retire yourself into the most ever isolated island all over the world.

Hands up who did not have been staring in front of a books shelf looking for inspiration or for a book calling you to pitch it up because that book will the one to save you...

Do you want to know one possible little solution to climb the mountain of your messed-up self?

Do you want to know a tiny trick to heal this discomfort, a part from trying to smile anytime and all the time?

If yes, please give a chance to yourself and keep reading...

The fundamental red flag defining something wrong is the feeling of not being enough, better said, we are scared. We have just to feel ourselves more powerful.

The solution I propose you is:

  1. affordable;
  2. easy to accomplish;
  3. flexible according to your time schedule.

You need to go to the cinema alone

In this time where you have to show how “social and friendly” you are, going alone to the cinema means how brave you are, because you choose to show up alone, in a setting when it is quite expected not to be like that.

Moreover, cinema means you are into a closed place and in dark: going there alone is like putting yourself under the spotlight. It worthy, because you and yourself are demonstrating the world you are not afraid to come as you are. You are not shamed at all.

Going alone to the cinema is one of the possible negation of human being natural attitude to sociability. Well, you need to experiment this supposing you are overcoming the fear of not being a social one.

Do not worry you are just giving yourself the chance to afford what is potential unaffordable.

Going alone to the cinema is a way to open up to others. Considering you are seated before your movie starts. You and other strangers are watching some trailers. It turns out quite nature to speak to your casual mate telling him or her how that movie will be amazing. You see you are able to get boundaries down? Isn't it worthy?

Going alone to the cinema is a way to observe yourself from outside. Sounds weird? Not at all. Because when you are there, seated, crunching your giant pop-corn box or not, believe me, you will get a different perception of yourself. And another brick in the wall of your self-esteem will be cemented.

Did I persuade you?

If yes, would you like to share which adjective will define your experience?

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Tiziana Arnone
Tiziana Arnone

Written by Tiziana Arnone

“I write what I couldn’t tell anyone”. writer. poet, observer. Relationship. Parenting. Personal Growth. Enchanted with life. Thin Skin/amazon.com

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