Why Self-Esteem matters

Whether it’s personal, professional or social, high self-esteem is extremely important in every aspect of life. Yet, many struggle to find it. Not only is your DNA and fingerprints different from everyone else; your mind, your looks, your way of thinking and your approach towards life is unique too! Many with low self-esteem are not expressive. In other words, they find their beliefs, opinions, and thoughts insignificant and try to conceal or suppress them. So here are a few simple ways to help you develop good self-esteem and experience a profound shift in your life.

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·         Know That you are Unique

Accept the fact that you are unique and special. Every human being is unique and born with some extraordinary traits; you just need to recognize those special gifts you are blessed with. However, to recognize these gifts, you will have to accept the fact that you are unique and cannot be compared with anyone else in the world, because there is no one else in the world who is quite like you.

Wherever you cast your glance, you will find diversity which attests to the fact that your belief, thinking process and perception towards life also differs. So, if nature has made you so unique and special, shouldn’t you accept this uniqueness and embrace it as much as you can? Love yourself, because you are unique. When you respect yourself and show the world your true self, the world will love you. And if they don’t, just let it be, because everyone has their own opinions and choices.

·         Consider yourself to be equally Significant

Many people fail to realize that their thoughts and opinions can bring about profound changes in a situation or sometimes even in someone’s life. Hence it is imperative to do away with toxic thoughts and beliefs and air your views and voice your opinion, which may not provide a solution all the time, but can sometimes create a difference in somebody’s life or circumstances. And the best way to enhance your self-esteem is to consider yourself to be equally significant as others and love yourself for the way you are.

·         Learn From Failures

Generally, people with low self-esteem beat themselves up when they make a mistake or an error of judgment. A feeling of “being good for nothing” takes over, because they either failed in something, lost a job or may have been dumped in a relationship. But it should be realized, that these events play a major role in life and occurs to bring out your hidden and true personality, to teach you lessons and to help you grow in life. So how you perceive these failures and you react to them, is what reveals your true character. Hence, if you are likely to encounter such agonies in life, always remind yourself that it’s just a tiny particle of the multiple components and layers that make up the real you.

A Positive outlook towards life and confidence in yourself and your abilities will help you sail through all the problems of life and you will learn how to soldier on and live every day with unfathomable vigor and vitality.

Advantages of High Self-Esteem

•  Life will be lighter, simpler and more meaningful
• You will experience a deeper sense of stability
• Less self-criticism
• More happening and nurturing relationships
• A happier person

Tips to raise self-esteem

•  Fire your internal critic
•  Adopt healthy habits to stay motivated
• Practice a little self-appreciation each day
• Pen down the three traits or things you like about yourself every evening
• Do what is right and not what is easy
• Allow yourself to make mistakes and skip the perfectionism
• Learn from failures, mistakes and setbacks and deal with such situations more positively
• Treat others with kindness
• Experiment with new stuff or things
• Don’t give into the comparison bully
• Spend quality time with people who help you grow and avoid the negative kind, who drain your energy
• Remind yourself why you are doing what you are doing

Transform the way you experience life

In this fast-paced era, humans are encircled with various responsibilities and juggles with numerous things at a time; be it career, relationships, studies, responsibilities towards family and kids and a lot more. All our plans to lead a peaceful life is falling flat owing to countless anxieties, tensions, and other negative emotions and it won’t be an exaggeration to say that our life is caught between the devil and deep blue sea.

In the rush to get it all done, people forget to realize the fact that they are losing their productivity at every sphere and increasing their stress level. This stress further zaps our concentration and makes us frustrated, depressed and irritable. Stress not only gives us unnerving and harrowing experiences but also harm our relationships at professional and personal front.

However, the key to bring balance in our life and decrease the amount of stress level is “yoga and Meditation”. You must have noticed that when someone feels happy his/her sitting posture is different, and when someone feels sad, the sitting posture gets different, you sometimes even manage to analyze the person’s mood by theirs sitting posture.

Similarly, while performing yoga, your postures play a very vital role. By consciously getting your body into a particular posture, you can indeed elevate your consciousness and can transform the way you feel, think and experience life.

This is a well-known fact that your thoughts have incredible power to either ruin your life or make it wonderful heaven. The world is projection of our own mind; the external environment is the reflection of the environment in our selves. As our emotions, mind and nature are all in synch; a perfect balance is most required. We lost our control due to stress, tensions, etc. which leads us to negative thoughts, and we look for the solution in outer environment believing that nothing is well around us. Above everything else, we first need to clear our inner environment which is polluted with stress, negative emotions, negative thoughts, tensions, frustrations, etc.

Hence, the key to reinforcing our inner balance and harmonize or tune our outer world is yogic science.

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Cleaning the inner environment with Yoga

By devoting few minutes in yoga or meditation, our emotions and mind become more subtle and refined. Our thinking process and our outlook towards day to day incidents and life get transformed.

Simply sitting in a posture with calm mind and focusing on breath can give astonishing results to the beginners who do not have the know-how of yoga, On the other hand; stretching your body in a right posture increases the amount of flexibility and reduces rigidity in body which directly reflects in your behavior, mind and soul.

Power of food and yogic diet 

The food we consume daily shapes our thinking process as like other organs, our brain too is nourished by the food we take. Impure food brings forth negative thinking in the mind, on the contrary pure and healthy diets that include fruits and vegetables foster positive thinking. It becomes essential to adopt good eating habits if we want to derive maximum out of yoga. The benefits of practicing yoga and vegetarian diet has been known to Indian sages and sneers since ages and now modern-day scientists has attested to the fact that yoga and vegetarian diet is not only essential for healthy mind but can also ward off life-threatening diseases. Practicing yoga and vegetarian diet fosters good mental as well as physical health. By bringing yoga into our life, we bring precious relaxation for our body, and good food compliments it and makes our state of mind more relaxing and contented.

Yoga practitioners should always prefer vegetarian diet as it helps improves health, increases vitality and gives calm state of mind and healthy body. Wheat, barley, milk, cereals, almonds, honey, tomatoes, cheese, butter, good amount of food and sugar candy – all the wholesome and natural products of pure environment.

Ishwara Pranidhana 

Those who set about practicing Ishwara Pranidhana consider themselves as toys in the hands of God or feel like children lying in the lap of universal mother. In that case, we go unperturbed by what happens to us as we bestow our trust in the divine who knows the whys and wherefores of everything and understand what we need better than us. Once we surrender ourselves to the will of almighty, our worldly desire to amass wealth or put ourselves in strife and struggles cease to exist for we know that God will provide us everything we actually need. Our old pattern of thinking that is modeled on our doubts, fears and insecurities no longer exist instead new positive shoots of acceptance and hope emerge and bloom into beautiful flowers of compassion and love for our fellow travelers.

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AK Mishra's Art of Success for Parenting - Helping parents raise kids to...

Proper parenting is vitally important to shape the future of kids so parents ought to infuse appropriate and positive behavior in their children. Help your kids internalise all the positive emotions, give your child the required time, make him/her feel loved and special in order to help them grow as happy, successful and lovable adults. AK Mishra's Art of Success training sessions endeavor to help parents chalk up right parenting skills which enable them to pare down parenting flaws and condition their children positively.



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World Day against Human Trafficking - Lets eradicate this heinous crime

30^th July 2016 marks the “world day against trafficking” that reminds us that we all have to come together with the strong will to bring positive change and to eradicate crime & human trafficking from this beautiful world. The General assembly of United Nation declared the day, looking at the necessity to raise awareness about the situation and state of mind of the victims of human trafficking and for the protection of their rights.

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We all human beings have equal rights regardless of gender, race, age, origin, case or class, income or property, social status etc. And we all have equal responsibilities to keep our nation peaceful and crime free. Undoubtedly crime is taking a rise in our country, and each and every common man is responsible for this, as no one makes the courage to raise his/her voice. In order to bring a positive change in or society, we as individual have to be the change.

Human trafficking is a crime that is exploiting children, men and women for several selfish purposes including sex and forced labour. As stated by UN, more than 21 million people are victims of forced labour all over the world. This also includes people who are victims of human trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation. Slavery, in both its ancient and modern forms is not only shameful, but is an intolerable act.

Let’s join our hands together to overcome this transnational threat by supporting and protecting victims while pursuing and prosecuting the criminals. On the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, let us resolve to act as one in the name of justice and dignity for all.’

Explore unchartered depths and dimensions of Success

There are a lot of things around us that can inspire us to achieve phenomenal success; Seeing other successful people, quotes from great people, and even the sheer beauty of nature reminds us how lucky we are to be alive, but above all these, it's we who need to realize the unconditional potential we possess and our limitless abilities which make us incredibly competent to achieve  our desired success. AK Mishra's Art of Success training sessions help individuals explore unchartered dimensions of success.  

Explore life beyond boundaries - Art of Success training session by Success Guru AK Mishra at Amity University

With the motive to encourage our young generation to explore life beyond boundaries, AK Mishra’s Art of Success is going to organize an orientation session on its foundation course “Take Charge of Life for Teenagers” at Amity University. The seminar will be held at the auditorium of Amity University, greater Noida for the students pursuing Political science. An introduction session on Take Charge of life for teenagers by Success Guru AK Mishra will begin at 3pm and will continue until 5pm on 22^nd July 2016.

The session will aim to inculcate in participants the life skills of vision, passion and strongly encourage them to take charge of their lives. The objective of the session is to help students realize their deep-rooted desires and get introduced with their unconditional potential and abilities to reach their desired heights of success. Furthermore, the session will also help participants in dealing with their emotions and confusions in life while assisting them in setting up a right career path.

Success Guru AK Mishra, Inventor and Director of AK Mishra’s Art of Success, being the chief speaker of the seminar will also underline his trademark model, “Human Software Development Programme”, wherein he will explain how to re-program one’s mind with the extraordinary traits to move beyond the conventional boundaries and experience an unexplored world of possibilities. Apart from this, the session will also encourage participants to fully engage in learning process of life and maximize their knowledge through several experiences of life in order to grow wiser and judicious individual.

The session’s approach will be very interactive aided by inspirational videos, movie clippings, motivational songs, interactions, and a variety of other preaching techniques to keep participants wholly involved throughout the session. Students will be encouraged to share their thoughts, views, on-going issues, inherent desires, inbuilt fears and AK Mishra will interact to provide them a clear picture while answering their concerns. He will convert their negative perceptions towards the problems through problem-solving approaches while helping them setting up right goals in life.

When talked to Mr. AK Mishra on this, he said “personal empowerment and Taking Charge of life is about looking at who you are and becoming more aware about oneself as a unique individual. It also involves developing right confidence and strength to recognize one’s true potential and fulfill desired goals in life. Everyone has strengths, weaknesses, and a range of skills that are used in everyday situations, but all often people remain unaware of them or undervalue their true abilities. Therefore, with my training session, I emphasize on making every individual aware about the unique abilities they possess to create wonders in their lives. I wish all the students of Amity university a very all the best for their future success.”

Art of Success for Teenagers - Age to explore unchartered waters

Besides countless numbers of peer pressures, emotional ups and downs, clashes with parents; teenage is still one of the most wonderful phases of life. All a teenager wants is to be what he/she really is but adherence to the values and principles which he/she received from the parents is vitally important. AK Mishra's Art of Success encourages Teenagers to be stylish, Be Loving, Be Trendy, be what you are, but do not forget to be a respectful child of your loving and proud parents.