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Self-esteem

Can Fasting Build Self-esteem?

February 27, 2014 By Lisa Hill DiFusco

Woman with her arms raisedThe notion of “sacrifice” is oft unheard of in today’s society. Giving up, or intentionally delaying something pleasurable for a greater good or purpose, doesn’t quite make the front page headlines, or impress most friends. But the act of engaging in delayed gratification or giving something up does build our self-esteem and speak loudly to our soul.

Former Newark mayor and 2013 elected Senator, Cory A. Booker, illustrated this when he chose, after everything else failed,  to fast from food in an effort to break illegal drug trafficking in his district’s neighborhood surrounding poor high-rise projects. Twelve large men, correctional officers from a nearby facility, showed up to protect him from the anger, stones, sticks, food, and feces thrown at his tent the first night. The result…after two weeks of fasting, hundreds of people from all walks of life came together to take their city back…citizens with imams, rabbis, priests, and ministers prayed for peace and activated a plan to improve their neighborhood.

Cory’s act of delayed gratification resulted in great good. When we positively influence others, our self-esteem rises.

Does fasting or sacrificing build self-esteem? Try it and let us know what you think.

Filed Under: Emotional Health, Health, Holistic Health, Intentional Leadership, Self-awareness Tagged With: Cory Booker, Emotional Health, Fasting, Physical Health, Rochester NY, self-empowerment, Self-esteem, The LightHeart Institute

Self-acceptance

July 2, 2013 By Lisa Hill DiFusco

Book-Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?
The proper nourishment for personal growth is a loving acceptance and encouragement by others not rejection and impatient suggestions for improvement. Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. We have said that personal growth resembles physical growth: all the energies and tendencies are there.
But there is in most of us a civil war that stunts our personal growth. It is our inner struggle for self-acceptance.

Excerpt from Will the Real Me Please Stand Up? by John Powell, S. J.

Filed Under: Emotional Health, Health, Self-awareness, Self-care Tagged With: Holistic Psychotherapy, John Powell S.J., Personal Growth, Rochester NY, Self-esteem, The LightHeart Institute, Will the Real Me Please Stand Up by John Powell S.J.

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