How Media And Self Esteem In Girls Affects |
We know how important is to have good self esteem and self confidence of ourselves to achieve whatever we want and create powerful relationships with other people. Its known that people who lack of self esteem have trouble getting positive relationships with other people and are afraid of doing many things that could improve their life.
TNow, i want to tell you how media affects self esteem in girls and why you should be aware of it. When im referring to media im talking about tv, magazines, internet, radio, newspapers, movies and all those mediums of communications. For years the most powerful media has been the television and movies, now the internet is also getting a lot of attention.
In many of the tv shows and movies we see every month there are many messages that are shown to us, that most of the times we are not aware of. Through tv we are shown how to dress, what is the latest fashion, who are the most beautiful girls, how you should exercise, how you should eat and thousands of other messages that many times are not true or correct.
For example we are always shown beautiful skinny models and actresses that appear on tv and movies all the time, they are shown as the role model of the ideal girl, while they are advertising junk food in their commercials. What happens is that many girls take that role model as their own and want to be like them, they start to feel insecure and un confident with their body because they feel that they are not like all the other girls in tv.
You might not think consciously of it, but you are adapting that behavior and you get worried to lose weight and buy the best dresses. Is not bad if you want to improve your image in any way, however you should not base your self esteem on it, those models are not living a normal life, most of the times they have a very regulated life and diet that they have to follow for years or they ar fired.
That is just one way in which self esteem is affected by media, there are many others like being the most popular, the most rude, they show good people as weak and bad people as strong, so those are bad messages that we acquire unconsciously and can affect our self esteem.
For example, in tv they show a successful person as being very rich, surrounded by women and having parties every day. That is not the case, there are people that live incredible successful and happy lives that dont need a lot of money, are not interested in parties and have just the woman they love.
Those are some examples im sure you can find more, next time you watch a movie or tv show, be aware of how they are affecting your beliefs and dont let it affect your self esteem.
Quick Tip #1
Read the Biographies or motivational stories from people that had success despite anything and every obstacle |
Quick Tip #2
Write your goals, what do you want to accomplish in the next 30 days then make the commintment to follow your plan every day. |
Quick Tip #3
Face your fears, if there is something that you dont want to do because you are afraid of failure then just do it, the more you do it, the more you will reduce the fear |
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