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Introduction

Self image is how you see or perceive yourself in relation to others. This may refer to how you compare yourself physically with others, or may be more about how you visualize yourself, which could also be called self-concept. Your self image is very critical as it can seriously affect your self-esteem and confidence. Your self image may be altered by how people perceive or treat you, and depending on your confidence level, this affects how they relate to you. It can affect your relationships either positively or negatively.

Self image includes:

- How you consider yourself physically - How your inner personality comes across - What sort of person you think you are - What you imagine others think about you - How high you rate yourself or how much you think others rate or like you

Self-concept or self image is the inner mental picture we preserve of ourselves - it’s who we think we are and may not necessarily be true. The incredible thing is that often other people perceive us in a way that doesn’t agree with our own self image. Each of us communicates out of our self-perceived notion about ourselves.

Your own self image is composed of your natural in-born temperament and input from other people like your immediate family, instructors, friends, enemies and, most importantly, yourself. It takes some amount of time and a constant message to finally influence how a person feels about him or her “self.”

So if you want to improve your self image, first change your self-talk; those ‘petty’ thing you say or think about yourself so mercilessly like - I will never be able to do so, I may never win, etc. To modify or improve your self-image requires that other people see you as an important personality and then you provide them a consistent, credible message to them over time. Changing your self image is not effortless, and the person involved in the change must believe that improvement can occur.

Influencing Factors

A individual’s self image is the mental image, normally of a type that is quite defiant to change, that portrays not only particulars that are potentially obtainable to objective analysis by others like your weight, height, skin color, IQ etc., but also bits and pieces that have been learned by that individual, either from private experiences or by incorporating the opinions of other people.

Creating a positive self image can be a very daunting task, particularly when family members or general society uphold pessimistic evaluations about you, that happens to be imprecise. The consequences of which are not only callous for the sufferer, who may develop self-hatred, but also brutal for the society.