LOVE With Confidence! Ep.101

Today begins our series, “LOVE With Confidence”, our theme for Season 5! This episode introduces our theme and outlines the upcoming journey that we will take together through our energetic realms of experience - body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit - to deepen our capacity to love others and ourselves with confidence!  

Our mission to help balance the energetic realms - body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit - is based partly on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs; our spiritual energy centers - the Chakra system; and the Eight Dimensions of Wellness from SAMHSA. In this episode, I provide information to highlight the psychological foundation of the concept: loving with confidence. I offer considerations to highlight why the combination of  love with confidence is important in our present lives, to reflect on where the concept comes from, and to provide action steps including Metta - a practice in loving-kindness - that you can perform to move forward with intentional vision to cultivate and enhance your LOVE with confidence!

#101 | Season 5, Ep. 2

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Episode 101 Notes - Links and References:

Welcome to Season 5!!! I am so excited to connect with you here.

True confidence comes from a deeply rooted sense of trust, assurance.

04:50 - Confidence Defined: “The feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust; The state of feeling certain about the truth of something; A feeling of self-assurance arising from one’s appreciation of one’s own abilities or qualities

https://www.google.com/search?q=confidence+definition&oq=confid&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0i433i512j46i433i512j0i433i512j0i20i263i433i512j69i61l2j69i60.3425j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 

06:00 - Confidence is connected to positive outcomes personally and relationally. (Campbell, W. K., Rudich, E. A., & Sedikides, C. (2002). Narcissism, self-esteem, and the positivity of self-views: Two portraits of self-love. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(3), 358-368.) https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~crsi/Campbell%20Rudich%20%20Sedikides%202002.pdf 

11:00 - One of our main services here is PEAK Performance Consultation and Coaching.High self-esteem and confidence are correlated.

11:30 - Snacks+Apps: 

SipNShop Event at Visionistas By Design Wellness Boutique in Nazareth Economic Downtown Commission on February 3, 2023. Our next SipNShop is scheduled for May 5 - Cinco de Mayo!

My gratitude for the opportunity to connect with amazing friends, family - my loves - recently.

14:30 - Invitation to reflect on your time of joy, fun, connection with the people you love and a friendly reminder to make it happen with a call, a message, a zoom date that might be overdue.

16:00 - Love With Confidence.  Why is it important?

In the Five Factor Model (Openness to Experience, Neuroticism, Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness; originally posited by Costa and McCrae) for personality, self-esteem (correlates positively with) is connected to: Openness to experience (curiosity, imaginative, creative, original); Extraversion (outgoing, self-confident, affectionate, joiner); Conscientiousness (hard-working, dependable); Emotional adjustment and stability.  In Relationships people with high self-esteem/ high self-confidence: Typically have positive evaluations of their romantic partners; Report higher relationship satisfaction compared to  people with lower levels of self-esteem; and Positive views of self and partners, Campbell et al., 2002)

19:30 -  As referenced in Episode 100: Celebrate With Love!: https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-100 We help you boost your energy and confidence in order to align your energy - body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit - with your values, mission, and vision with our Refreshing You! Energy+Confidence Consultations:  https://www.drlyz.com/peak-performance 

22:45 - Psychological and Spiritual Foundations of our focus on the energetic realms: Body, Mind, Heart, Soul, and Spirit:

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (Abraham Maslow): Physiological, Safety, Love and Belonging, Esteem, and Self Actualization https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html 

SAMHSA’s 8 dimensions of wellness: (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) Social, Emotional, Physical, Intellectual, Recreational, Occupational, Spiritual, Financial, and Environmental. https://store.samhsa.gov/product/Learn-the-Eight-Dimensions-of-Wellness-Poster-/SMA16-4953 

Spiritual Energy Centers - The Chakras: Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third Eye, and Crown. (For more on the Chakras: https://youtu.be/rFPJe41j55w )

31:30 - Invitation to reflect on the information and tune in body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit.

Outline for Season 5 - Love your…Body, Mind, Heart, Soul, and Spirit …with Confidence; Guests to help us become more self-aware, loving of ourselves; Love Stories - lessons, inspiration and enchantment from romantic couples; Miscellaneous and Spontaneous and FUN!

36:30 - Signs+Synchronicities - when preparing for Season 5, planning the outline and episodes, one of my morning meditations was Metta: Loving Kindness (on the Insight Timer App: https://insig.ht/fsvbAhoowkb?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share )

Action Steps: 

Practice Metta: Loving Kindness - In metta meditation, we direct lovingkindness toward ourselves and then, in a sequence of expansion, towards somebody we love already, toward somebody neutral, toward somebody we have difficulty with. And ultimately toward all beings everywhere without distinction. (Sharon Salzberg, Radiant Mind https://tricycle.org/magazine/metta-practice/ )

Devote a period of time, energy, and attention to you at the start of your day.