Researchers at McGill University have created several online activities called Self Esteem Games, helping people build self confidence and stay on the positive side of life. The games force you to recognize happy faces and/or your own name, creating a positive association to yourself and others in your mind. In other words, the exercises foster an individual’s ability to recognize and focus on positive environmental stimuli (i.e., smiling people) rather than the negative, allowing the players to practice having a positive or more optimistic attentional bias.
The games are easy, fun, fast and somewhat meditative…something that would be appropriate for pretty much anyone to do on their own, or perhaps at the beginning or end of a therapy session…or even as homework after a therapy session is over. Homework that’s fun? Well, that IS something to be excited about!
where can the games be found?? Sounds like it is worth trying.
Hi Sharon,
You can click on the link attached to the words, “Self Esteem Games” within the above post, or you can go here:
http://selfesteemgames.mcgill.ca/index.htm