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You
likely have an idea of a definition of self-esteem. A self-esteem
definition could be anything describing feeling bad about yourself, or
good.
One of the main causes of feeling not good enough in my experience is a
lack of self-acceptance. It is not related to your achievements
or what you do or have in the external world.
Self-Acceptance
Reading and
understanding a definition won't get you
higher self-esteem, however you are searching because at the moment you
don't like your whole self and we have to start somewhere.
By the time you finish this page I will have shared with you my simple
definition of self-esteem.
As usual when people are faced with a problem, they turn to their
intellect and try and understand it like it was a puzzle or crossword.
Words can not easily change your experience, however words can often
reach inside and grab us and make the complicated simple. From that
point on you know the issue and even though it might come through
intellect, that understanding can open doors for you and lead you to a
transformation.
Poetry and Poetic
Just like poetry can reflect your truth back to you, so can a well
worded quote or definition.
I like to keep away from language and words that sound OK when put
together but in reality doesn't point you towards taking control of
your experience of life.
Once such definition of self-esteem might be...
A feeling of self-worth, self-confidence, and
self-respect.
Sounds OK but doesn't have anything new for you.
Or try...
How you feel about yourself, how you feel about who
you are, the way you act, and how you look.
Again, doesn't say anything to answer the question 'what is
self-esteem?'
So what is a more useful definition of self-esteem?
Remember that no one sentence or quote can capture the essence of a
human experience, however I would like to hopefully simplify your
thoughts and give your mind something to grasp hold of... Self-esteem
is a product of the completeness of
your acceptance of your human experience.
Think about a condition that has an obvious scale such as temperature.
Temperature can be cold or it can be hot, or it can be anywhere along
that scale.
This is a more accurate way of thinking about this rather than the
normal way that hot is
the opposite of cold.
We call it opposite but it really is a scale of temperature.
Something only exists as hot for us in the context of temperature.
So using the same analogy, if we called the vertical axis of a graph
self-esteem and
labeled the bottom of the scale 'denial of your human experience' and
labeled the far right 'acceptance of your human experience' we might
have a
definition of self-esteem that not only tells you what a cause maybe,
but also what you can do to improve self-esteem.
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