What most nurturing parents will do is tell their child how great they are. That they’re unique, special one of a kind, they’re an outstanding human. Then they’ll gloat that little Jimmy is so athletic, or he could count to 100, or Anna is so cute, to everyone who’ll listen.
Then we actually begin to believe and become proud of ourselves, that we are truly special people.
As we then go through the passage of school, begin to grow a mind of our own with opinions, we gasp. Hey wait …
Everything that happens to us on a daily basis, what we do is judge or measure ourselves, this either good or bad on how we did, that’s our self-esteem. This measurement constantly shifts, becoming a difficult moving target to meter.
The improvement of self-esteem has also become a multimillion dollar industry on how to foster it. Products which promises to pump you up, to improve your feelings of low self-worth to glorious heights. But what is the true definition of self-esteem, what’s its functions and the radical dimensions it provides.…