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How You Feel About Yourself
What is self-esteem? Feeling good about yourself. Belief in oneself. Other thoughts? How we regard our self. Is it a popular idea for most people? In my experience, people tend to disdain the notion to one degree or another. What about you? People like to be humble. Or at least claim it. So no matter how…
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Tapestry of Meaning
So my question, can we live an idle life? Patient yes, but not idle. I think it’s unhealthy to be idle. I don’t think it’s in our nature to do so. Why wouldn’t it be, if life is more or less meant to be vegetative? If we are just meant to survive, reproduce and expire?…
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Poor Self Esteem
If our self-image stemmed from our honest experience of self, what would that be like? The answer to this question is the essence of Gnosticism in the nutshell. Bloated egos? Bloated egos come from a magnification of the self-image to cover up the sensation of self just as you might be tempted to swing an…
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Maturing Childhood Symbols
Going back to what I referred to earlier, we create symbols to give ourselves a sense of security, meaning and clarity, continuity to life, and well, the adult symbols tend to break us down rather than nurture our sense of well-being. But ever notice even very young children make symbols? The teddy bear becomes a…
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Play With Me
Shall we take another childhood notion and see what it looks like naturally matured? The childhood notion of inviting friends to play? That simple request, play with me, allowed to mature we would see that there are things we want in addition to company, as an addition, not as a replacement. We would look to…
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Color the World
So shall we explore another childhood notion? Coloring! Coloring. We want to be able to see out in our world what is in our head. This is why children often “use the wrong color.” It’s not the wrong color. They want to see that character with a green face, or the tree if it were…
Category: Self Esteem
Self-esteem is not the same as self-image. Self-images can be really grandiose, but self-esteem be really low. Self-image is how you think about yourself. Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself.
You have moments where your behaviour is guided by genuine self-esteem. You can’t help it. It’s reflective. Those moments when you get just a little bit silly, maybe you’re tired, or maybe you’re playing with a child, maybe just spending time with a close friend, but you let your ideas of who you are go, and experience who you are. It feels good, doesn’t it?
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“Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
“Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it” Gloria Steinem (b.1935)