Self-esteem is a powerful human need. It is a basic human need that makes an essential contribution to the life process; it is indispensable to normal and healthy development; it has survival value.

Lacking positive self-esteem, our psychological growth is stunted. Positive self-esteem operates as the immune system of consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life’s adversities is diminished.
We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have
more power over us than positives.

If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, energizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements. It allows us to experience satisfaction.

Self-efficacy and self-respect are the dual pillars of healthy self-esteem. Lacking either one, self-esteem is impaired, because of their fundamentality. They represent primary meanings of self-esteem.

the experience of self-efficacy

The experience of self-efficacy generates the sense of control over one’s life that we associate with well-being, contrasted with being a passive spectator
and a victim of events.

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self-respect

The experience of self-respect makes possible a benevolent, as a community with species capable of awareness, we depend for our survival and well-being on the guidance of our form of consciousness, the form uniquely human.

This form of consciousness is what I considered the term mind. Its essence is our ability to reason, which means to grasp relationships. Our lives and well-being depend on the appropriate exercise of our minds.
Mind is more than immediate explicit awareness. It is acomplex architecture of structures and processes. It includes more than the processes described sometimes as “left-brain” activity. It includes mental life, the subconscious, the intuitive, also sometimes is associated with the “right brain.”

Mind is all that by means!

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sal