Online Class: Building Self Esteem

Cultivating Self-Worth: Understanding, Recognizing, and Nurturing Healthy Self-Esteem

In today's fast-paced, comparative society, maintaining robust self-esteem is more critical than ever. Recent research reveals that low self-esteem is a significant precursor to several mental and physical health challenges. In fact, according to a 2021 study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, individuals with persistent low self-esteem are at a higher risk for depression, anxiety, and even cardiovascular diseases.

Your self-worth plays a crucial role in your overall well-being. By investing time in understanding and nurturing it now, you're paving the way for a healthier, happier future. This comprehensive, self-paced course delves deep into the world of self-esteem, offering insights, real-life scenarios, and proactive strategies.

Whether you're battling the chains of diminished self-worth, supporting someone who is, or are simply proactive about mental wellness, this course is tailor-made for you. Enroll now to embark on a transformative journey towards a brighter, self-assured future!

Lesson 1: The Essence of Self-Esteem

• Overview: Delve into the intricate nuances of self-esteem. Understand its definition, its foundations, and its paramount importance in the realm of personal development.

  Example: Jane, a top-tier executive, seemingly has it all. However, her childhood memories of being constantly compared to her peers still haunt her, causing bouts of imposter syndrome at work.

Lesson 2: The Pervasive Shadow of Low Self-Esteem

• Overview: Explore the far-reaching impacts of low self-esteem, both mentally and physically. From strained relationships to compromised career growth, this lesson uncovers the hidden implications of diminished self-worth.

  Example: Despite being a talented artist, Alex shies away from showcasing his artwork due to a singular criticism he faced years ago, illustrating the deep-rooted impacts of low self-esteem.

Lesson 3: Decoding the Signs: Recognizing Low Self-Esteem

• Overview: Low self-esteem isn't always evident. This lesson teaches you to recognize the subtler signs and symptoms, aiding in early intervention and support.

  Example: Lisa, an extroverted social butterfly, surprisingly showcases symptoms of low self-esteem through her constant need for validation.

Lesson 4: The Renaissance: Methods to Rebuild and Enhance Self-Esteem

• Overview: Dive into actionable strategies and practices that can rejuvenate one's self-esteem. From cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to daily affirmations, discover a plethora of tools at your disposal.

  Example: After attending therapy, Sam incorporated daily gratitude practices, transforming his perspective and elevating his self-worth.

Lesson 5: Sustaining Self-Worth: A Lifelong Commitment

• Overview: Self-esteem is not a one-time achievement but a lifelong journey. Learn the art of continuous self-love, ensuring that your self-esteem remains resilient amidst life's challenges.

Remember, self-esteem is the cornerstone of one's mental and emotional well-being. This course offers you a holistic roadmap to understand, protect, and elevate this invaluable asset. Secure a future enriched with confidence and self-assuredness by enrolling today!

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Understanding Self-Esteem

Where Does Self-Esteem Come From?

The self-esteem that you have for yourself is based on many different elements in your life, and the attitude that you hold toward those elements. These include:

• The value you believe you have as a person
• The job you have in your life (tasks or employment)
• Your achievements
• The way you believe that others see you
• Your purpose in life
• Your situation in the world
• Your success potential
• Your strengths and your weaknesses
• Your social status and your relations with other people
• Your independence and ability to be autonomous and self-supporting.

Naturally, these aren't the only elements that will impact your self-esteem in your life, but they are the most commonly observed.

Though there have been hundreds, perhaps thousands of books written in the past about self-esteem, it is important to understand how very personal the topic is. No book or person can tell you how to build or maintain good self-esteem. The only way that you can achieve these outcomes is through willing self-discovery and self-examination. This will take time, but as you will see, it is well worth the effort.

The Importance of Self-Esteem

As human beings, our entire experience with the world is based on different relationships, and the attitudes that we form about those relationships. In fact, we use each of these relationships to build a consciousness about the potentials and possibilities that exist in our world.

As we are forming our notions about the behaviors and relationships we have with objects, animals, and other people, we are also creating an impression of ourselves. This includes how you think you are, and how you think you'd react in any given situation.

Throughout your life as you are faced with obstacles and decisions, through your actions, reactions, and thoughts (or lack of thoughts), you will begin to build a strong sense of self, which will continue to grow your entire life. Furthermore, you will begin behaving in accordance with that judgment that you have of yourself, and this will impact the future decisions, choices, and thoughts that you will have.

All of these judgments and behaviors add up to create your overall self-evaluation and self-concept, which creates your self-esteem. The self esteem is this concept - as a whole - which we form of ourselves. Think of it as a reputation that you have with yourself.

The overall concept of self-esteem is usually broken down into two parts by experts, so that they may better understand its development, improvement, and maintenance. These two parts are:

Your self-confidence or efficacy

Your sense of self-respect and self-worth.

Self-Confidence and Efficacy

As you see, hear, feel, and in other ways process all of the information that is always being sent to us from the "outside" world and our social environment, you are consistently experiencing an "inside" state of being in control, of efficacy, and of an ability to take in, use, and handle all of that incoming information. It is this state that leads you to direct yourself within your environment.

In a person lacking self-confidence/efficacy, s/he would instead feel helplessness, inefficacy, powerlessness, and the sensation of being completely overwhelmed.

Living both with and without self-confidence and efficacy is something children experience very early in their development. Already at this early stage, it is instinct for children to value their feelings of self-confidence and efficacy, and disvalue any sensations of helplessness. This instinct is further encouraged because the feelings of helplessness often occur alongside sensations of physical of psychological pain. Conversely, the feelings of confidence, efficacy, and control frequently occur alongside pleasure - or at least a lacking of a pain sensation.

Self-Respect and Self-Worth

Throughout our lives, beginning very young, we learn about the world around us and ourselves within it. During this time, we develop certain expectations about specific actions that will lead to specific types of consequences. This is what allows us to create habits and live in a world that we can understand and in which we can feel comfortable.

If this time is consistent with your perception of reality, continues to be life-enhancing, and remains faithful to your moral principles, then your expectations of the consequences of your actions will be positive ones. This means that you will have developed a sense of worthiness. You know that you "deserve" your happiness.

Conversely, if your experiences work in contrast to our perception of reality, your behaviors are self-destructive, and are in violation of your moral principals, then you will expect that consequences of your actions will be negative. Instead of feeling worthy, you will feel inappropriate in your life, and that you don't deserve happiness.

Self-esteem, therefore, is a matter of experiencing different feelings, and knowing that you are competent for living in your reality, and that you deserve happiness.

This being said, it is important to note that true self-esteem is not something that depends on the approval of those around you. Of course, it is natural to want other people to have good opinions of you, however, this is not the real deciding factor for building self-esteem. Only you can give yourself self-esteem.

Should you link your self-esteem to the opinions, judgment, and approval of other people, it means that your self-esteem is already hurting, and that you're at risk of having it slip even further.

As you can see, self-esteem isn't the same thing as just feeling positive about yourself. It is not the same as egotism, conceitedness, narcissism, arrogance, or any desire to feel like you're "better" than someone else. In fact, these attitudes can actually be destructive to genuine self-esteem.

Genuine self-esteem is something that takes time to develop, and is consistently maintained. Therefore, it isn't the same thing as the temporary, sudden boost that you may feel after a promotion or a marriage proposal. It is a long-term reputation that you keep with yourself, and an overall attitude that must be nurtured and maintained.