VAISHALI GILL
Self-esteem, sometimes referred to as self-respect, is the belief in one's own value or skills. Low self-esteem is defined as a lack of belief in one's own worth. Self-esteem is shaped during the course of a person's life; it will rise and fall but will essentially remain constant. Your self-esteem is a product of your perceptions and experiences, and how you have been treated by life, people and circumstances. As you grow up, you build a self-image based upon your experience, beliefs and worldview, which in turn shapes your self-esteem. Your self-image or your thoughts and beliefs about you become reflected in your thinking and behaviour, which is why it is necessary to have healthy self-esteem. High self-esteem makes people test their limits and aim for self-actualization goals, while low self-esteem makes them believe that they do not deserve success and happiness and settle with their lot or for less. Some people suffer from chronically low self-esteem. Nothing seems to uplift their spirits or make them feel good. It is as if they have given up control and condemned themselves to a life of limited achievement and expectations. Knowingly or unknowingly, they also limit their success so that they do not have to face unnecessary problems or endanger their safety and peace of mind by attracting negative attention and criticism from others. Because of low self-esteem many people do not even try to improve themselves or their circumstances. Although success is supposed to boost self-esteem, in some cases it does the opposite. If people had difficult childhood and were made to feel worthless and useless while they were growing up, success may only reinforce their belief that their success was mainly due to luck and other extraneous factors, and they do not really deserve it. Since our goals, relationships, expectations, attitude, behaviour, success and failures depend upon it and since it is important to our wellbeing, peace and happiness, one must resolve the problem of low self-esteem. This video will give the steps to come out of your self esteem and reach to high self-esteem.