09/10/2005
What does Self Esteem do?
I was just thinking about this the other day ... I
have been away for some consulting work and haven't been so close to my blog ...
but I have been thinking about self esteem.
It's perhaps a little too easy to just accept that
high and low self esteem are 'things' that we must address. But why do we have
self esteem at all - what is the purpose of appraising our own self worth,
of evaluating ourselves?
I think it comes from our evolution. It is
suggested (I can supply academic references but won't for the sanity of this
blog!) that we evolved 'consciousness' to help us understand our neighbors ...
to evaluate enemies and to second guess their actions.
And also for us to evaluate ourselves - to 'step
outside' of our own doingness and try to work out how we could be
better.
Balanced carefully, this has obviously served us
well over many thousands of years.
But maybe our modern day society has slowly
encroached on this internal mechanism by forcing us to continuously evaluate
ourselves ... are we OK? Is our hair glossy enough? Do we have enough shiny new
things?
The relentless assault on our unworthiness can
perhaps even beta some people into feeling less worthy than they truly
are.
The good news is, the same internal evaluation
mechanism can be used to repel these unwanted comparisons and its an easy to
learn skill. (Yes, my free self esteem
workbook and e-course will definitely help!).
All the best!
Robert
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