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Bill Bullard said, “Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge?is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world.?

Our society seems to admire highly opinionated people. People with strong opinions, stated with energy, come across as dynamic and knowledgeable. In a world where people spend a great deal of money on books and seminars about self-esteem, it makes sense that many would think this way. Additionally, the media encourages us to live on a diet of sensationalism; and this seems to lead us to the computer term: Garbage in, garbage out.

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There was a year when my life was especially troubled, and I began to walk a nature trail each day. I walked many miles, for my health supposedly, but in reality I went to think out all the thoughts that troubled my head and to find a little peace. That path became healing to me.

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Are you extremely shy in social situations? Do you get that sinking feeling in your stomach in stressful situations at work or with someone you are attracted to? Are losing your sanity with negative self-talk why you can’t seem to do what you really want to do? Is your appetite nonexistent? Have sleepless nights beating yourself over disappointing results?

There are many reasons for the symptoms listed above but I am really talking about the damages caused by low self-esteem whether in your relationship, at work or in the real world.

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When our self esteem is low, we tend to have the habit of picking at ourselves. Little self-criticisms enter our thoughts constantly, and a lot of the time we don’t even realize we’re doing it! We just feel crumby. It’s simply a bad habit to pick at yourself, but since that makes us feel sad and incompetent it limits us from doing all we can in life. When we notice we’re doing self-criticizing, we can argue with the criticism and that helps. But if each evening we just think of three things we can feel good about ourselves, that would go a long way to building a more positive habit of looking at ourselves in terms of the good, rather than the bad.

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Are you happy with yourself - with who you are and what you are doing? If you want high self esteem this is very important. Here’s what you need to be happy with yourself:

a) Don’t compete with others. Life is not a race. Set your own standards and try to reach them, don’t be scared to fail and accept your own limitations. Competing with others will drain you and will take away your self esteem because there will always be someone better than you. Decide on your path and stick to it.

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A simplified definition many people often use for the word “self-esteem” is that it’s “How we feel about ourselves.” But self-esteem includes broader and more important parts of ourselves, so I would prefer to define it this way:

High, or natural self-esteem is manifested in a wonderful feeling of inner-balance, grounded on self-acceptance and a healthy, comforting self-respect towards yourself.

This is very different from self-confidence which is grounded in what you know you can deal with and accomplish.
We can, for example, act in a very self-confident manner without our having high self-esteem.

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Since the beginning of human existence, teachers/gurus have imparted great truths regarding the cause of the pain people experience in their lives. These truths point in the opposite direction than where most people look. Your enemy is not who you think it is. The adversary in your life, the thorn in your side—the source of anger that compels you to blame someone or something—is not what you believe it to be. It is not something ‘out there.’ It is something ‘in here;’ an inner enemy.

You can no doubt name a hundred issues that you think is your enemy, but the enemy is not:

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