My Declaration of Self Esteem

You can't touch it, but it affects how you feel. You can't see it, but its there when you look at yourself in the mirror. You cant hear it, but its there every time you talk about yourself. What is this important but mysterious thing? It's your self esteem is instilled in us during our youth. There are two types of self esteem. There is high self esteem which is when you feel good about yourself, and then there is low self esteem which is when you feel bad about yourself. Being constantly criticized by family, friends, and society tends ti slowly strip us of our feelings of self worth. Our low self esteem strips us of our self and confidence to make even the smallest decisions. We think little of ourselves, and feel we are not worth a penny and do not deserve to be happy. High self esteem is good nost of the tim, but some people have too high self esteems and they could come on strong. People may call refer to these type as "cocky" or "annoying". But since low self esteem is still worse than the higher one, lets see what solutions there are to fixing it.

I am me. In all the world, therr is no one else exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no ine adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of ne is authentically mine because I chose it. I own everything about me: my body, including everything it does; my kind, including all its thoughts and ideas; ny eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they may be: anger,joy, frustration, love disappointment, excitement; my mouth and all the words that come out of it: polite, sweet or rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud or soft, and all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own all of my triumphs and successes, all of my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimatrly acquainted with nr. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with me. I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know. But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for the solution of the puzzles and ways to find out more about me.

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a givrn moment in time is mine. This id authentic and represents where I am at that moment in tine: When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfit. I can discard that which is unfitting and keep that which proved fitting and invert something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear,feel,thinj, say and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me and therefore. I can engineer me. I am me and I am okay.